When at last he was sworn, he could hardly restrain himself into coherency.
"Yes--that woman forced me to marry her!" he testified in substance.
"But in the eyes of God I am not her husband, for she bewitched me! Else would I have married an old crone who could not have borne me children?
When her spells weakened I left her and came to America.

Here I met the woman I love,--Rosina,--and as I had been bewitched into the other marriage, we lived together as man and wife for two years.

Then one day a friend told me that the old woman had followed me over the sea and was going to throw her spells upon me again.

But I did not inform Rosina of these things.

The next evening she told me that an old woman had been to the house and asked for me.