What happened to the face on the wall when Mr. Wall had an accident? How did Mr. Ormond meet his end?
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Second, the face on the wall was faint when Mr. Ormond had an accident and disappeared when he died. He finished talking and when he was at the door, the people in the room reminded him of the third thing.
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Summary of The Story :
The narrator and a group of people were talking about unusual events that seemed to have no natural explanation. There was a stranger among those speakers. He was a little man with a pale face. He was watching them carefully, but didn't say a word.
Dabney included the stranger in the talk
Dabney asked the stranger if he had any experience to describe a story which couldn’t be explained to include him in the talk.
The stranger began to talk
He said that he had a true story which happened to him personally and completed itself only that afternoon. The stranger said that truth may be so much stranger than imagination.
The storyteller said that he rented a room in Ormond Street a year or two years ago. There were a lot of patches on the wall because of the dampness. There was a patch which looked like the face of a real man. All the patches began to change, but the face never changed its shape.
The face began to control him
The storyteller used to watch the face and began to think of it as real as his fellow lodger. The face got firmer hold of him and grew more and more remarkable. The nose had a curious turn and the shape of the head was unusual. It was the face of a very unusual man, a man in a thousand.
The storyteller began to search for the real man
He began to look for someone who looked like the face on the wall. He looked for him in busy and crowded places like political meetings, football matches, and railway stations, but in vain.
He believed that he was connected with the face by fate. People thought he was mad because he was watching the people and looking at their faces. The police suspected him also.
Seeing the real man
Suddenly, he saw the man in a taxi and took another taxi and followed him. At Caring Cross railway station, he saw the man standing with a little girl and other two ladies. He tried to talk to the man, but he couldn't because they took the train to Folkestone to go to France. So, he booked a ticket to Folkestone to catch the man before he sailed to France. Also, he failed to talk to the man and he had to ride the boat with him.
The storyteller got shocked
After half an hour of the voyage, the storyteller met the man when he got out of his room. He asked him to give him his card because he had a very important reason to communicate with him. The man thought that he was a mad man and gave him the card at once.
When he read the card and knew that the man's name was "Ormond Wall" from Pittsburg-U.S.A. , he fainted and was taken to the hospital at Boulogne for some weeks.
After a month, the storyteller went back home and collected as much information as possible about Mr. Ormond Wall. He knew that he was a millionaire with English parents who had lived in London. He knew this information from some Americans and some American newspaper men.
The face on the wall became faint
A day before, he discovered that the face on the wall was faint. When he bought the paper and read about an accident that took place to Mr. Ormond Wall and a party. The car was overturned and Mr. Ormond Wall was badly injured.
The face on the wall disappeared
When he returned to his room, he was greatly shocked because he found that the face had completely disappeared. Later, he knew that Mr. Ormond Wall had died at that moment.
The three extraordinary things
The storyteller said that there were three extraordinary things about this story. First, the face on the wall in the room looked like the face of a true American gentleman and the man's name had a relation to the place Ormond Street. Second, the face on the wall was faint when Mr. Ormond had an accident and disappeared when he died.
He finished talking and when he was at the door, the people in the room reminded him of the third thing. The stranger said that the third thing was that he made the story up about half an hour ago.