A Night in Old Paris
In a seventeenth-century Paris tavern, a group of torturers trade stories. The mistress recognizes one man as her former lover, who abandoned her while she was pregnant. She realizes the young man he boasts of torturing to death was their son. She keeps her former lover for another drink, secretly poisons him and reveals the truth as he dies. The tavern door bursts open, and the son’s ghost arrives to claim the torturer’s soul.