The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: shed no light upon either cult or image, and now the detective
had come to the highest authorities in the country and met with
no more than the Greenland tale of Professor Webb.
The feverish
interest aroused at the meeting by Legrasse's tale, corroborated
as it was by the statuette, is echoed in the subsequent correspondence
of those who attended; although scant mention occurs in the formal
publications of the society. Caution is the first care of those
accustomed to face occasional charlatanry and imposture. Legrasse
for some time lent the image to Professor Webb, but at the latter's
death it was returned to him and remains in his possession, where
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