This woman, as the whole country-side knows, is a famous quack and a preparer of such specifics as it is unlawful for one man to give to another.

Formerly she was visited by multitudes of people suffering from every sort of ill--especially girls.

More than once she has paid dearly for her quackery, for the county authorities apprehended her for poisoning, and clapped her into jail for some years.

Since then she has grown more cautious and does not care about seeing everyone in her lonely little forest hut, especially since I impressed upon her severely what a heavy load she was burdening her conscience with by turning the secret healing forces which Nature had implanted in the herbs of the field, to the destruction of ignorant humanity.

Yesterday, then, this woman came to me (and it is a very rare thing to see her among men) and informed me that last night Fatia Negra had visited her." Henrietta shuddered all over.