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 "Who do you employ, then?"

"I employ nobody; I scorn it."

"How came they thus tormented, then?"

"What do I know? You bring others here, and now you charge me with it."

"Why, who was it, then?"

"It might be some one you brought into the meeting-house with you."

"We brought you into the meeting-house."

"Yes; but you brought in two more."

"Who was it, then, that tormented the children?"

"It might be Osburn."

"What is it you say when you go muttering away from people's houses?"

"If I must tell, I will tell."

"Do tell us, then. What is it?"

"If I must tell, I will—it is the commandments. I may say them, I hope."

"What commandment is it?"

"If I must tell you, I will tell—it is a psalm."

"What psalm is it?"

After a long while she muttered part of a psalm.

"Who do you serve?"