Page:The Necromancer, or, The Tale of the Black Forest Vol. 2.djvu/253

 of the villagers dared to approach their lurking place, from which they sallied out every night disguised in the skin of goats, which they had stolen and fleeced, and committed numberless robberies in the village. Having procured a sufficient stock of money, Wolf's associate was dispatched to a neighbouring town to procure fire arms, powder, and ball, and then they began to prey on the unwary wanderer. To relate the numberless robberies they committed before they were joined by new associates would swell volumes: As their numbers augmented they became more daring, and extended their depredations many miles over the country, 'till after a series of thirty successful years their infernal society sustained a deadly blow by the nocturnal surprize which delivered them into the punishing justice. Wolf has since confessed that they have a great number of hiding places besides the solitary castle, and that their gang consists of fifty-three ruffians, who are dispersed all over the country. The useful information he has given to his Judges has ena-