Beginning:
''It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night." A madman plans a murder to kill a old man that has not put him in any harm and has never wrong him. The old mans blue vulture eye vexed the madman.
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| The madman kills the old man with a mattress and chops him up into pieces and stuffs him under the floorboards. | The police officers knock on the door because they heard a shriek. They come in and look around the house. The police officers sit down and talk to the madman but they don't suspect anything but innocence from the madman. |
The madman kills the old man with a mattress and chops him up into pieces and stuffs him under the floorboards.
The police officers knock on the door because they heard a shriek. They come in and look around the house. The police officers sit down and talk to the madman but they don't suspect anything but innocence from the madman.
End:
"dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!" He starts to hear the old man's heart beat thinking that the police hear it ass well. So the madman confesses the murder after the police believe that he was innocent.