"A favorite story of New York literary circles a few years ago a poverty-stricken damsel who was invited to a formal dance. It was her chance to enter a brand new world. Who knew but that some rich young man would fall in love with her and lift her out of her life at the box factory. The catch of the matter is that she had no suitable dress to wear for such an occasion.
'Why don't you rent a costume for the evening?' Suggested a friend. Not having thought of this before, the girl became hopeful, and that very night went to a pawnshop near her little flat, where for a surprisingly reasonable sum she rented a beautiful white satin gown with the accessories to match. Miraculously, it fit her like a glove and gave her such radiance that upon her arrival at the party she created a minor sensation.
She was cut in on again and again, and as she whirled happily around the floor, she felt that her luck indeed had changed for the better. Soon, however, she began to feel faint and nauseated. She fought against a growing discomfort as long as possible, but finally stole out of the house with barely sufficient strength to stagger into a cab and creep up the stairs into her room.
She threw herself onto her bed, broken-hearted, and it was then, possibly in her delirium, that she heard a woman's voice whispering in her ear. It was harsh and bitter. 'Give me back my dress,' it said. 'Give me back my dress! It belongs to the dead.'
The next morning, the lifeless body of the young girl was found stretched out on her bed. The unusual circumstances led the coroner to order an autopsy. It was found the girl had been poisoned by embalming fluid, which had entered her pores when she became overheated from dancing. The pawnbroker was reluctant to admit that he knew where the dress had come from, but spoke out when he heard that the district attorney's office was involved. It had been sold to him by an undertaker's assistant, who had taken it from the body of a dead girl, just before the casket was nailed down for the last time."
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