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The
sailor
had
recovered
his
presence
of
mind
,
in
a
great
measure
,
while
Dupin
uttered
these
words
;
but
his
original
boldness
of
bearing
was
all
gone
.
"
So
help
me
God
,
"
said
he
,
after
a
brief
pause
,
"
I
will
tell
you
all
I
know
about
this
affair
;
--
but
I
do
not
expect
you
to
believe
one
half
I
say
--
I
would
be
a
fool
indeed
if
I
did
.
Still
,
I
am
innocent
,
and
I
will
make
a
clean
breast
if
I
die
for
it
.
"
What
he
stated
was
,
in
substance
,
this
.
He
had
lately
made
a
voyage
to
the
Indian
Archipelago
.
A
party
,
of
which
he
formed
one
,
landed
at
Borneo
,
and
passed
into
the
interior
on
an
excursion
of
pleasure
.
Himself
and
a
companion
had
captured
the
Ourang-Outang
.
This
companion
dying
,
the
animal
fell
into
his
own
exclusive
possession
.
After
great
trouble
,
occasioned
by
the
intractable
ferocity
of
his
captive
during
the
home
voyage
,
he
at
length
succeeded
in
lodging
it
safely
at
his
own
residence
in
Paris
,
where
,
not
to
attract
toward
himself
the
unpleasant
curiosity
of
his
neighbors
,
he
kept
it
carefully
secluded
,
until
such
time
as
it
should
recover
from
a
wound
in
the
foot
,
received
from
a
splinter
on
board
ship
.
His
ultimate
design
was
to
sell
it
.
Returning
home
from
some
sailors
'
frolic
on
the
night
,
or
rather
in
the
morning
of
the
murder
,
he
found
the
beast
occupying
his
own
bed-room
,
into
which
it
had
broken
from
a
closet
adjoining
,
where
it
had
been
,
as
was
thought
,
securely
confined
.
Razor
in
hand
,
and
fully
lathered
,
it
was
sitting
before
a
looking-glass
,
attempting
the
operation
of
shaving
,
in
which
it
had
no
doubt
previously
watched
its
master
through
the
key-hole
of
the
closet
.
Terrified
at
the
sight
of
so
dangerous
a
weapon
in
the
possession
of
an
animal
so
ferocious
,
and
so
well
able
to
use
it
,
the
man
,
for
some
moments
,
was
at
a
loss
what
to
do
.
He
had
been
accustomed
,
however
,
to
quiet
the
creature
,
even
in
its
fiercest
moods
,
by
the
use
of
a
whip
,
and
to
this
he
now
resorted
.
Upon
sight
of
it
,
the
Ourang-Outang
sprang
at
once
through
the
door
of
the
chamber
,
down
the
stairs
,
and
thence
,
through
a
window
,
unfortunately
open
,
into
the
street
.
The
Frenchman
followed
in
despair
;
the
ape
,
razor
still
in
hand
,
occasionally
stopping
to
look
back
and
gesticulate
at
its
pursuer
,
until
the
latter
had
nearly
come
up
with
it
.
It
then
again
made
off
.
In
this
manner
the
chase
continued
for
a
long
time
.
The
streets
were
profoundly
quiet
,
as
it
was
nearly
three
o'clock
in
the
morning
.
In
passing
down
an
alley
in
the
rear
of
the
Rue
Morgue
,
the
fugitive
's
attention
was
arrested
by
a
light
gleaming
from
the
open
window
of
Madame
L'Espanaye
's
chamber
,
in
the
fourth
story
of
her
house
.
Rushing
to
the
building
,
it
perceived
the
lightning-rod
,
clambered
up
with
inconceivable
agility
,
grasped
the
shutter
,
which
was
thrown
fully
back
against
the
wall
,
and
,
by
its
means
,
swung
itself
directly
upon
the
headboard
of
the
bed
.
The
whole
feat
did
not
occupy
a
minute
.
The
shutter
was
kicked
open
again
by
the
Ourang-Outang
as
it
entered
the
room
.
The
sailor
,
in
the
meantime
,
was
both
rejoiced
and
perplexed
.
He
had
strong
hopes
of
now
recapturing
the
brute
,
as
it
could
scarcely
escape
from
the
trap
into
which
it
had
ventured
,
except
by
the
rod
,
where
it
might
be
intercepted
as
it
came
down
.
On
the
other
hand
,
there
was
much
cause
for
anxiety
as
to
what
it
might
do
in
the
house
.
This
latter
reflection
urged
the
man
still
to
follow
the
fugitive
.
A
lightning-rod
is
ascended
without
difficulty
,
especially
by
a
sailor
;
but
,
when
he
had
arrived
as
high
as
the
window
,
which
lay
far
to
his
left
,
his
career
was
stopped
;
the
most
that
he
could
accomplish
was
to
reach
over
so
as
to
obtain
a
glimpse
of
the
interior
of
the
room
.
At
this
glimpse
he
nearly
fell
from
his
hold
through
excess
of
horror
.
Now
it
was
that
those
hideous
shrieks
arose
upon
the
night
,
which
had
startled
from
slumber
the
inmates
of
the
Rue
Morgue
.
Madame
L'Espanaye
and
her
daughter
,
habited
in
their
night
clothes
,
had
apparently
been
arranging
some
papers
in
the
iron
chest
already
mentioned
,
which
had
been
wheeled
into
the
middle
of
the
room
.
It
was
open
,
and
its
contents
lay
beside
it
on
the
floor
.
The
victims
must
have
been
sitting
with
their
backs
toward
the
window
;
and
,
from
the
time
elapsing
between
the
ingress
of
the
beast
and
the
screams
,
it
seems
probable
that
it
was
not
immediately
perceived
.
The
flapping-to
of
the
shutter
would
naturally
have
been
attributed
to
the
wind
.
As
the
sailor
looked
in
,
the
gigantic
animal
had
seized
Madame
L'Espanaye
by
the
hair
,
(
which
was
loose
,
as
she
had
been
combing
it
,
)
and
was
flourishing
the
razor
about
her
face
,
in
imitation
of
the
motions
of
a
barber
.
The
daughter
lay
prostrate
and
motionless
;
she
had
swooned
.
The
screams
and
struggles
of
the
old
lady
(
during
which
the
hair
was
torn
from
her
head
)
had
the
effect
of
changing
the
probably
pacific
purposes
of
the
Ourang-Outang
into
those
of
wrath
.
With
one
determined
sweep
of
its
muscular
arm
it
nearly
severed
her
head
from
her
body
.
The
sight
of
blood
inflamed
its
anger
into
phrenzy
.
Gnashing
its
teeth
,
and
flashing
fire
from
its
eves
,
it
flew
upon
the
body
of
the
girl
,
and
imbedded
its
fearful
talons
in
her
throat
,
retaining
its
grasp
until
she
expired
.
Its
wandering
and
wild
glances
fell
at
this
moment
upon
the
head
of
the
bed
,
over
which
the
face
of
its
master
,
rigid
with
horror
,
was
just
discernible
.
The
fury
of
the
beast
,
who
no
doubt
bore
still
in
mind
the
dreaded
whip
,
was
instantly
converted
into
fear
.
Conscious
of
having
deserved
punishment
,
it
seemed
desirous
of
concealing
its
bloody
deeds
,
and
skipped
about
the
chamber
in
an
agony
of
nervous
agitation
;
throwing
down
and
breaking
the
furniture
as
it
moved
,
and
dragging
the
bed
from
the
bedstead
.
In
conclusion
,
it
seized
first
the
corpse
of
the
daughter
,
and
thrust
it
up
the
chimney
,
as
it
was
found
;
then
that
of
the
old
lady
,
which
it
immediately
hurled
through
the
window
headlong
.
