But I pity him so much that I hesitate to reveal it.

I feel as if I would almost rather suffer myself, than accuse so fine a young man as he seemed to be of such wicked conduct." "But it appears to me that it is your duty to expose him, Mistress Putnam," said Jethro Sands.

"I know the young man whose spectre you saw, for he and that black witch of a mare seem to be making their nightly rounds together.

They 'afflicted' me the other night the same way.

I flung them off; and I asked him what he meant by acting in that way?
And he said he was a lover of the witch Dulcibel; who was one of the queens of Hell--I might know that by the snake-mark on her bosom.