As she has slowly moved along she has left it streaming across the pillows.

The pause lasted about a minute--oh, what an age of agony.

That minute was, indeed, enough for madness to do its full work in.
With a sudden rush that could not be foreseen--with a strange howling cry that was enough to awaken terror in every breast, the figure seized the long tresses of her hair, and twining them round his bony hands he held her to the bed.

Then she screamed--Heaven granted her then power to scream.

Shriek followed shriek in rapid succession.