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Samuel Hamilton Meets Adam Trask from "East of Eden". Adam seeks advice on water for his new land and is directed to Samuel Hamilton. Samuel, a well-digger and water witch, visits the Trask ranch.

Shortly after the Trasks' arrival in the valley

Samuel Hamilton Meets Adam Trask

Adam seeks advice on water for his new land and is directed to Samuel Hamilton. Samuel, a well-digger and water witch, visits the Trask ranch. He is immediately struck by Adam's adoration of Cathy and senses something deeply wrong with her. He feels a strange, inhuman quality in her eyes, a memory that disturbs him.