This chapter's epigraph is from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. In the poem, Edgar asks the reader to imagine that he is in the middle of a conversation with a young woman. The young woman tells him that she has just received a message from a man named "Hound." The young man tells Edgar that he has received the message from the "Hound" and asks him to take the message to "Grey-Hair" . Edgar agrees to go to Grey-Hair's house to find out who sent the message.