Douglas Henslowe's 3rd Letter to Joyce
From RPGS surrounding the Labcats
Miss Joyce Summers c/o Mrs. Janet Winston-Rogers High Branch Manor, 872 Kingsport Rd, Aylesbury, Massachusetts Mr. D. Henslowe 513 West Henry Street, Savannah, Georgia. Dear Joyce, Thank you for the timely warning. We were moved safely, and I am on my guard. I'm very worried about Dr. Walker, though, Joyce, very worried. He was away on a "family emergency", but it happened at the time you were warning all of us that the Enemy might be trying to capture us. Since Dr. Walker returned, he has been acting very strangely, and I can only wonder if he truly had a family emergency, or if he fell into Enemy hands, and if so, what was done to him and what the Enemy knows of us now. The morning he came back, Dr. Walker acted as if nothing had happened. But, what people here at the new place don't realize is that he actually came back, secretly, the night before! I was watching out a window. A window, Joyce! It is so nice to have a room with a window again. I saw him move four large objects from his car onto a hospital trolley. I got only a quick glimpse -- a cylinder, perhaps a foot high and almost as much in diameter; something a little taller with what looked like lenses; a box with vacuum tubes and a sounding board; and something that looked like a strange record player, but with a metal disc, not vinyl one -- before Dr. Walker covered everything with a sheet and pushed the trolley into the hospital. I did not know that first night where he had taken those strange items. But, I later learned that there is a room that he has set aside, Joyce. He always locks the door, and only he has the keys. The door is too strong for me to break, and I never could get through locked doors the way Vince Stark could. I have listened at the door sometimes. Even when he is the only one in the room, Joyce, I swear that I have heard two voices. Sometimes, he is not the only one in the room. Joyce, he sometimes goes into that room with Edgar Job. He never allows anyone else to come into the room. And then, when I listen, I can hear three voices -- Dr. Walker's voice, Edgar Job's voice, and -- that -third voice-! Obviously, I cannot tell anyone else at the hospital. They would think that I was insane. But, I know that you will understand. Joyce, I think Dr. Walker was taken and I think that Edgar Job has never stopped working for the Enemy -- for whoever leads what was left of Echevarria's cult after that terrible day in 1924. Edgar Job is doing something terrible to Dr. Walker -- and that voice! That third voice that can belong to nothing human -- whoever owns that voice is doing something unspeakable! Please come quickly! We have to save Dr. Walker from the Enemy! I am not a strong man, and I am not a soldier any more, but I will do what I can. Your Friend, Douglas