The String of Pearls (1850), p. 265

sufficiently explicit to enable Sir Richard Blunt to come to a different conclusion.
"I will listen for it again," he thought.
After a few moments more he was rewarded for his patience by not only hearing another groan, but a voice, in accents of the most woe-begone character, said—

JOHANNA'S FAREWELL OF HER FATHER PRIOR TO HER ENCOUNTER WITH TODD.{Figure}

"I cannot sleep. It is of no avail. Alas! who dare sleep here! God help
me, for I am past all human aid."
"Who on earth can this be?'' said the magistrate to himself.
"It would be better for them to kill me at once," continued the voice. "Anything would be preferable to this continued horror; but I suppose they have not