That stain is going to be a pig to get rid of...

We spend the day sight-seeing and then go to the curators’ home. The curator was seen arriving home at 8.40pm the night before, and has not left the building. There was a dinner party at Mr & Mrs Pinkington’s on the 9th floor of the building so it was reasonably busy. People started arriving at 7.30pm and there was a steady stream of visitors until 8.15pm.

We go up and check curator Jones room with the doorman. The doorman enters while we wait outside and then we hear him vomiting loudly. We enter the apartment and in the study find a bloody stain going across the floor and then up the wall. The curator is slumped in the corner with his stomach and chest ripped open allowing to view his intestines. We can see that the heart has been torn out of the body. On the wall is writing in the curators’ blood:

‘Loetan riht onfindan aet scyldig he gear aet fyllo man hwa foloetan se leotit’

The curator was obviously dragged from the middle of the room to the corner. Father Montalcini and Dr Leicester are violently sick at the sight before them.

When searching the house we find some love letters written by ‘Penelope’ but nothing else of any interest apart from a partially written letter that seems very serious and basically says ‘it has been done, we can be together soon’.

The police arrive at the scene and then another guy arrives wearing an ill-fitting cheap suit, trilby hat, and long coat and takes charge. A coroner is called. Statements are taken from us and then we are released. We notice that when searching the room the detective takes no notice of the writing on the wall as though he expects it to be there. On quizzing the Detective he admits that the writing appears on the wall besides all the victims. We overhear the coroner say to the Detective that ‘it’s like all the others. All the ribs are broke, and it looks like someone has torn his chest open and the person who did this has more strength than I have seen in any man’.

I go to the ‘speak easy’ that evening with Harry. The talk is all about the murders. Some folk believe it is the work of a demon and this seems to be leading argument. The information about the victims chests’ being ripped apart is not in the papers but everybody is talking about it. There have been 31 known victims but only 16 have been reported in the papers.

Dr Leicester spends the evening analyzing the writing from the wall and determines that it is a pre-Latin European language. He enters into the Dreamlands in an attempt to gain further information from our patron, Sir Nicolas. Unfortunately he fails to remember the entire message so can only get help for small snippets. Sir Nicolas tells us that we should look at pre-Roman English languages for help deciphering the message. Dr Leicester eventually translates the first line of the message as:

‘Let justice discover the guilty’