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Updated: June 26, 2025
"I understand what you have told me, Gran'pa Jim. But why " "Miss Stearne will be supplied with ample funds to cover your tuition and to purchase any supplies you may need. You will have nothing to worry about and so may devote all your energies to your studies." "But how long "
The principal sat crouched over her desk as if overawed by her visitor, who stopped his nervous pacing up and down the room as the girl appeared. "This is Mary Louise Burrows," said Miss Stearne, in a weak voice. "Huh!" He glared at her with a scowl for a moment and then demanded: "Where's Hathaway?" Mary Louise reddened. "I do not know to whom you refer," she answered quietly.
Beside that unreasonable watching, they were extraordinarily walked, till their feet were blistered, and so forced through that cruelty to confess." Hopkins himself admitted the keeping of Elizabeth Clarke from sleep, but is careful to insert "upon command from the Justice." Hopkins, 2-3. On p. 5 he again refers to this point. Stearne, 61, uses the phrase "with consent of the justices."
"Was this woman fitting to live?... I am sure she was living not long since, and acquitted upon her trial." Not until after Stearne was already busy elsewhere. Stearne, 58. It would seem, too, that Stearne was sued for recovery of sums paid him. "Many rather fall upon me for what hath been received; but I hope such suits will be disannulled." Stearne, 60. Hopkins, 11.
There is no evidence which makes it certain that the morbidity of the public would have taken the form of witch-hanging, had it not been for the leadership of Hopkins and Stearne. The Manningtree affair started very much as a score of others in other times. It had just this difference, that two pushing men took the matter up and made of it an opportunity.
He began to pace the room again, casting at her shrewd and uncertain glances. "He didn't say where he was going?" "No." "Or leave any address?" "No." "What DID he say?" "That he was going away and would arrange with Miss Stearne for me to board at the school." "Huh! I see. Foxy old guy. Knew I would question you and wouldn't take chances.
Within a quarter of an hour the imps appeared, six of them, one after another. The first was a "white thing in the likeness of a Cat, but not altogether so big," the second a white dog with some sandy spots and very short legs, the third, Vinegar Tom, was a greyhound with long legs. We need not go further into the story. The court records give the testimony of Hopkins and Stearne.
"He he left by the morning train, which goes west," stammered Miss Stearne, anxious to placate the officer and fearful of the girl's stubborn resistance. "So the nigger servant told me," sneered the man; "but he didn't. I was at the station myself two miles from this forsaken place to make sure that Hathaway didn't skip while I was waiting for orders.
Miss Stearne, realizing how humiliated Mary Louise would be if the newspaper fell into her hands, carefully hid her copy away where none of the girls could see it; but one of the day scholars brought a copy to the school Thursday morning and passed it around among the girls, so that all were soon in possession of the whole scandalous screed.
She had intended asking Miss Stearne to permit her to take the five- thirty train from Beverly Junction the next morning and since the recent interview she had firmly decided to board that very train.
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