title: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
author:  Edgar Allan Poe 
description: A man dying from tuberculosis asks his friend to hypnotize him before death. The event is witnessed by two doctors and a medical student. The results are interesting.<br /><br /><br /> Like reading? Check out this series.<br />
zlib_text: AN UNFORGETTABLE THRILLER OF 
  DECEPTION AND GREED
  MEM
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  THE POELLENBERG INHERITANCE
  ‘General Bronsart isn’t in a position to fight for 
  the Poellenberg Salt,’ Dunstan said. ‘He’s a 
  wanted criminal. He can never come into the 
  open.’
  ‘No,’ Princess Von Hessel turned right 
  round and faced him. ‘No, but his daughter can.
  I wanted somebody to find the General and the 
  Salt, and then remove him.’
  ‘I see. But you hadn’t reckoned on the 
  daughter?’
  ‘Exactly.’
  ‘When you say “remove”,’ Dunston sounded 
  casual, ‘what do you mean by that?’
  ‘Just what you think I mean,’ she said coldly.
  ‘Dispose of; kill, if you prefer plain language.’ 
  ‘And the daughter? She could claim the Salt and 
  get away with it. That’s the real trouble, isn’t it?’ 
  ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘Once she came into it everything 
  changed. But I want the Poellenberg Salt, Mr. 
  Dunston, and I don’t want anyone alive to claim 
  it’
  ‘Christ,’ Dunston said softy, ‘You’re asking for 
  a murder. You’re asking me to kill that girl