'There was a look in her eyes to-night that told me the time was come when----' The thought died unfinished in his brain.

Through the silent house, across the placid lake, there rang a wild, shrill cry that froze the blood in his veins, or seemed so to freeze it--a shriek of agony, and in a woman's voice.

It rang out from an open window near his own.

The sound seemed close to his ear..