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for the job, it looked very much like an old-fashioned doctor’s office. Aurilia looked the new set over again, and decided it wasn’t quite menacing enough. There was a definite overall impression of threat, but the customers weren’t terribly bright sometimes; they needed things pointed out.
Circles, arrows, and underlings.
She considered the doctor’s examining table. The next film would be a period piece, of the 1800s, re-enacting a series of incidents that had taken place during the Chicago World’s Fair. With liberal embellishments. The kind their customers really appreciated.
The lead character—one could hardly call him a “hero”—in this movie was a physician who had used the activity and bustle caused by the Fair to cover his own activities. He had lured in young women new to the city by advertising for secretaries, and offering a room above his office as an added incentive. With the Fair in full swing, rooms had been at a premium and were very expensive even in the poorest parts of town. Doctors were respected professionals—and in any case, he (supposedly) did not actually live in the same building as his office. Many young women applied whenever he posted his advertisement.
He only chose select individuals, however. Pretty girls, but ones with no family, or very far from home. Girls with no friends, and especially, no boyfriends. Girls with quiet, submissive natures.
He would scientifically discover their weaknesses, play upon them, and eventually, lure them down into his “special office,” with the hidden door. Among other things, he had performed hack-abortions before he had hit on the secretarial scheme. Some of those secret patients had been his victims. It had been no problem to have any number of surprises concealed within the building; it had been constructed from his own plans. Once hidden behind the soundproof walls, he would overpower his girls with chloroform, then strap