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Excerpt from Goddesses Three, Vol. 1 of 2: A NovelThat cry was the keynote Of a tragedy and no one could have heard it without realizing its significance.The hour was so late that the inmates of the house had, most of them, long been sunk in sleep, and the moonlight shone On the blank panes of the windows, from which all the lights had died out but in an oriel corresponding to the one from which the alarm had come, the yellow glow Of artificial light was yet to be seen, and within this room a student sat reading by a shaded lamp. The young man, who was powerfully built, and Of proportions so immense as to be almost Titanesque, was bending over a heavy, ancient-looking volume of dry-as-dust appearance, and he was completely absorbed in it - so completely as to have become entirely oblivious of the flight of time, and the waning light of the lamp in which the Oil was getting low; but at the sound of the pistol-shot he looked up with a start, and as the cry which succeeded it fell upon his ear, he sprang to his feet.Great Scott! What was that P' he exclaimed in the English language. 'something has happened!' He paused, listening intently; and through the window, the lattice of which was partly open, there came again that terrible cry - the heart rending shriek of a woman calling for help. It came again and again, apparently from outside; but as it rose higher and higher, a dreadful thought flashed suddenly into the listener's mind. He dashed out of the room, and down the spiral stairs, then up again by another Winding flight, and he did not stop until he reached the room from which the screams came. A gray-haired man-servant was before him, and was standing at the door, which he vainly tried to open.It is locked, Herr Baron,' said the old man, in a shaking voice. 'we cannot get in, and the Baroness is screaming so that she does not seem to hear. What can have happened P' The younger man flung himself against the door with all the force of his immense size and strength.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.