=== apom_fwd_pt6 === 

It lay, he said, stretched full length in the snow with the arms outstretched above the head toward the edge of the bluff, and when he showed me the spot it flashed upon me that it was the identical one where I had seen him on those other nights, with his arms raised in supplication to the skies. =

There were no marks of violence on the body, and with the aid of a local physician the coroners jury quickly reached a decision of death from heart failure.  Left alone in the study, I opened the safe and withdrew the contents of the drawer in which he had told me I would find my instructions.  They were in part peculiar indeed, but I have followed them to each last detail as faithfully as I was able. =

He directed that I remove his body to Virginia without embalming, and that he be laid in an open coffin within a tomb which he previously had had constructed and which, as I later learned, was well ventilated. =

=== end of pt6 ===