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"This is a pretty mysterious case in some respects. I rode over myself this morning to look into a few points and I shall be glad to have some help though I'm afraid we'll not find anything that'll please you." "Anything pleases me, so long as it's the truth," Terry threw off, as he studied the sheriff, with a gleam of amusement in his eyes; he was thinking, I knew, of Polly Mathers.
Among the earliest to be arrested and examined was Goodwife Cory. Mr. Mr. Noyes. Such was the crisis when Sir William Phips landed on the 14th of May, 1692; he was the Mathers' tool, and the result could have been foretold. Uneducated and credulous, he was as clay in the hands of his creators; and his first executive act was to cause the miserable prisoners to be fettered.
He has even made blue stockings and strange little shoes. He has got some hair from somewhere and parted it just like yours." "It sounds very touching," she remarked. The man was shivering again. "Elizabeth," he said, "I do not think that he means it kindly. Mathers took me up into his room. He has made something there which looks like a scaffold.
Such was the political and public administration of the Province of Massachusetts, during the Summer of 1692, under which the Witchcraft prosecutions were carried on. It was conducted by men whom the Mathers had brought into office, and who were wholly in their counsels.
The days came and went, and after a few months of melancholiness he grew a little bit better. His father noticed that he began to take an interest in the culture of the garden. "I shall have to find work for him," thought Mr. Mathers, and, one day, when his son seemed in a more joyous mood than usual, he spoke to him.
And at first I didn't mind, and then I did mind, and I got angry with Mathers, and Mathers wouldn't let me come away, and three nights ago I killed Mathers." There was a little thrill of horror. He looked from one to the other. By degrees their fear seemed to become communicated to him. "What do you mean by looking like that, all of you?" he exclaimed. "What does it matter?
He managed to overcome his timidity sufficiently to raise his eyes as he took leave of Adèle. Her eyes met his, she blushed and immediately dropped her eyelids. Through the eyes the souls had spoken. Next day Frank Mathers prepared to pay his promised visit. He fancied that he felt very much like William the Conqueror when he set out from Normandy to fight against the English. And probably he did.
"I was afraid that if you or his relations found him, I should have to live with him or give up the money." Pritchard nodded. "And to-night you thought " "I thought he was his brother Jerry," she went on. "The likeness was always amazing, you know that. I was told that Jerry was in town. I felt nervous, somehow, and wired to Mathers. I had his reply only last night.
I dare say it would have been but I didn't want to. I studied surgery for six months. The only thing I remember was just where to kill a man behind the left shoulder. I remembered that. Mathers was a fat man, and he stooped so that his coat almost burst. I just leaned over, picked out the exact spot, and he crumpled all up. I expect," he went on, "you'll find him there still.
The tribunal consisted of the Deputy-governor, as Chief-justice, and eight other persons, all members of the Council, and each, as has been shown, owing his seat, at that Board, to the Mathers.
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