And it was the voice of a human beinga loved, well-remembered voicethat of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it spoke in pain and woe, wildly, eerily, urgently.

Yet there was no response, save that in the lulls Scundoo's voice rose eerily in incantation.

Margaret's face was pale as she bent toward him, her lips parted a little, her eyes glinting eerily in the firelight.

It had been an unsuccessful day; we had found no treasure, not even the World's End; the night had fallen damp, with an eerily sighing wind which depressed us vaguely as we trudged homewards; but now, the black night shut out, there was the fire-light and the lamp-light, the kind old voice, and the delicious sense of having come home.

An old Mohammedan crooned eerily, impressively, a lament which echoed round and round the vault.

An eerily vivid flash of lightning dispelled for a moment the gloom of the dusk as the two men clasped hands.

Eerily it tripped and chimed and lilted to its close, and the Maestro swung about and faced them, smiling still, quizzically.

The walls bore notices with a black hand pointing downwards to the cellar steps, and the big room echoed eerily to the footsteps of customers, who tramped across the tiled floor and disappeared downstairs to the vaults.

He was half-way up the drive when the first flash of lightning glimmered eerily across the heavy gloom.

The echo of the slamming door rang eerily through the house.

His mirth floats eerily down chill corridors; His sighit is a sound that loves a keyhole; His tenderness a faint court-tarnished thing; His wisdom prates as from a wicker cage; His very belly is a pompous nought; His eye a page that hath forgot his errand.

As if an echo of that thunderous, far explosion, a faint wailing of voicesechoing from very far abovedrifted eerily along the passage; voices in blended rage and fear, in hate, agony, despair.