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Made at sea. During the winter of 1927 and 28, officials of the federal government made a strange and

secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Insmoth.

The public first learned of it in February when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred

followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting under suitable precautions

of an enormous number of crumbling, worm-eaten, and supposedly empty houses along the abandoned waterfront.

Unenquiring souls let this occurrence pass as one of the major clashes in a spasmodic war on liquor.

Keener news followers, however, wondered at the prodigious number of arrests, the abnormally large force of men

used in making them, and the secrecy surrounding the disposal of the prisoners.

No trials or even definite charges were reported, nor were any of the captives seen thereafter in the regular jails of the nation.

There were vague statements about disease and concentration camps, and later about dispersal in various naval and military prisons, but nothing positive ever developed.

Insmuth itself was left almost depopulated, and is even now only beginning to show signs of a sluggishly revived existence.

Complaints for many liberal organizations were met with long confidential discussions

and representatives were taken on trips to certain camps and prisons.

As a result, these societies became surprisingly passive and reticent.

Newspaper men were harder to manage, but seemed largely to cooperate with the government in the end.

Only one paper, a tabloid always discounted because of its wild policy, mentioned the deep diving submarine that discharged torpedoes downward in the marine abyss just the indeed rather far-fetched, since the low black reef lies a full mile and a half out from Insmith

Harbor.

People around the country and in the nearby towns muttered a great deal among themselves, but said very little to the outer world.

They had talked about dying and half deserted Insmith for nearly a century, and nothing new could

be wilder or more hideous than what they had whispered and hinted years before. Many things had taught

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