| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Groaning, Screeching, and Hissing, such as no Things of this Earth
could raise up, and which must needs have come from those Caves
that only black Magick can discover, and only the Divell unlock".
Mr. Hoadley disappeared soon after delivering this sermon, but
the text, printed in Springfield, is still extant. Noises in the
hills continued to be reported from year to year, and still form
a puzzle to geologists and physiographers.
Other traditions
tell of foul odours near the hill-crowning circles of stone pillars,
and of rushing airy presences to be heard faintly at certain hours
from stated points at the bottom of the great ravines; while still
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: unassailable. So the deduction to be drawn is that the Great Eyrie
has not yet given up its secret."
"If we are determined to know it, Mr. Ward, the solution is only a
solution of expense. Pickaxes and dynamite would soon conquer those
walls."
"No doubt," responded the chief, "but such an undertaking hardly
seems justified, since the mountain is now quiet. We will wait awhile
and perhaps nature herself will disclose her mystery."
"Mr. Ward, believe me that I regret deeply that I have been unable to
solve the problem you entrusted to me," I said.
"Nonsense! Do not upset yourself, Strock. Take your defeat
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