True! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them.
Tale-Tell Heart
The man is asleep so he cant get the eye
The man smuthers him under the matress
Villains! I shrieked, dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!
The man dissmembers his body and hides him under planks
A shriek had been heard by a neighbour during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused;