Possible Clues:

• Ominous tolling
• Poor Kathleen stops totally heartless devil passing on ring
• Exit toll
• What could conjure up the end, all bleak finally
• Finish for good with Nell reportedly we hear in passing
• The Lakeland, losing a small area, is devastated — it's a portent
• Terminal strikes
• Without energy, Helen talked about a bell ringing
• Passing on ring, gutless devil overwhelms poor Kathleen
• Little in Dickens of this sound for her passing (5, 5)