" "And, on her palace top, The lonely owl with oft repeated scream Complains, and spins into a dismal length Her baleful shrieks.

No sooner did the usual scream escape Kitty's lips than, quick as thought, the boy broke from the woman's grasp, and, rushing upon his sister's tormentor, laid the little savage in the dust and pummeled him well.

Then she turned, and a cry that was almost a scream rang from her lips.

In the same moment of time, the whistling had burst into a mad screaming note, that seemed to stun me, even where I stood, outside of the window.