The Tiger

Newland explains that mind-over-matter does not really explained what happened in that house.

Miss Cartwright is a governess to a young girl named Pamela. The young girl likes tigers and has a stuffed tiger toy.

The governess fires the woman that had been looking out for the young girl.

Cartwright tells the girl that she is going to find a punishment room for her. She picks a basement room. She throws the girls stuffed tiger into the fire but the girl grabs it out right away. The girl had been told by the other woman about imagination and now she's trying to do something with hers.

There are claw marks on one of the doors in the house. The girl is taking French lessons from Cartwright who continues to be nasty to her. Then there's more damage and a policeman investigates. Cartwright calls the little girl a pathological liar. The girl says she had heard a tiger in the house.

The girl is trying to learn how to curtsy and Cartwright is still nasty to her.

Then they find that a chair has been ripped up. The girl tells Cartwright that she wished the tiger into being.

Cartwright tells the girl she's going to go to the movies and dine out. She turns out the lights in the punishment room.

Cartwright gets back and finds her room and clothes torn up.

Cartwright grabs something (wood?) and threatens to hit the girl. The girl tells her the tiger is right behind her and will kill her if she attacks the young girl. The autopsy showed no physical damage to Cartwright's body so the judgment was made that she died of heart failure.


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