Whatever the cause, Newell Knight sat up and pointed at Susannah, crying aloud that he saw the devil about to seize upon her.

So excited was the mental atmosphere, so vivid were the sufferer's words and the effect of his pointing finger, or, perhaps, so substantial was his vision, that more than one of the saints afterwards averred that they had seen the Evil One about to embrace Susannah.

But they did not agree in the description of his form.
Halsey wrapped his arms about his wife, and led her like a child from the room and from the house.

She hardly had time to speak before she saw the night again about her.

He set her down upon an old log that chanced to lie against Knight's barn, kneeling beside her.