⁠—would not be long in finding the Philosopher’s Stone. The nearest neighbors to this farm⁠—the Fenners, a quarter of a mile away⁠—had still queerer things to tell of certain sounds which they insisted came from the Curwen place in the night. There were cries, they said, and sustained howlings; and they did not like the large number of livestock which thronged the pastures. Then, too, there was something very obnoxious about a certain great stone outbuilding with only high narrow slits for windows.