“I tried how steadily I could maintain the ray upon the eye… the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant… It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!... the sound would be heard by a neighbor!...The old man’s hour had come!... he was stone, stone dead.His eye would trouble me no more…
(Sightline 8, page 25)
“The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence…I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber... then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye…could have detected any thing... “
(Sightline 8, page 25)
…it was four o ‘clock… there came a knocking at the street door…There entered three men…introduced themselves…as officers of the police…A shriek had been heard by a neighbor…I bade the gentlemen welcome… The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country… search well… I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues,...