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The Hidden Children

CHAPTER XV
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Amochol, the Wyoming Witch, the Toad-Woman--all that accursed spawn of Frontenac must die.
"Major Parr is of the same opinion; Clinton sees the importance of this, having had the sense to learn of Amherst how to stop the Seneca demons with a stout hempen rope.

Two Sachems he hung, and the whole nation cowed down in terror of him while his authority remained.
"But Amherst left us; and the yelps of the Toad-Woman aroused the Sorcerers from their torpor.

But I swear to you by St.Catharine, who is the saint of the Iroquois also, that the sway of Amochol shall end, and that he shall lie on his own bloody altar, nor die there before he sees the flames of Catharines-town touch the very heaven of an affronted God!" "Can you do this ?" "With God's help and General Sullivan's," I said cheerfully.

"For I daily pray to the One, and I have the promise of the other that before our marching army alarms Catharines-town, I and my Indians and Boyd and his riflemen shall strike the Red Priest there at the Onon-hou-aroria." "What is that, Euan ?" "Their devil-rites--an honest feast which they have perverted.

It was the Dream Feast, Lois, but Amochol has made of it an orgy unspeakable, where human sacrifices are offered to the Moon Witch, Atensi, and to Leshi and the Stone-Throwers, and the Little People--many of which were not goblins and ghouls until Amochol so decreed them." "When is this feast to be held in Catharines-town ?" "On the last day of this month.


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