This action, by an animal which I had thought still lovedme, made me angry beyond reason. My soul seemed to fly from mybody. I took a small knife out of my coat and opened it. Then I tookthe poor animal by the neck and with one quick movement I cut outone of its fear-filled eyes!
One day, in cold blood, I tied a strong rope around the cat’s neck,and taking it down into the cellar under the house I hung it from oneof the wood beams above my head. I hung it there until it was dead.I hung it there with tears in my eyes, I hung it because I knew it hadloved me, because I felt it had given me no reason to hurt it, becauseI knew that my doing so was a wrong so great, a sin so deadly that itwould place my soul forever outside the reach of the love of God!
“The walls of this building,” I said, “are very strongly built; it is afine old house.” And as I spoke I struck with my stick that very placein the wall behind which was the body of my wife. Immediately I felt acold feeling up and down my back as we heard coming out of the wallitself a horrible cry.For one short moment the officers stood looking at each other.Then quickly they began to pick at the stones, and in a short timethey saw before them the body of my wife, black with dried blood andsmelling of decay. On the body’s head, its one eye filled with fire, itswide open mouth the color of blood, sat the cat, crying out its revenge!
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