The House Of The Seven Gables Page #5

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Even Hepzibah knows that.

But she conceals her sympathy

for fear of your displeasure.

That it is untrue!

You dare to call me a liar?

As long as I stay alive, I am the head

of this house, and it shall not be sold!

For the last year your conduct has

brought us nothing but shame.

Disgraceful scenes in public.

You have humiliated me

beyond all endurance.

Now I command you to

leave this house. At once!

You are no longer my son.

I want never again to see your face.

That's the easiest way to

get out of a promise.

Out! .. out ..

Father!

Father!

Hepzibah! Jaffrey!

Clifford!

I don't know what happened ..

Suddenly, he fell ..

We'd better send for Doctor Willett.

It's too late.

Murderer.

Jaffrey .. you don't know

what you're saying.

You can't mean that, Jaffrey.

Don't let grief cloud your reason.

Don't sound like one carved in granite,

Jaffrey .. say you are mistaken.

I see.

The house is ours now.

Yours and mine.

Me out of the way.

You fool!

You can't press such charges. No

jury on earth would convict me.

Murderer!

If killing a money-mad

fool is murder, then yes ..

Don't, don't .. don't!

Murder!

He tried to kill him, I tell you.

Who?

Clifford Pyncheon.

Gentlemen of the jury.

The State has charged Clifford Pyncheon

with the murder of his father.

Both the Prosecution and Defense,

have fully presented their cases.

Before retiring in an attempt

to reach your verdict ..

I wish to remind you that your duty

is to consider only matters of facts.

My instructions will be few.

You are to decide, solely upon

the evidence presented ..

Whether the defendant

committed the crime.

The Defense has sought to prove that

Gerald Pyncheon died as the result of ..

A sudden illness .. a constriction

of the throat, a paralysis.

The Defense alleges this occurred as

the result of a violent verbal quarrel.

That it was brought about by anger.

The Prosecution has offered testimony

by which it hopes to prove ..

Beyond any reasonable doubt,

the guilt of the defendant.

They called upon Dr Willett, for

years, physician to the deceased.

Dr Willett has testified the deceased

exhibited no symptoms of the ailment ..

The Defense alleges to have existed.

The State further offers in evidence

the testimony of The Coroner.

Who confirms that allegation.

That the deceased suffered a severe

blow on the head .. prior to death.

The defendant has admitted being in

the room with his father at the time.

Swearing that no blow was delivered

with the paperweight given in evidence.

On which blood stains were found.

It has been sworn before you as truth ..

That upon one occasion, the defendant

cried aloud in a public square:

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