Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon

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Professor Angell was widely known as an authority on ancient inscriptions, and had frequently been resorted to by the heads of prominent museums;

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so that his passing at the age of ninety-two may be recalled by many.

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Locally, interest was intensified by the obscurity of the cause of death.

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The professor had been stricken whilst returning from the Newport boat; falling suddenly, as witnesses said, after having been jostled by a nautical-looking negro who had come from one of the queer dark courts on the precipitous hillside which formed a short cut from the waterfront to the deceased’s home in Williams Street.

(Note: I am quoting Lovecraft, this isn't my written work.)

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Physicians were unable to find any visible disorder, but concluded after perplexed debate that some obscure lesion of the heart, induced by the brisk ascent of so steep a hill by so elderly a man, was responsible for the end.

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At the time I saw no reason to dissent from this dictum, but latterly I am inclined to wonder—and more than wonder.

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As my grand-uncle’s heir and executor, for he died a childless widower, I was expected to go over his papers with some thoroughness;

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and for that purpose moved his entire set of files and boxes to my quarters in Boston.

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Much of the material which I correlated will be later published by the American Archaeological Society, but there was one box which I found exceedingly puzzling, and which I felt much averse from shewing to other eyes.

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It had been locked, and I did not find the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which the professor carried always in his pocket.