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The narrator ended with saying that Hota was to be hung the next morning, in spite of her confession, even although her life had been promised to her if she acknowledged her sin; for it was well to make an example of the first-discovered witch, and it was also well that she was an Indian, a heathen, whose life would be no great loss to the community. Grace Hickson on this spoke out.
Another moment and they would have fallen upon the trembling creature and torn her limb from limb pale, dusky, shivering Hota, half guilty-looking from her very bewilderment.
Lois hastened on with Faith, for Manasseh was walking alongside of his mother, and she kept steady to her plan of avoiding him, even though she pressed her company upon Faith, who had seemed of late desirous of avoiding her. That evening the news spread through Salem, that Hota had confessed her sin had acknowledged that she was a witch. Nattee was the first to hear the intelligence.
And once I met her in the dusk, just close by Pastor Tappau's house, in company with Hota, his servant it was just before we heard of the sore disturbance in his house and I have wondered if she had aught to do with it. Faith sat very still, as if thinking.
And the congregation moaned themselves into unsatisfied submission, and listened to his long, passionate prayer, which he uplifted even while the hapless Hota stood there, guarded and bound by two men, who glared at her like bloodhounds ready to slip, even while the prayer ended in the words of the merciful Saviour.
"Jo hota so hota," "What is happening was to happen" so said the wounded men who had gone to the Bombay hospital to have their limbs amputated a few days before I got there.
All present were startled at his wild eyes, his bloodless face. But he was evidently annoyed at the expression of their countenances. 'Why look ye at me in that manner? asked he. And his manner was anxious and agitated. His mother made haste to speak: 'It was but that Prudence said something that thou hast told her that Pastor Tappau defiled his hands by whipping the witch Hota.
All the other members were strictly forbidden to stir out, until such time as the low-tolling bell announced that all was over in this world for Hota, the Indian witch.
Just at this moment, the bell began to toll. Hota, the Indian witch, was dead. Lois covered her face with her hands. Even Faith went a deadlier pale than she had been, and said, sighing, 'Poor Hota! But death is best. Prudence alone seemed unmoved by any thoughts connected with the solemn, monotonous sound.
I would have done it myself, but mother has bidden me to come to her, and I may be detained until the time when Hota is to be hung; and the letter tells of matters pertaining to life and death. Seek out Pastor Nolan wherever he may be, and have speech of him after he has read the letter. 'Cannot Nattee take it? asked Lois. 'No! Faith answered, fiercely. 'Why should she?
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