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70%u201cThank you. Please help me to the hatch,%u201d Elaine said.%u201cDarling. Please don%u2019t do this. I cannot stand the thought of you being down there alone and so weak still. Wait till you feel stronger and we can go down together.%u201d David told her.Elaine shook her head and stroked his face. %u201cThis is something I must do alone. Tell Claire about the Octopus while I%u2019m gone. I will be just fine.%u201dThey helped her to the hatch. She sat on the wooden floor with her legs dangling down into the dark interior of the cellar and struggled to remove her dressing gown. She gave it to David saying, %u201cI don%u2019t want it covered with cobwebs.%u201dClaire and David watched Elaine as she switched on the torch, and carrying the matchbox clutched in her other hand, slowly descended into the dark, gloomy cellar.They heard her call up. %u201cI%u2019m safely down. Please close the hatch and come back in an hour. I should be ready to come out then.%u201dDavid shut the hatch and looked at Claire. She saw his concern.%u201cShe seems to know what%u2019s she%u2019s doing. If she%u2019s not back in an hour, we%u2019ll go down and get her.%u201d She told him.%u201cDo you know what%u2019s down there?%u201d he asked her.%u201cNo. We lifted the hatch one day, meaning to take a look, and left it open intending to go down the next morning. Like Elaine, a huge spider inserted sperm into me that very night. Derek shut it for good and we had the toilet installed,%u201d she replied.The cellar was dark. Elaine was horrified to see, as she shone the torch around, that it was so filled with huge spider webs that looking through it was like staring into fog. The torchlight was thrown back at her so she directed the beam down towards the ground. It helped her see Spider