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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Damned Thing, by Ambrose Bierce
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+Title: The Damned Thing
+       1898, From "In the Midst of Life"
+
+Author: Ambrose Bierce
+
+Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23172]
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+Language: English
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+THE DAMNED THING
+
+By Ambrose Bierce
+
+Reprinted by permission. From "In the Midst of Life," copyright, 1898,
+by G. P. Putnam's Sons
+
+
+
+
+I
+
+By THE light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a
+rough table, a man was reading something written in a book. It was an
+old account book, greatly worn; and the writing was not, apparently,
+very legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame of
+the candle to get a stronger light upon it. The shadow of the book would
+then throw into obscurity a half of the room, darkening a number of
+faces and figures; for besides the reader, eight other men were present.
+Seven of them sat against the rough log walls, silent and motionless,
+and, the room being small, not very far from the table. By extending an
+arm any one of them could have touched the eighth man, who lay on the
+table, face upward, partly covered by a sheet, his arms at his sides. He
+was dead.
+
+The man with the book was not reading aloud, and no one spoke; all
+seemed to be waiting for something to occur; the dead man only was
+without expectation. From the blank darkness outside came in, through
+the aperture that served for a window, all the ever unfamiliar noises
+of night in the wilderness--the long, nameless note of a distant coyote;
+the stilly pulsing thrill of tireless insects in trees; strange cries of
+night birds, so different from those of the birds of day; the drone of
+great blundering beetles, and all that mysterious chorus of small sounds
+that seem always to have been but half heard when they have suddenly
+ceased, as if conscious of an indiscretion. But nothing of all this was
+noted in that company; its members were not overmuch addicted to idle
+interest in matters of no practical importance; that was obvious in
+every line of their rugged faces--obvious even in the dim light of the
+single candle. They were evidently men of the vicinity--farmers and
+woodmen.
+
+The person reading was a trifle different; one would have said of him
+that he was of the world, worldly, albeit there was that in his
+attire which attested a certain fellowship with the organisms of his
+environment. His coat would hardly have passed muster in San Francisco:
+his footgear was not of urban origin, and the hat that lay by him on
+the floor (he was the only one uncovered) was such that if one had
+considered it as an article of mere personal adornment he would have
+missed its meaning. In countenance the man was rather prepossessing,
+with just a hint of sternness; though that he may have assumed or
+cultivated, as appropriate to one in authority. For he was a coroner. It
+was by virtue of his office that he had possession of the book in which
+he was reading; it had been found among the dead man's effects--in his
+cabin, where the inquest was now taking place.
+
+When the coroner had finished reading he put the book into his breast
+pocket. At that moment the door was pushed open and a young man entered.
+He, clearly, was not of mountain birth and breeding: he was clad as
+those who dwell in cities. His clothing was dusty, however, as from
+travel. He had, in fact, been riding hard to attend the inquest.
+
+The coroner nodded; no one else greeted him.
+
+"We have waited for you," said the coroner. "It is necessary to have
+done with this business to-night."
+
+The young man smiled. "I am sorry to have kept you," he said. "I went
+away, not to evade your summons, but to post to my newspaper an account
+of what I suppose I am called back to relate."
+
+The coroner smiled.
+
+"The account that you posted to your newspaper," he said, "differs
+probably from that which you will give here under oath."
+
+"That," replied the other, rather hotly and with a visible flush, "is as
+you choose. I used manifold paper and have a copy of what I sent. It was
+not written as news, for it is incredible, but as fiction. It may go as
+a part of my testimony under oath."
+
+"But you say it is incredible."
+
+"That is nothing to you, sir, if I also swear that it is true."
+
+The coroner was apparently not greatly affected by the young man's
+manifest resentment. He was silent for some moments, his eyes upon the
+floor. The men about the sides of the cabin talked in whispers, but
+seldom withdrew their gaze from the face of the corpse. Presently the
+coroner lifted his eyes and said: "We will resume the inquest."
+
+The men removed their hats. The witness was sworn.
+
+"What is your name?" the coroner asked.
+
+"William Harker."
+
+"Age?"
+
+"Twenty-seven."
+
+"You knew the deceased, Hugh Morgan?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"You were with him when he died?"
+
+"Near him."
+
+"How did that happen--your presence, I mean?"
+
+"I was visiting him at this place to shoot and fish. A part of my
+purpose, however, was to study him, and his odd, solitary way of life.
+He seemed a good model for a character in fiction. I sometimes write
+stories."
+
+"I sometimes read them."
+
+"Thank you."
+
+"Stories in general--not yours."
+
+Some of the jurors laughed. Against a sombre background humor shows high
+lights. Soldiers in the intervals of battle laugh easily, and a jest in
+the death chamber conquers by surprise.
+
+"Relate the circumstances of this man's death," said the coroner. "You
+may use any notes or memoranda that you please."
+
+The witness understood. Pulling a manuscript from his breast pocket
+he held it near the candle, and turning the leaves until he found the
+passage that he wanted, began to read.
+
+
+
+
+II
+
+"...The sun had hardly risen when we left the house. We were looking for
+quail, each with a shotgun, but we had only one dog. Morgan said that
+our best ground was beyond a certain ridge that he pointed out, and we
+crossed it by a trail through the _chaparral_. On the other side was
+comparatively level ground, thickly covered with wild oats. As we
+emerged from the _chaparral_, Morgan was but a few yards in advance.
+Suddenly, we heard, at a little distance to our right, and partly in
+front, a noise as of some animal thrashing about in the bushes, which we
+could see were violently agitated.
+
+"'We've started a deer,' said. 'I wish we had brought a rifle.'
+
+"Morgan, who had stopped and was intently watching the agitated
+chaparral, said nothing, but had cocked both barrels of his gun, and was
+holding it in readiness to aim. I thought him a trifle excited, which
+surprised me, for he had a reputation for exceptional coolness, even in
+moments of sudden and imminent peril.
+
+"'O, come!' I said. 'You are not going to fill up a deer with
+quail-shot, are you?'
+
+"Still he did not reply; but, catching a sight of his face as he
+turned it slightly toward me, I was struck by the pallor of it. Then I
+understood that we had serious business on hand, and my first conjecture
+was that we had 'jumped' a grizzly. I advanced to Morgan's side, cocking
+my piece as I moved.
+
+"The bushes were now quiet, and the sounds had ceased, but Morgan was as
+attentive to the place as before.
+
+"'What is it? What the devil is it?' I asked.
+
+"'That Damned Thing!' he replied, without turning his head. His voice
+was husky and unnatural. He trembled visibly.
+
+"I was about to speak further, when I observed the wild oats near the
+place of the disturbance moving in the most inexplicable way. I can
+hardly describe it. It seemed as if stirred by a streak of wind, which
+not only bent it, but pressed it down--crushed it so that it did not
+rise, and this movement was slowly prolonging itself directly toward us.
+
+"Nothing that I had ever seen had affected me so strangely as this
+unfamiliar and unaccountable phenomenon, yet I am unable to recall any
+sense of fear. I remember--and tell it here because, singularly enough,
+I recollected it then--that once, in looking carelessly out of an open
+window, I momentarily mistook a small tree close at hand for one of a
+group of larger trees at a little distance away. It looked the same size
+as the others, but, being more distinctly and sharply defined in mass
+and detail, seemed out of harmony with them. It was a mere falsification
+of the law of aerial perspective, but it startled, almost terrified me.
+We so rely upon the orderly operation of familiar natural laws that any
+seeming suspension of them is noted as a menace to our safety, a warning
+of unthinkable calamity. So now the apparently causeless movement of the
+herbage, and the slow, undeviating approach of the line of disturbance
+were distinctly disquieting. My companion appeared actually frightened,
+and I could hardly credit my senses when I saw him suddenly throw his
+gun to his shoulders and fire both barrels at the agitated grass! Before
+the smoke of the discharge had cleared away I heard a loud savage
+cry--a scream like that of a wild animal--and, flinging his gun upon the
+ground, Morgan sprang away and ran swiftly from the spot. At the same
+instant I was thrown violently to the ground by the impact of something
+unseen in the smoke--some soft, heavy substance that seemed thrown
+against me with great force.
+
+"Before I could get upon my feet and recover my gun, which seemed to
+have been struck from my hands, I heard Morgan crying out as if in
+mortal agony, and mingling with his cries were such hoarse savage sounds
+as one hears from fighting dogs. Inexpressibly terrified, I struggled to
+my feet and looked in the direction of Morgan's retreat; and may heaven
+in mercy spare me from another sight like that! At a distance of less
+than thirty yards was my friend, down upon one knee, his head thrown
+back at a frightful angle, hatless, his long hair in disorder and his
+whole body in violent movement from side to side, backward and forward.
+His right arm was lifted and seemed to lack the hand--at least, I
+could see none. The other arm was invisible. At times, as my memory
+now reports this extraordinary scene, I could discern but a part of his
+body; it was as if he had been partly blotted out--I can not otherwise
+express it--then a shifting of his position would bring it all into view
+again.
+
+"All this must have occurred within a few seconds, yet in that time
+Morgan assumed all the postures of a determined wrestler vanquished by
+superior weight and strength. I saw nothing but him, and him not always
+distinctly. During the entire incident his shouts and curses were heard,
+as if through an enveloping uproar of such sounds of rage and fury as I
+had never heard from the throat of man or brute!
+
+"For a moment only I stood irresolute, then, throwing down my gun, I
+ran forward to my friend's assistance. I had a vague belief that he was
+suffering from a fit or some form of convulsion. Before I could reach
+his side he was down and quiet. All sounds had ceased, but, with a
+feeling of such terror as even these awful events had not inspired, I
+now saw the same mysterious movement of the wild oats prolonging itself
+from the trampled area about the prostrate man toward the edge of
+a wood. It was only when it had reached the wood that I was able to
+withdraw my eyes and look at my companion. He was dead."
+
+
+
+
+III
+
+The coroner rose from his seat and stood beside the dead man. Lifting
+an edge of the sheet he pulled it away, exposing the entire body,
+altogether naked and showing in the candle light a clay-like yellow. It
+had, however, broad maculations of bluish-black, obviously caused by
+extravasated blood from contusions. The chest and sides looked as if
+they had been beaten with a bludgeon. There were dreadful lacerations;
+the skin was torn in strips and shreds.
+
+The coroner moved round to the end of the table and undid a silk
+handkerchief, which had been passed under the chin and knotted on the
+top of the head. When the handkerchief was drawn away it exposed what
+had been the throat. Some of the jurors who had risen to get a better
+view repented their curiosity, and turned away their faces. Witness
+Harker went to the open window and leaned out across the sill, faint and
+sick. Dropping the handkerchief upon the dead man's neck, the coroner
+stepped to an angle of the room, and from a pile of clothing produced
+one garment after another, each of which he held up a moment for
+inspection. All were torn, and stiff with blood. The jurors did not
+make a closer inspection. They seemed rather uninterested. They had, in
+truth, seen all this before; the only thing that was new to them being
+Harker's testimony.
+
+"Gentlemen," the coroner said, "we have no more evidence, I think. Your
+duty has been already explained to you; if there is nothing you wish to
+ask you may go outside and consider your verdict."
+
+The foreman rose--a tall, bearded man of sixty, coarsely clad.
+
+"I should like to ask one question, Mr. Coroner," he said. "What asylum
+did this yer last witness escape from?"
+
+"Mr. Harker," said the coroner, gravely and tranquilly, "from what
+asylum did you last escape?"
+
+Harker flushed crimson again, but said nothing, and the seven jurors
+rose and solemnly filed out of the cabin.
+
+"If you have done insulting me, sir," said Harker, as soon as he and the
+officer were left alone with the dead man, "I suppose I am at liberty to
+go?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+Harker started to leave, but paused, with his hand on the door latch.
+The habit of his profession was strong in him--stronger than his sense
+of personal dignity. He turned about and said:
+
+"The book that you have there--I recognize it as Morgan's diary. You
+seemed greatly interested in it; you read in it while I was testifying.
+May I see it? The public would like--"
+
+"The book will cut no figure in this matter," replied the official,
+slipping it into his coat pocket; "all the entries in it were made
+before the writer's death."
+
+As Harker passed out of the house the jury reentered and stood about the
+table on which the now covered corpse showed under the sheet with sharp
+definition. The foreman seated himself near the candle, produced
+from his breast pocket a pencil and scrap of paper, and wrote rather
+laboriously the following verdict, which with various degrees of effort
+all signed:
+
+"We, the jury, do find that the remains come to their death at the hands
+of a mountain lion, but some of us thinks, all the same, they had fits."
+
+
+
+
+IV
+
+In the diary of the late Hugh Morgan are certain interesting entries
+having, possibly, a scientific value as suggestions. At the inquest upon
+his body the book was not put in evidence; possibly the coroner thought
+it not worth while to confuse the jury. The date of the first of the
+entries mentioned can not be ascertained; the upper part of the leaf is
+torn away; the part of the entry remaining is as follows:
+
+"... would run in a half circle, keeping his head turned always toward
+the centre and again he would stand still, barking furiously. At last he
+ran away into the brush as fast as he could go. I thought at first that
+he had gone mad, but on returning to the house found no other alteration
+in his manner than what was obviously due to fear of punishment.
+
+"Can a dog see with his nose? Do odors impress some olfactory centre
+with images of the thing emitting them? . . .
+
+"Sept 2.--Looking at the stars last night as they rose above the
+crest of the ridge east of the house, I observed them successively
+disappear--from left to right. Each was eclipsed but an instant, and
+only a few at the same time, but along the entire length of the ridge
+all that were within a degree or two of the crest were blotted out. It
+was as if something had passed along between me and them; but I could
+not see it, and the stars were not thick enough to define its outline.
+Ugh! I don't like this. . . ."
+
+Several weeks' entries are missing, three leaves being torn from the
+book.
+
+"Sept. 27.--It has been about here again--I find evidences of its
+presence every day. I watched again all of last night in the same cover,
+gun in hand, double-charged with buckshot. In the morning the fresh
+footprints were there, as before. Yet I would have sworn that I did not
+sleep--indeed, I hardly sleep at all. It is terrible, insupportable! If
+these amazing experiences are real I shall go mad; if they are fanciful
+I am mad already.
+
+"Oct. 3.--I shall not go--it shall not drive me away. No, this is _my_
+house, my land. God hates a coward....
+
+"Oct. 5.--I can stand it no longer; I have invited Harker to pass a few
+weeks with me--he has a level head. I can judge from his manner if he
+thinks me mad.
+
+"Oct. 7.--I have the solution of the problem; it came to me last
+night--suddenly, as by revelation. How simple--how terribly simple!
+
+"There are sounds that we can not hear. At either end of the scale are
+notes that stir no chord of that imperfect instrument, the human ear.
+They are too high or too grave. I have observed a flock of blackbirds
+occupying an entire treetop--the tops of several trees--and all in full
+song. Suddenly--in a moment--at absolutely the same instant--all
+spring into the air and fly away. How? They could not all see one
+another--whole treetops intervened. At no point could a leader have been
+visible to all. There must have been a signal of warning or command,
+high and shrill above the din, but by me unheard. I have observed,
+too, the same simultaneous flight when all were silent, among not only
+blackbirds, but other birds--quail, for example, widely separated by
+bushes--even on opposite sides of a hill.
+
+"It is known to seamen that a school of whales basking or sporting on
+the surface of the ocean, miles apart, with the convexity of the earth
+between them, will sometimes dive at the same instant--all gone out of
+sight in a moment. The signal has been sounded--too grave for the ear
+of the sailor at the masthead and his comrades on the deck--who
+nevertheless feel its vibrations in the ship as the stones of a
+cathedral are stirred by the bass of the organ.
+
+"As with sounds, so with colors. At each end of the solar spectrum the
+chemist can detect the presence of what are known as 'actinic'
+rays. They represent colors--integral colors in the composition of
+light--which we are unable to discern. The human eye is an imperfect
+instrument; its range is but a few octaves of the real 'chromatic scale'
+I am not mad; there are colors that we can not see.
+
+"And, God help me! the Damned Thing is of such a color!"
+
+
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