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"It was a column of fog, yet it lived and had mass and weight."

TheWoman in Room 607

By THORP McCLUSKY

Strange, weird story about a woman who clung too closely to life—a tale
about the morbid horror that flowed out from under the door
of that room in the Hotel Northrup

1. An Appeal for Help

It was a little after eleven in the evening when Police Commissioner Charles B. Ethredge met the woman. . . .

Ethredge, who sometimes rebelled from the too-frequently sedentary nature of his office, had been taking a long nocturnal stroll.

Strolling now, stopping at times to gaze into the brightly lighted shop windows or to study the theater lobby displays, unobtrusively receiving the defer-

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