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The Haunted Stair
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\ footsteps — slow, measured, infinitely cautious — ^^the swish of a body against the curving rail. ^/And then, suddenly, apparently from under their very feet, arose a woman's scream — a cry of terror in the dark that broke off abruptly in a throaty gurgle. IhHI
Came the crash of a falling body, the slam of a door, but when the lights 'iSKS flashed on — nothing/ And the doors all locked from the inner side! :/ JMJ8 Where, then, was their ghostly visitor? Why did he continually J
haunt that circular stairway? And what was this thing he ,r
sought that had already cost one man his life, and was to
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