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In Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart', the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his 'vulture eye'. His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police.