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The
man
spoke
smoothly
and
not
discourteously
,
but
David
would
have
preferred
oaths
and
shouting
.
He
put
a
great
restraint
on
his
temper
.
"
How
did
you
extort
the
confession
?
Answer
me
that
.
You
have
tortured
her
body
and
driven
her
demented
,
and
suffering
flesh
and
crazed
wits
will
avow
any
foolishness
.
"
"
We
followed
the
means
sanctioned
by
ilka
presbytery
in
this
land
.
It
’
s
weel
kenned
that
flesh
sell
’
t
to
the
Deil
is
no
like
common
flesh
,
and
the
evil
spirit
will
no
speak
without
some
sort
o
’
compulsion
.
"
David
snatched
the
paper
from
the
pricker
and
held
it
to
the
lantern
.
It
was
written
clearly
in
a
schoolmaster
’
s
hand
,
and
though
oddly
and
elliptically
worded
,
he
made
out
the
sum
of
it
.
As
he
read
,
there
was
silence
in
the
place
,
except
for
the
babbling
of
the
woman
and
the
mowing
of
Daft
Gibbie
from
his
perch
.
It
seemed
to
him
a
bedlamite
chronicle
.
The
accused
confessed
that
she
had
been
guilty
of
charming
,
and
had
cured
a
cow
on
the
Mains
by
taking
live
trouts
from
its
belly
.
She
had
"
overlooked
"
a
boy
,
Hobbie
Simson
,
at
Nether
Fennan
,
and
he
had
sickened
and
lain
for
three
months
on
his
back
.
She
had
made
a
clay
figure
of
one
of
the
ewe
-
milkers
at
Mirehope
and
stuck
pins
into
it
,
and
the
girl
had
suffered
from
pains
and
dizziness
all
summer
.
She
had
shot
cattle
with
elf
-
bolts
,
and
had
cursed
a
field
on
Windyways
by
driving
round
it
a
team
of
puddocks
.
The
Devil
had
trysted
with
her
on
a
rig
of
Mirehope
’
s
,
and
had
given
her
a
name
which
she
would
not
reveal
,
and
on
the
rig
there
had
been
ever
since
an
intractable
crop
of
thistles
.
Her
master
visited
her
in
the
likeness
of
a
black
cat
,
and
she
herself
had
often
taken
the
same
likeness
,
and
had
travelled
the
country
at
night
sitting
on
the
crupper
of
one
of
the
Devil
’
s
mares
.
By
means
of
the
charm
of
the
seven
south
-
flowing
streams
and
the
nine
rowan
berries
,
she
had
kept
her
meal
-
ark
full
in
the
winter
famine
.
She
confessed
to
having
ridden
John
Humbie
,
a
ploughman
of
Chasehope
’
s
,
night
after
night
to
a
witch
-
gathering
at
Charlie
’
s
Moss
,
so
that
John
was
done
with
weariness
the
next
day
and
unfit
for
work
.
The
said
John
declared
that
he
woke
with
the
cry
of
"
Up
horsie
"
in
his
ear
.
At
these
gatherings
she
admitted
to
having
baked
and
eaten
the
witch
-
cake
-
-
a
food
made
of
grey
bear
and
a
black
toad
’
s
blood
,
and
baked
in
the
light
of
the
moon
,
and
at
the
eating
had
sung
this
spell
:
"
Some
lass
maun
gang
wi
’
a
kilted
sark
;
Some
priest
maun
preach
in
a
thackless
kirk
;
Thread
maun
be
spun
for
a
dead
man
’
s
sark
;
A
’
maun
be
done
ere
the
sang
o
’
the
lark
.
"
