<P> Miriam fires Velma, who later returns to discover that Charlotte is being drugged . Miriam sees the housekeeper trying to take Charlotte out of the house . The two argue at the top of the stairs . Velma tries to escape, but knowing that Velma has discovered the drugs, Miriam smashes a chair over her head . Velma falls down the stairs to her death . </P> <P> One night, a drugged Charlotte runs downstairs in the grip of a hallucination, believing John has returned to her . Miriam and Drew trick Charlotte into shooting Drew with a gun loaded with blanks, and then Miriam helps dispose of the "body" in a swamp . Charlotte returns to the house and sees the supposedly dead Drew at the top of the stairs, reducing her to whimpering insanity . </P> <P> Now believing Charlotte completely mad and secure in her room, Miriam and Drew go into the garden to discuss their plan: to drive Charlotte insane to get her money . Miriam also tells Drew that back in 1927 she saw Jewel murder her husband . She's been using this knowledge to blackmail Jewel throughout the years while plotting to gain possession of Charlotte's wealth . </P> <P> Charlotte overhears the plan . She moves toward a huge stone urn on the ledge of the balcony directly over the lovers' heads . Miriam embraces Drew, then she looks up and becomes paralyzed by the sight of Charlotte's tipping the stone urn off the ledge, crushing both to death . </P>

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