The Obscured History of Thorne’s Regret

Thorne’s Regret, completed in 1891 for the eccentric but wealthy music enthusiast, Mr. Arthur Thorne, was famed locally for the concert-quality grand piano that dominated its drawing room. Thorne lived in the house for only seven years before abandoning it entirely, selling it for a pittance in 1898 with all its contents remaining untouched. The subsequent years of abandonment and decay have heavily Obscured the story of its final months. The central mystery concerns the grand piano, found irreparably damaged years later, and the activities of the Piano technician, Mr. George Eldridge, who was contracted for its bi-weekly maintenance. Eldridge’s detailed records—his tuning forks, service cards, and official call registers—should have provided a chronological account of the piano’s condition right up to the house’s abandonment. Instead, his entire archive related to Thorne’s Regret has gone Missing, leaving the exact timing and cause of the piano’s severe damage, and Eldridge’s final fate, entirely Unresolved.

The Obscured Service Cards

The Piano technician used his service cards to log every visit, detailing the piano’s health and any necessary repairs, acting as a chronological record of the instrument’s life. The discovered cards, with their Obscured, broken sequence, offer a deeply Unresolved timeline, one that cannot be reconciled with Mr. Thorne’s claimed continuous occupancy. The final note mentioning the need for immediate, drastic repair is the key archival contradiction. If the repair was required, and the technician was diligent, why did he not return to perform the work, and why did Mr. Thorne leave the house without ensuring the safety of his prized instrument? Furthermore, Eldridge’s official call registers for that period, which would show the complete schedule of his appointments, are Missing entirely from the municipal archive. The systematic disappearance of the formal records suggests a deliberate Obscured break in the technician’s activities at the house, possibly linked to the rapid deterioration of the piano’s condition.

The Unresolved Call Register