CHAPTER XXXI.
A New Plan of Escape.
About this time a new plan of escape was suggested to Master Raymond; coming to him in a note from Dulcibel.
Master Philip English, one of the wealthiest inhabitants of Salem town, and his wife Mary, had been arrested--the latter a short time previous to her husband.

He was a merchant managing a large business, owning fourteen houses in the town, a wharf, and twenty-one vessels.

He had one of the best dwellings in Salem--situated at its eastern end, and having a fine outlook over the adjacent seas.

He had probably offended some one in his business transactions; or, supposing that he was safely entrenched in his wealth and high social position, he might have expressed some decided opinions, relative to Mistress Ann Putnam and the "afflicted children." As for his wife, she was a lady of exalted character who had been an only child and had inherited a large property from her father.

The deputy-marshall, Manning, came to arrest her in the night time, during her husband's absence.