Documents (The Glass Staircase)

This is a list of **documents** to *The Glass Staircase*.

> A Letter addressed to a Martin M. Tatum
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> *"That sound you were hearing... the one at night in your dreams. That one that's been ringing in your head since our days in the trenches. It never went away, did it? Mine either.*
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> *Martin, it's starting to make sense. There's been this... heat. I felt all the way in Scottsdale, it's been burning in me for months. Beautiful dreams. They've been telling me where to go. Sure, I was worried I was crazy, but I've met others along the way. We've all seen it. All felt it*
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> *It's not some made-up illness they've given to us, it's something real! This beautiful machine... it opens doors. I've seen it in my dreams, and I think I need to find it. I think it's where we're headed. This is something much larger than I thought, Martin. Than I could ever dream.*
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> *If your dreams have been speaking to you, as well, then you owe it to yourself. Come to the address marked on this envelope, it's some manor I've seen the eyes open above. Come with us. It's going to be so beautiful.*
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> *Sincerely,*
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> *Lieutenant Grayson Dobbs*"
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### Helen's note

Found on the table with the dusty vase on the ground floor.

> "*Helen:*
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> *Though your time with us has been short, it is still important that you can be determined as "reliable". We would like for you to begin tending the front garden of the estate. Twice a day you will need to feed and water the flower bed as well as maintain the hedges. We are very willing to trust this task to you, as you've been very regular in taking your medicine, where some of the girls are somewhat unreliable.*
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> *You can't expect your parents to want you back if you're unreliable, can you?*
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> *To dissuade the others from running about outside, we have hidden the key beneath the downstairs piano. Please return it when you're done, each day, and be sure to let none of the other girls see you.*
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> *You're a good girl, Helen.*"
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### Juliette's journal 1

Found in the corner of the dining room on the ground floor.

> "*November 11th, 1918*
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> *Edward at last returned home from the Great War. I give many thanks to the Lord for his safe return from Germany. To think that just days before he was ripped from me to be a doctor in the war we were married. He's returning to his job at Queen Mary's Hospital in London. What a dreadful drive it is back and forth day in and day out. And with the epidemic that's been plaguing the countryside... Well, I worry for his health. God willing, he'll be alright as he helps those poor souls.*
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> *February 18th, 1919*
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> TBA"
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## Day 2

### Betty's note

Found on the table with the dusty vase on the ground floor.

> "*Betty:*
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> *Early this morning a package arrived for you from an unconfirmed courier.*
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> *The manor cannot be expected to assume responsibility for such a delivery, but, as a courtesy we are informing you to retrieve it.*
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> *Please do this immediately, less something happen to your delivery.*
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> *That would be a terrible shame. Especially if it were from your mother.*"
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### Juliette's journal 2

Found on a table on the ground floor.

> "TBA"
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### Wet note 1

Found in the hedge maze.

> "*WE HAVE ALL SEEN THE EYE, HAVE WE NOT? WE HAVE ALL FELT THE HEAT THAT HAS POWERED US HERE. THERE IS ONLY THE ONE FEELING THAT WE HAVE ALL SHARED, AND NOW WE MUST WAIT. THE WAIT MAY BE HARD. IT MAY BE UNFORGIVING. BUT WE MIST WAIT. THE DREAMS CONTINUE TO SPEAK THROUGH US. THE EYE THAT FOLLOWS US FROM THE PARTED CLOUDS, SHOWING US THE PATH TO OUR SALVATION! THE ENGINE THAT WILL FREE US FROM THE BINDS OF THE FALSE PROPHETS, AND BRING OUT SAVIOR TO US! WE MUST WAIT AS THE DOCTOR MAKES OUR DREAMS THE REALITY WE KNOW THEY ARE. WE MUST WAIT.*"
> The rest is missing...
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## Day 3

### Dorothy's note

Found on the table with the dusty vase on the ground floor.

> "*Dorothy:*
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> *We have begun entering the later year and, as such, our daylight hours are getting shorter.*
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> *We'll be entrusting you with lighting all the manor's candles before nightfall, as well as snuffing them out in the morning.*
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> *This is a larger responsibility, but we trust that you are more than capable of it.*
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> *We must all do our part here.*
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> *You're such a responsible young lady, Dorothy. Surely your family will be glad to have you home.*"
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### Wet note 2

Found on a shelf in the bathroom on the ground floor.

> "*AND THE LORD SAYETH UNTO ME, GO OUT INTO THE MASSES AND PREACH MY WORD. FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS BUT A LIE. INDEED, TIS A LIE, A LIE! THE GOD OF OUR FOREFATHERS IS DEAD, AND IN HIS PLACE WE WILL AWAKEN A NEW LORD, OUR BETTER LORD. FROM BELOW, BELOW, WE WILL ARISE, ARISE, AND TAKE THE SMOULDERING WORLD OF MAN. OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, OUR SALVATION LIES IN DOCTOR EDWARD SULLIVAN, PROPHET OF THE NEW WORD. FOR OUR LIVES DO WE OWE TO HIM.*"
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### Juliette's Journal 3

Found on the ground of the bedroom on the first floor.

## Day 4

### Rifle note

Found next to the rifle.

"*I left the rifle like we talked about.*

*You have to kill it tonight.*

*The door to the laboratory is under the porch.*"

### Dr. Edward Sullivan's letter 1

Found on the desk of the laboratory's foyer.

> "TBA"
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### Dr. Edward Sullivan's letter 2

Found on a shelf in the laboratory hallways.

> "*July 24th, 1922 My suspicions were not only confirmed, but completely validated by my final discovery last night. The zealots were less than happy to come to realize my line of questioning hadn't ceased even after several more months of my experiments. The hierarch took to keeping me as content with research material as possible, hopefully to keep me stimulated. Perhaps too much so to ask my questions while the radiant heat from the engine slowly cooked away my mind and warped my body. It's quite unfortunate for them that these walls are my walls, and that I know where to get anywhere I need to in this manor. This is what led to me finally listening in on one of their perverse sermons.*
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> *The things these madmen would ramble on about would give a man pause, but hardly make him listen far beyond that; I've been far too close to these happenings for far too long to not listen, though. Listen and understand. They spoke of their great god in the machine. They spoke of how it communicates to them through their dreams, as it had with me, showing them prophetic visions. Visions of the future.*
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> *They speak of the day the machine is finally fed the blood of the last innocent. They speak of the blood-red sky opening to their lords. The convergence of the two worlds. The legions of our fallen that will return to herald in the reconnection of the true world to our own, and the slaughter that will fill every city of man, and that their own bodies will begin ascending in their holy vessels. Everything I've been seeing has been given a new context, and I realize that I had been betrayed. Every single thing the entity had told me had been a means to complete the bridge, Cain's terrible staircase to his gods. Were I a weaker man, perhaps my mind would have been so gone as to this news meaning nothing to me, but the truth is before my eyes. I will bring the devil to this world if I allow the machine to continue running. The more blood I spill the closer I get to ending it for all of us.*
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> *The maniacs seem to have yet to notice how suspicious I have become, which will work to my advantage. IT* (sic) *will take no time to disable the devices that power this hellish engine, and hopefully even less time to destroy it. My body may be changing the same as all the others, but my strength is far from gone. If I can truly dismantle the device, then I may have some change at salvation.*
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> *This will take some time, but if I am left to my devices as I have been, then I will have the time to tie up the loose ends that may be left in this research and plan for safe passafe for my darling Juliette. Oh, God, Juliette. My wife. How I have betrayed her... If she still even resides in this hell-hole I have created for us, then I must tell her the truth. Seek some kind of forgiveness... Though my acts may have been as evil as any of these lunatics, let it never be said that I have stopped loving my Juliette. I will save her from this future. I will put a stop to this myself. I just need enough time to put this is* (sic) *motion. Please wait for me, my love. Let me be the man you know I am. To take care of Dr. K. H. Hauzer.*"
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### Dr. Edward Sullivan's letter 3

Found on a shelf in the storage room in the laboratory.

> "TBA"
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### Dr. Edward Sullivan's letter 4

Found on the desk in the experiment room.

> "TBA"
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