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A rancher claims he killed his Chinese worker over a simple task, but a local witness tells another story.
A mother is murdered, a father vanishes, and three accounts tell different parts of what happened.
A man meets a hypnotist he distrusts, then sees his fiancée arrive in town without warning.
A jealous sexton blames his wife for every storm that sends a young traveler to their isolated hut.
A newly made Irish baronet competes with a French neighbor for a widow and mistakes every sign for proof that she favors him.
A suspicious husband takes his wife on a nocturnal hunt, convinced the quarry will expose her betrayal.
A jealous man insists he is sane while recounting the obsession that made him turn against his lover and her horse.
A night of torch fishing on the Algerian coast leads an old school friend to disclose the jealousy that drove him from France.
At a crowded riverside resort, a young man’s absolute devotion collides with a lover whose desires he cannot control or understand.
A husband’s teasing questions about his wife’s first marriage turn posthumous jealousy into a dangerous demand for honesty.
At her deathbed, a devoted younger sister asks forgiveness for the secret that has shaped both women’s lives.
On a storm-lashed Norman night, a fisherman’s friend keeps filling his glass while someone waits at the drunkard’s home.
A confident Parisian explains how two carefully scheduled affairs collapsed through a silent exchange of pins in his bedroom.
A smug husband decides he would recognize any sign of adultery and devises a test that may prove more than he wants to know.
An ironmaster invites his wife’s lover on a midnight tour of the furnaces, where every display of heat carries a threat.
A New Orleans agent visits a Louisiana plantation and grows close to a woman already engaged to a local painter.
At a Cajun ball, a farmer watches the woman he loves draw the attention of a wealthy planter.
A timid pharmacist helps his rival elope with the woman they both love by preparing a very questionable love potion.
A cuckoo clock takes sides in a failing marriage and refuses to behave like the possession its owner thinks he bought.
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