"No--no. There be no unnatural cause here. Tell him I have sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, and Mr. Hale will surely confirm that. Let him look to medicine and put out all thought of unnatural causes here."

"And what shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest?"

"Such a Christian that will not come to church but once in a month!"

"I think not, or you should surely know that Cain were an upright man, and yet he did kill Abel."

Now Mr. Hale's returned, there is hope, I think--for if he bring even one of these to God, that confession surely damns the others in the public eye, and none may doubt more that they are all linked to Hell. This way unconfessed and claiming innocence, doubts are multiplied, many honest people will weep for them, and our good purpose is lost in their tears.