Go, and carry your false stories and falser thoughts out into the world, and pollute others as you yourself have been polluted! we will think of that anon.

Here thou art safe in thy father's care, and it will be well to think further ere we let so rabid a heretic stray from these walls.

Wretched boy! the devil himself must sure have entered into thee.

But fiends have been exorcised before now.

It shall not be the fault of Nicholas Trevlyn if this one be not quickly forced to take flight!" All this while the infuriated man had been partly dragging, partly carrying his son to a dreary empty room in the rear of the dilapidated old house inhabited by Nicholas and his children.