"The capital D's?"
"They are not unlike the one the--the THING wrote, but they are not wholly like it," was the reply.
"Do you know anyone in Providence who can get some information for you?" was the next query.
"Yes."
"Get him by long-distance 'phone when we get to this place and let me talk to him a moment."
Half an hour later The Thinking Machine was talking over the long-distance 'phone to the Providence correspondent of Hatch's paper. What he said or what he learned there was not revealed to the wondering reporter, but he came out after several minutes, only to re-enter the booth and remain for another half an hour.
"Now," he said.
Together they went to the haunted house. At the entrance to the grounds something else occurred to The Thinking Machine.
"Run over to the 'phone and call Weston," he directed. "Ask him if he has a motor-boat or if his cousin has one. We might need one. Also find out what kind of a boat it is--electric or gasoline."
Hatch returned to the village and left the scientist alone, sitting on the veranda gazing out over the sea. When Hatch returned he was still in the same position.