- "When
- the
- student
- of
- medicine,
- Richard
- Bracquemont,
- decided
- to
- move
- into
- room
- #7
- of
- the
- small
- Hotel
- Stevens,
- Rue
- Alfred
- Stevens
- (Paris
- 6),
- three
- persons
- had
- already
- hanged
- themselves
- from
- the
- cross-bar
- of
- the
- window
- in
- that
- room
- on
- three
- successive
- Fridays."
- The
- last
- of
- them
- was
- a
- police
- sergeant
- who
- had
- volunteered
- to
- sleep
- in
- the
- room
- to
- learn
- what
- happens
- that
- might
- explain
- the
- hangings,
- and
- somehow
- he
- met
- with
- the
- same
- fate.
- The
- medical
- student
- was
- aware
- of
- these
- incidents,
- but...
- "There
- was
- one
- detail
- about
- which
- he
- knew
- nothing
- because
- neither
- the
- police
- inspector
- nor
- any
- of
- the
- eyewitnesses
- had
- mentioned
- it
- to
- the
- press.
- It
- was
- only
- later,
- after
- what
- happened
- to
- the
- medical
- student,
- that
- anyone
- remembered
- that
- when
- the
- police
- removed
- Sergeant
- Charles-Maria
- Chaumié's
- body
- from
- the
- window
- cross-bar
- a
- large
- black
- spider
- crawled
- from
- the
- dead
- man's
- open
- mouth.
- A
- hotel
- porter
- flicked
- it
- away,
- exclaiming,
- 'Ugh,
- another
- of
- those
- damned
- creatures.'"
- Thus
- begins
- this
- bizarre
- mystery
- of
- "The Spider."
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