Select the correct text in the passage. Which three sentences in this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" show that the narrator feels his crime will not be discovered?
When I had made an end of these labors, it was four o'clock-still dark as midnight. As the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the
street door. I went down to open it with a light heart--for what had I now to fear? There entered three men, who introduced themselves; with
perfect suavity, as officers of the police. A shriek had been heard by a nelghbour during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused;
information had been lodged at the police office, and they (the officers) had been deputed to search the premises.
I smiled,- for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was
absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search-search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed
them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from
their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the
corpse of the victim.