Afterward, they played with their black cat, Roderick Usher, whom their mom and dad had brought home as a kitten just two weeks before the launching pad accident that claimed their lives. Roderick meant everything to Edgar and Allan. (It didn’t hurt that he was probably the smartest cat in the world.) When Roderick retreated for a morning nap, curling into a ball that concealed the furry white figure eight on his chest, the twins turned their attention to a few of the household projects they’d had to put off for the past few weeks. First they made precise measurements of the shadowy, oddly shaped rooms on the top floor of the large white clapboard house that had been in the Poe family almost back to the days of their famous great-great-great-great granduncle. They used the measurements to draft a detailed architectural drawing that they hoped would reveal some unaccounted-for space between the rooms, which might indicate a hidden chamber. Who knew what such a chamber might contain?
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