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"I turned her gently over, placed my hands upon her breast to

calm her and keep her down, and looked into her face. Her eyes

were dilated and wild, and she constantly uttered piercing

shrieks, and repeated the words, 'My husband, my father, and my

brother!' and then counted up to twelve, and said, 'Hush!' For an

instant, and no more, she would pause to listen, and then the

piercing shrieks would begin again, and she would repeat the cry,

'My husband, my father, and my brother!' and would count up to

twelve, and say, 'Hush!' There was no variation in the order, or

the manner. There was no cessation, but the regular moment's

pause, in the utterance of these sounds.

"'How long,' I asked, 'has this lasted?'

"To distinguish the brothers, I will call them the elder and the

younger; by the elder, I mean him who exercised the most

authority. It was the elder who replied, 'Since about this hour

last night.'

"'She has a husband, a father, and a brother?'

"'A brother.'

"'I do not address her brother?'