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LORD of the SILENT DEATH
LORD of the SILENT DEATH
Death came out of a box and stalked through the streets of Chicago. Samuel Morton found the box in Asia Minor, in a niche in the tomb of a forgotten Sumerian king, and not being able to open it, brought it back to this country with him. Morton was an archeologist, on the staff of the Asia Museum, located in South Chicago. After months of effort, he succeeded, one hot August afternoon, in opening the box. But the death that lurked in it did not strike then. It waited. Morton was alone that night,
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