It was so full of terror and despair that even the hardened ears that heard it felt a sudden pain.

But they were used to such things in that region, and no one took the trouble to learn what it meant.

Even the policeman moving on his beat stood listening for only a moment, and then passed on.
Next day, in the local columns of a city paper, appeared the following: "FOUL PLAY .-- About eleven o'clock last night the body of a beautiful young girl, who could not have been over seventeen years of age, was discovered lying on the pavement in----street.

No one knew how she came there.

She was quite dead when found.