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"It's true, every word of it," said his listener with considerable satisfaction, adding as a special descriptive note of her own, "the old toad." And as she hobbled away through the farmyard she shrilled out in her cracked voice, "Martha Pillamon is an old witch!" "Did you hear what she said?" mumbled a weak, angry voice somewhere behind Crefton's shoulder.
"Martha Pillamon is an old witch" was the announcement that met Crefton's inquiring scrutiny, and he hesitated a moment before giving the statement wider publicity. For all he knew to the contrary, it might be Martha herself to whom he was speaking. It was possible that Mrs. Spurfield's maiden name had been Pillamon.
She spoke in a dull impersonal manner, as though the question had been on her lips for years and had best be got rid of. Her eyes, however, looked impatiently over Crefton's head at the door of a small barn which formed the outpost of a straggling line of farm buildings.
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