THE BIG BOOK OF SPOOKY TALES - Horror Classics Anthology. Эдгар Аллан По

      "Speak! speak!" resounded the answer of the rabbi from the men's seats below. "You may now speak!"

      But no reply came. Veile had fallen back into her seat, pressing both hands against her breast. When the women sitting beside her looked at her they were terrified to find that the "silent woman" had fainted. She was dead! The unsealing of her lips was her last moment.

      Long years afterwards the rabbi died. On his death-bed he told those standing about him this wonderful penance of Veile.

      Every girl in the gasse knew the story of the "silent woman."