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She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in ard enmity to her quiet of mind

Another soon came

The second was quite different from the first--a kind of intermittent whistle it seemed primarily: no, a creak, a h, or a rusty wheelbarrow, or at least a wheel of some kind Yes, it was, a wheel--the water-wheel in the shrubbery by the old manor-house, which the coachman had said would drive hiloos; but now that she had once noticed the sound there was no sealing her ears to it She could not help ti on a dread expectancy just before the end of each half-ine-house, whence these noises proceeded, was now a necessity No , but crevices in the door, through which, probably, the moonbeams strea sharply upon portions of wet rusty cranks and chains; a glistening wheel, turning incessantly, labouring in the dark like a captive starving in a dungeon; and instead of a floor below, gurgling water, which on account of the darkness could only be heard; water which laboured up dark pipes almost to where she lay

She shivered Now she was deter else left to be heard or to iination should be so restless Yet just for an instant before going to sleep she would think this--suppose another sound _should_ coht had well passed through her brain, a third sound cae and abnormal kind--yet a sound she had heard before at some past period of her life--when, she could not recollect To , it seemed to be almost close to her--either close outside the , close under the floor, or close above the ceiling The accidental fact of its co so immediately upon the heels of her supposition, told so powerfully upon her excited nerves that she ju in so probably heard the sa in the yard, hearing the an to howl loudly and distinctly His s in the kennel a long way off, in every variety of wail