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      We decide that we would wait an other couple of nights to see if anything happened again, and right enough it did. So one night Albert and I sat in my room until it was quiet and enough to go and see if the room was unlocked. But around midnight we saw the master entering the room with a large box, then he came out and locked the door again. We waited a little while longer, then went to the room.
      Albert had some spare keys, but none of them fitted the lock. Just as we were trying to unlock the door the master came back up. We went into the door next to this. Then Albert remembered that some of the rooms had other doors leading to a bathroom which he had keys to.When we finally came to this door, we took a big breath and slowly opened the door. The room was very dark and as we inched the door open we saw shadows appearing. Then we heard a noise coming from the bed.
      We saw the master putting some blood into a drip which was hooked on to someone or something lying in the bed. He didn’t see us as he was too busy with what he was doing. So we hid behind the curtains until he had gone. When he did go we came out and had a better look and to our shock it was his wife with new flesh and skin. We didn't know were it came from.
      Dr Anderson had been experimenting for some time, and he hoped that one day he would bring his wife back to life by getting Albert to find young girls. They had to be fresh and healthy. And slowly he used the girls for his experiments. Dr Anderson worked so hard on his experiments, some were successful and some were disasters. Now he was coming to the end of his experiments.
      Albert brought me to the house and I was to be the final experiment. But I found out just in time as Albert came across some papers which had some of his experiment information. And that was how we knew that I must be next. But we had to stop this. Albert looked at me with shocked eyes and I looked at him. We both had the same thought about me, being young with fresh blood and smooth skin.
      Over the past few weeks Albert had his suspicions but could not prove it until I came along. I didn’t want to end up like the others. Albert said, "we must stop this and get out of the house altogether." Albert would destroy the lab and I would destroy what was in the room and both of us would leave the house as soon possible.
      The next day we went down for breakfast.We tried not to look like we knew what was happening. After breakfast I went up the stair to pack some things and Albert went to the lab with the doctor. All day long I waited for him, but he didn’t come and I was worried in case the doctor had found out that we knew about his wife.
      Dinner time came.We did the same thing at the table, but this time the master was giving me the funny look all through the meal. I asked where Albert was going and he said to finish off the lab. I put a small case at the front door ready to go, but I had to destroy the room that had his wife. I pulled the curtains and tipped the furniture over and knocked the things from the dressing table and got hold of the oil lamp and threw it at the bed which caught alight. The master came in and saw me. He tried to put the flames out and he got caught fire himself. I ran out of the room and met Albert at the door. He said, "I destroyed the lab and everything I could think of". Just as we left the house there was an explosion and the house went up in flames. We watched it burn to the ground. Then Albert and I went on our travels together and never looked back.