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One of the torchbearers gave ground a little "She do look

But where be the witch, then?"

Audrey strove to shake herself free "The old woman left me alone in the

house She went to--to the northward"

"She lies!" cried the ferry

The torches, fla, uncertain,

and bewildering light; to the excited iers,

the forirl, but now

and again wavered toward the seht them

evil "Before the child died he talked forever of so and fair

that caht 't was his dead

irl by the wrists, he

burst with her through the crowd "Let the water touch her, she'll turn

witch again!"

The excited throng, blinded by its own iirl's voice was drowned; she set her lips, and strove durown garden and broken gate,

past the cedars that were so ragged and black, down to the cold and deep

water She thought of the night upon the river and of the falling stars,

and with a sudden, piercing cry struggled fiercely to escape The bank was