Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. I had walled the monster up within the tomb
He deserves this! Because he looked him up in the tomb with his wife the cat was the reason that she was discovered. The cat not only led him to murder or at least enrage him too, but it also succeeded in taking away his life.