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Updated: June 13, 2025
'She has been out on a devilish ride all night long, doubtless, and is weary and perplexed this morning, whispered one, in so low a voice that he did not think she could hear; but she lifted up her eyes, and looked at him, with mute reproach. 'We are come' said Pastor Tappau, 'to exhort you to confess your great and manifold sin.
Faith alone seemed uneasy and disturbed beyond her wont, for Manasseh received the whole transaction as the fulfilment of a prophecy, and Prudence was excited by the novel scene into a state of discordant high spirits. 'I am quite as old as Hester Tappau, said she; 'her birthday is in September and mine in October. 'What has that to do with it? said Faith, sharply.
With savage, untutored people, it is not 'Love me, love my dog, they are often jealous of the creature beloved; but it is, 'Whom thou hatest I will hate; and Nattee's feeling towards Pastor Tappau was even an exaggeration of the mute unspoken hatred of Faith.
They had been beloved as fathers, and looked up to as judges in the land. The first bad effect of their loss was seen in the heated dissension which sprang up between Pastor Tappau and the candidate Nolan. It had been apparently healed over; but Mr.
Tappau invited the neighbouring ministers and all godly people to assemble at his house, and unite with him in devoting a day to solemn religious services, and to supplication for the deliverance of his children, and those similarly afflicted, from the power of the Evil One. All Salem poured out towards the house of the minister.
But Pastor Tappau, that gaunt, grey man, lifting himself to his utmost height, signed to them to go back, to keep still while he addressed them; and then he told them, that instant vengeance was not just, deliberate punishment; that there would be need of conviction, perchance of confession he hoped for some redress for his suffering children from her revelations, if she were brought to confession.
There had arisen a dispute among them at last, as to how far these subjections to the power of the Evil One were to be considered as a judgment upon Pastor Tappau for some sin on his part; and if so, what?
But the Pastor Tappau, when he heard it, drew back in dismay, while Dr. Mather, knowing not to whom the name belonged, cried out, in a clear, cold voice, 'Know ye one Lois Barclay; for it is she who hath bewitched this poor child? The answer was given rather by action than by word, although a low murmur went up from many.
A buzz went round the meeting, that the stranger minister who stood along with Pastor Tappau in the pulpit was no other than Dr. Cotton Mather himself, come all the way from Boston to assist in purging Salem of witches. And now Pastor Tappau began his prayer, extempore, as was the custom.
'Take not His name on your wicked lips, said Pastor Tappau, enraged at her resolution of not confessing, and scarcely able to keep himself from striking her. She saw the desire he had, and shrank away in timid fear. Then Justice Hathorn solemnly read the legal condemnation of Lois Barclay to death by hanging, as a convicted witch.
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