Frank de Felitta

Williams Philip. Irascibilité croissante, accepte le travail à contrecoeur, mais il l'accepte. Exécute correctement les ordres. Complètement perdu en mer, peur de l'inconnu quand il est loin de son milieu. Bonne résistance. Bonne capacité de récupération ? Réaction rapide à la crise, esprit vif. Pourrait nous étonner.
Williams Tracey. Signes d'hystérie latente. Etat physique déplorable. Incapable de ramer. Rebutée par la pénurie de vivres. Mais l'accepte sans protestations. Pas de questions. De jour en jour plus soumise. Pouce infecté a dû être opéré. Puis amputé. Episode inoubliable. Scène merveilleusement dramatique.

She kicked behind her, touching nothing. A powerful arm grabbed her around the waist and pulled her up, so that she was on all fours. Her nightgown was lifted up over her back and — from behind — she was violated. The intense thing — the giant dimension of it — the pain of it finding so quickly the entrance and thrusting so fast inside, ramming away like that's all she was, that place, and not a human being at all.

Two nights later, November 23, 1914, the English instructor of Gol­gotha Valley Elementary School, a Robert Wharton, saw two illumined blue globes move slowly over the west wall of the church.

November 24, and no fewer than twenty townspeople swore before a notary public that they had heard choral music echo in the dark and empty church.

The next morning, Silas E. Gutman, owner of the adjacent property, slit the throats of his two prize heifers because of their low, voicelike gutturals after grazing among the tombstones.

On November 25, the wife of the real estate agent, a Mrs. Gerald T. K. Hodges, complained to her husband that she heard the untended bell slowly tolling in the vapory hollow. Two hours later, she was dead of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Thus began the legend of Golgotha Falls. The events continued, in memory and fear, in the collective imaginations of the dying valley. Blue luminescences, disembodied voices at night, and animals gone mad from grazing too near the church were observed well into the next generation.