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roses, and her hair like threads of gold, if she were found, but for one night, joining in the elrich revelry of a devil's conventicle. (A distant trumpet heard.) Ha! the judges so near the town already!

Would they were further off! they come sooner than I reckoned for.

Soon or late, we must go to meet them, as in duty bound.—You take precedence, Sheriff: I will follow you. [Exeunt Sheriff and Baillie.

What is or is not in this mysterious matter, lies beyond human reason to decide. That I must swear to the truth of what I have seen, when questioned thereupon by authority, is my only clear point of discernment. Hard necessity! My heart, in despite of every proof whispers to me she is innocent. (A loud brawling and tumult heard without.) What noise is this?—The senseless exasperated crowd besetting one of those miserable women who held orgies on the heath on that dreadful night.