Chapters 17-19 Summary

Chapter 17

The following morning, Mike crawls under his house to investigate the scraping he had heard. He finds a large hole, similar to the one he found in the shed at the cemetery.

Duane finds another note written by Art in the dead man's wastebasket. Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law states that if the bell is activated correctly by a sacrifice, then the culminating apocalypse it brings will occur in sixty years, six months, and six days. Duane calculates that if what is happening now is the apocalypse the bell brings, then the sacrifices that activated it would have had to occur sometime around the New Year, 1900.

Chapter 18

Duane interviews the mother of the librarian, Ms. Moon. She is 84, and Duane is hoping she remembers something about the bell. She remembers when the belfry was open and the bell...