Johansen says nothing about the island beyond mentioning a 'dark chasm,' and although he remembers returning to the Alert with one companion, he confesses to having no knowledge of the circumstances of his partner's death. They find a small island, where six of Johansen's men die. Abandoning the bombarded Emma, Johansen boards the Alert with eight men, killing the remaining crew, and navigating the vessel toward its charted destination.

The Emma returns fire but incurs heavy damage in the battle, which kills Captain Collins and the first mate, leaving Johansen in charge. After the Emma's chief officer, Captain Collins, ignores the Alert's command to turn back, the Alert fires on the Emma with reinforced cannons. Originally the second mate of a schooner named Emma bound from Auckland, New Zealand, to Callao, Peru, Johansen reports being rerouted southward by a large storm on March 1st, and chancing upon the derelict Alert on March 22nd. Authorities question the lone survivor, named Gustav Johansen, who confesses that he found the stone idol in a shrine in one of the Alert's cabins, and provides an account rife with, 'piracy and slaughter.' On April 2nd, a significant storm pushed the Vigilant further south than its usual course, causing it to sight the derelict Alert. The Vigilant left Valparaiso, Chile, on March 25th, and arrived in Darling Harbour, Australia, six days after sighting the Alert near Dunedin, New Zealand. Thurston wishes he could undo ever seeing the article, and quotes its contents directly. The headline declares that a freighter named Vigilant has towed in a disabled but armed yacht named Alert, with one man found dead and one survivor aboard. A picture in the article, from the Sydney Bulletin dated April 18th, 1925, contains the same 'hideous stone image' as found in Angell's papers.

Several years after discovering the contents of Angell's estate and contemplating the existence of the 'Cthulu cult,' Thurston encounters a peculiar news item while visiting a friend, a curator of a local museum in Paterson, New Jersey.

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