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There was an attic at the top of a dark flight of stairs in the suburban villa that was now the sisters' home. It contained a fireplace and a long dormer window-three square casements in a row, of which the outer pair opened like doors-facing the morning sun and a country landscape. The previous tenants had used it for a box and lumber room, and le