On a sunny morning, Doctor Arlow Morhouse decided to visit his longtime patient: a disabled man who, in the war, had lost his hearing, his sight, and his ability to speak—yet had gained a wonderful poetic gift of Richard Blake. Approaching the house, the doctor and his companions hear the prosaic ticking of a typewriter—Blake’s. How surprised and afraid they were when they found that Blake had been dead for more than an hour… and in a very strange way.