The Third Epoch: The Story continued by Walter Hartright, Part IX Summary

Walter sees the same clerk from Blackwater Park come from the house next to Mrs. Catherick's, so he follows him to the railroad station where the man boards for Blackwater. Walter spends the night at an inn in Welmingham where he writes Marian. They use a postal office far from their place in London. He instructs Marian to write back care of the postal office at Welmingham.

The next day Walter goes to the Old Welmingham church vestry. He sees two men waiting for him at the church, one of whom has followed him before, so he continues on to the home of the church clerk. The elderly man greets him warmly and lets him in the old abandoned church to inspect the...