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"He stared like a man hypnotized."
TheThing in the Trunk
By PAUL ERNST
A fascinating story about a heinous crime and its strange aftermath—
by the author of "A Witch's Curse" and other
weird thrill-tales
SOMEHOW or other, the cat was the worst feature of this whole thing.
Now that it was all over, the stark motionlessness of that which only a little while before had been a living woman did not trouble him so much. But that damned cat!
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