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Viola that the matter is closed. However, Viola keeps asking for her late sister's wardrobe until Arthur gives in, in a fit of annoyance, and provides Viola with the key to her sister's chest, which is stored in the attic. When Viola has failed to attend dinner or respond to several of Mr. Lloyd's summons, he climbs the stairs to the attic, where the chest is kept, to look for her. In the attic, he finds Viola dead, on her knees in front of the opened chest, with ten hideous wounds inflicted by ghostly hands.
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