The Pit and the Pendulum

The pit and the pendulum, starring Mr. Raymond Burr. A tail well calculated to keep you in. Sauspence. Sick and death was that long agony. When at length they unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me.

The sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy and determinate hum, from which emerged the syllables of my name. John Delbre Captain John Delbre. Good Father's. Gentlemen. We hear you, my son. Even now I have no knowledge of where I am, or to whom I may be speaking.

You are speaking to Fra Pedro de Espila, prior of the Dominicans of Segovia, and grand inquisitor for all Spain. This then is the court of the Inquisition. It is. But I am French. I am a French officer.

That is true. The soldier and creature of the arch fiend, the Antichrist, Napoleon Bonaparte. We were now at the gates of Madrid while his general La Salle menaces our city of Toledo itself. Nonetheless, I am a prisoner of war By what right you'd try me in this court.

Let the charges against the prisoners be read. Item that on the fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord 1808, the set captain Jean-Dalbray, did wed and espoused that most noble lady, the D'Onnier-Bertris Valdez, niece and ward of the eloc- One moment.

Your Excellency. This marriage was a deplorable thing, if you like. but lawful marriage, however regrettable in a case like this, is no sin or crime. There are other matters in the inductive. Then continue, but give us nothing that is not material.

Item, that on the 12th of October 1808, the said John Del Grey, being in command of a battery of light artillery, did direct the fire of his guns against the Holy Church of Santa Marta, the innocent, And thereby, of his wicked malice destroyed that church utterly.