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notice so quickly. Your cool head will correct our roused imaginations: you believe little, I have heard, of either apparitions or witches.

My faith on such subjects was once, indeed, but weak.

And have you changed it lately?—(A pause for to answer, but he is silent.) Since when has your faith become stronger?

Since the storm on Friday night; when Mary Macmurren and a' the crew were on the moor.

Silence, I say again! Can the minister not answer for himself, without your assistance?—You heard my question, Mr. Rutherford: were you upon the moor on that night?

I was.

And saw you aught upon the moor contrary to godliness and nature?

What I saw, I will declare in fitter time and place, if I must needs do so.