All this time I sat listening and listening, and hardly dared to breathe.

At length I started up and took the bell-rope in my hands.

At that minute there rang--not that bell, for I had hardly touched the rope--but another! 'I heard the ringing of another bell, and a deep bell too, plainly.

It was only for an instant, and even then the wind carried the sound away, but I heard it.

I listened for a long time, but it rang no more.