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"When all others hated him, we were kind to the old sinner, and it has done him no good." "Ah, but has it done thee good? There's the question," said Darrel, his hand upon the boy's arm. "I believe it has," said Trove, with a look of surprise. "It was thee I thought of, boy; I had never much thought o' him." That moment Trove saw farther into the depth of Darrel's heart than ever before.
I was bought along with my mother by old Captain Darrel, and given to his grandchild, little Miss Betsey Williams. Captain Williams, Mr. Darrel's son-in-law, was master of a vessel which traded to several places in America and the West Indies, and he was seldom at home long together. Mrs. Williams was a kind-hearted good woman, and she treated all her slaves well.
"Of course," murmured the Special Messenger, gently tapping her riding skirt with her whip. "Because," continued the Colonel, "headquarters is stripping this depot of troops. The Bucktails go to-day; Casson's New York brigade and Darrel's cavalry left yesterday. What remains is a mighty small garrison for a big supply depot eleven hundred effectives, and they may take some of them at any moment.
It deals only with the Puritan movement if Darrel's work may be so called and does not treat the Catholic exorcists. We have omitted the performances of Father Weston and his coadjutors because they had little or no relation to the subject of witchcraft.
Certainly it was accepted by Harsnett, who may be called the official reporter of the proceedings at Darrel's trial, as substantially true. The publication of the Discovery by Harsnett proved indeed to be only the beginning of a pamphlet controversy which Darrel and his supporters were but too willing to take up. Harsnett himself after his first onslaught did not re-enter the contest.
Professor Ruggles then proceeded to make an examination of the wound in Nell Darrel's head. He was gratified to discover that the bullet had merely glanced across the girl's skull without making a necessarily dangerous wound. "I will take the girl out of this while you dispose of the detective," said Ruggles. "Be sure and fix him so that he will give no trouble in the future."
He went with his friend to the hotel, however, and soon the two were in the privacy of Dyke Darrel's room. "Now, then, let us look at that coat." Harry Bernard laid the garment down on the bed, and Darrel began a close examination of the same. It was an ordinary sack coat, with two inside pockets. The detective was not long in going through the pockets. "Ah!" The ejaculation was significant.
When in the vicinity of where he believed the man had left the train, Darrel's quick eye caught sight of a group of men standing under a shed, on the further side of a distant field. "There is some cause of excitement over yonder," remarked Dyke Darrel, as he drew rein, and pointed with his whip. "It seems to mean something," admitted Elliston. "I propose to investigate."
We saw that at the end of the sixteenth century the Anglican church stepped in to put down the exorcizing of spirits, largely perhaps because it had been carried on by Catholics and by a Puritan clergyman. Yet neither Harsnett's book nor Darrel's imprisonment quite availed to end a practice which offered at all times to all comers a path to notoriety.
A little castle-soape Will do 't, to rub your lips: And then a nutshell, With toe and touchwood in it to spit fire, Did you ner'e read, Sir, little Darrel's tricks, With the boy o' Burton, and the 7 in Lancashire, Sommers at Nottingham? All these do teach it. And wee'l give out, Sir, that your wife ha's bewitch'd you.
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