All places were alike accessible to this foe, or if his empire were restricted by local bounds, those bounds were utterly inscrutable by me.

But had I not been told by some one in league with this enemy, that every place but the recess in the bank was exempt from danger?
I returned to the closet, and once more put my hand upon the lock.

O! may my ears lose their sensibility, ere they be again assailed by a shriek so terrible! Not merely my understanding was subdued by the sound: it acted on my nerves like an edge of steel.

It appeared to cut asunder the fibres of my brain, and rack every joint with agony.
The cry, loud and piercing as it was, was nevertheless human.

No articulation was ever more distinct.