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 "What do you think of this?"

"I can not help it; the devil may appear in my shape."

At the close of this long and most one-*sided examination, where all the power and subtlety were with the examiner, and the unfortunate prisoner stood alone and unsupported, she was committed to Salem jail to await further examination; and there, doubtless, in common with all the others committed on the same charge, she was put in chains.

All this time the prevailing excitement was artfully heightened and kept up by lectures and sermons by Mr. Parris and Mr. Lawson, in which, by ingenious and laborious research of both the Old and New Testament histories, they proved and enlarged upon the nature and evidences of witchcraft.

After the lapse of a week preparations were made to renew operations, and to attempt to give to them a new and more commanding character; and, as new complaints were constantly being made, new arrests were issued, and the marshal received orders