The tell-tale heart

Léo Labrousse

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Police report :

We were around 4 o'clock in the morning when we were called by a man who said he heard a cry at his neighbours' house at night, so we went there to do a check and to find out if there was any danger. Once we got there a man opened his door for us, he looked confident and was in great shape when it was 4:00 a.m., we were three and asked if we could do a little check-up in his house to see if everything was going well, indeed we wanted to make sure that the cry heard by a neighbor came indeed from a dream as the man having us opened his door had told us.So the man opened his door for us and we started to inspect every room, throughout the inspection the man was rather friendly and even helped us to inspect every corner of the house, he then took us to the room of the one he called "the old man" and suggested we to sit down. After that, we spoke with the man because he seemed to us honest and very friendly, after a moment the man began to behave strangely and became very pale, he spoke more and more and more loudly while we did not change our attitude. He continued and began to have trouble breathing, he waved, made big gestures and suddenly confessed to us that the one he called "the old man" was hidden under the floor and that he had killed him because his eye frightened him like an eye of "vulture"

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