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The ill-omened pile ultimately came into the possession of the Nutter family, but it was never tenanted, until assigned, as I have already mentioned, to Mother Demdike." The chirurgeon's marvellous story was listened to with great attention by his auditors.
Half an hour after this, two of the arquebussiers returned with Hal o' Nabs, whom they had succeeded in capturing after a desperate resistance, about a mile from the abbey, on the road to Wiswall. He was taken to the guard-room, which had been appointed in one of the lower chambers of the chapter-house, and Demdike was immediately apprised of his arrival.
"Oh, Jennet!" exclaimed the elder of the two, "is there no means of escape?" "None whatever," replied the other. "Yo mun stay here till Granny Demdike cums fo ye." "Oh! that the earth would open and snatch me from these horrors," cried Alizon. "My reason is forsaking me. Would I could kneel and pray for deliverance! But something prevents me." "Reet!" replied Jennet.
Do you imagine that this stream can have changed its course in a single night; or that yon sheepfold has been removed to the further side of it?" "I do," replied Nowell. "And so do I," cried Potts; "it has been accomplished by the aid of " But feeling himself checked by a glance from the reeve, he stammered out, "of of Mother Demdike."
The first time Mother Demdike was dismissed without the customary dole, one of his millstones broke, and, instead of taking this as a warning, he became more obstinate. She came a second time, and he sent her away with curses. Then all his flour grew damp and musty, and no one would buy it. Still he remained obstinate, and, when she appeared again, he would have laid hands upon her.
"Lost!" cried the abbot, out of all patience. "Lost! Look around. Twenty fires are in sight ay, thirty, and every fire thou seest will summon a hundred men, at the least, to arms. Before an hour, five hundred men will be gathered before the gates of Whalley Abbey." "True," replied Demdike; "but they will not own the Earl of Poverty for their leader."
And making one or two passes with her hands, Mistress Nutter dropped the weapon, and instantly became fixed and motionless, with her daughter, equally rigid, in her arms. They looked as if suddenly turned to marble. "Now to complete the ceremonial," cried Mother Demdike, picking up the knife.
All the complainants taxed either Mother Demdike or Mother Chattox with afflicting them, and said they had incurred the anger of the two malevolent old witches by refusing to supply them with poultry, eggs, milk, butter, or other articles, which they had demanded. Master Potts made ample notes of the strange relations, and took down the name of every cottager.
Arrangements were made for this purpose; but when the time came, she refused to go, and was brought secretly back to the hut near Barley, where she has been ever since, though her place of concealment was hidden even from you and her daughter." "The captain of the robbers, Fogg or Demdike, escaped did he not?" said Richard.
"But what of Mother Demdike?" pursued the hag. "Hast thou no comfort for me? Tell me her hour is likewise come, and I will forgive thee. But do not let her triumph over me." The familiar made no answer, but, laughing derisively, stamped upon the ground, and it opened to receive him.
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