The Black Cat; Part II

The second part of Edgar Allan Poe's acclaimed short story. Where a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable... until he reveals himself.

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On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was aroused from sleep by the cry of “fire”. The curtains of my bed were in flames and the whole house was blazing. It was with great difficulty that my wife, a servant, and myself, made our escape from the conflagration. The destruction was complete. My entire worldly wealth was swallowed up, and I resigned myself thenceforward to despair.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. But I am detailing a chain of facts, and wish not to leave even a possible link imperfect. On the day succeeding the fire, I visited the ruins. The walls, with one exception, had fallen in.