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Entry #6 (Tragedy)
May 14, 1895
A dark cloud of mourning has befallen the town. A carpenter by the name of Frank Williams fell to his death this very morning. Dropped from the topmost scaffolding on Charles Dalimar’s future home, to be quite specific.
May 16, 1895
Today, I accompanied Charles to the funeral of the poor man whose life was lost at the foot of his new home. Charles remained quiet and sullen during the proceedings. I was deeply saddened to learn that the deceased left behind a young wife and two children. As the pallbearers lowered the coffin into the ground, Charles leaned near and whispered, “Perhaps I am a cursed man, meant to reside alone within my bedeviled manor.”
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LOCATIONS
Entry: 8
Kitchen: 8
Music Room: 8
Pantry: 8
Widow’s Walk: 8
THE LOCKSMITH
Chapter 6 – Prosperity
Contrasted to his scarring childhood in Didsbury, Charles flourished throughout his teenage years in Orrell, providing him with the ability to heal and focus on his daily life. Dr. Lanswiller’s agreement was hardly pro bono; in return for lodging, Charles had to do well in his studies and apprentice in his laboratory and his wife’s greenhouse. Though their tutelages were instrumental in igniting Charles’ passion for pharmacology, it would also underpin the dynamics that would guarantee his notoriety.
Upon learning that Charles would still maintain communications with his brother through the mail, Daniel, Robert was anxious to begin the work of chronicling his psyche. Among one of the first things he made him do was to begin keeping a journal, which he suspected would contain entries of both mundane happenings and prior traumas. As Charles suspected when the doctor first brought up the proposition, its purpose was to allow the doctor to develop a psychological profile on his dysfunctions. As it would turn out, it would take less than a month for the doctor to construct a panorama.
On March 2, 1882, Charles wrote what would be his first entry of his life with the Edgewicks. Though he obtained a telling portrait of his life under their thumb, Robert swiftly took notice of a far more alarming development. Interspersed with his memories were vindictive barbs against his abusers. In one passage, Charles entertained the fantasy of blowing up the family house with explosives, remarking that it would be a fitting revenge for over a decade of abuse. Such passages during his treatment under Dr. Lanswiller would prove to be integral primary sources on his childhood, as his later accounts would be compromised by misremembrances and fury.
Regardless, Robert to particular note to how Charles reacted to when he heard news that Katherine, having since moved out of the Edgewicks out of matrimony, had sold her story about her assault and abuse to the Manchester Guardian. Reveling in schadenfreude, he made no attempt to inhibit his glee at the thought of knowing that Abigail and Seamus’ reputation took an irreparable dent. Though Robert considered this as little more than the inappropriate revelry of a moody teenager, it would be the first true hint to how profound the effect of scorched earth tactics would have on Charles’ philosophy.
Though his journals provided an outlet for his anger and trauma, Dr. Lanswiller noted that it would likely take chemical treatment to give Charles a better chance at a normal life. As it would turn out, the answer would reveal itself during an otherwise typical summer holiday. Every year, Alice took her husband to her ancestral family cottage on the Isle of Anglesey. Charles, with little distractions to his studies and treatment, was allowed to journey with them upon entering his teenage years. Encompassing the property was a sprawling meadow of wildflowers, providing ample resources not only for Alice’s greenhouse, but also for her special teas. However, Charles took particular notice of an unusual species of thrift proliferated throughout the property. With their bluish-violet hue and stubby stem, they were easily the most noticeable species of its kind in the area.
On July 29, 1885, Charles noted in his journal that the tea brewed with the flowers of the sea thrifts had calmed him far better than any prior coping mechanism or pill. Thanks to his understanding of laboratory protocols and the history of quinine, the focus of one of his final reports for a chemistry class, he hypothesized that he could find a way to isolate the particular relaxant that assuaged his compulsions. Promising that he would transplant and take care of the flowers himself, the Lanswillers allowed him to cultivate the thrifts in Alice’s greenhouse. Robert leaped at the chance to assist in Charles’ endeavor, as he knew that his experiment likely would have immense consequences. Even if it was a failure, he likely could learn reams of information by following and applying the scientific method.
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