Again and again, had this been done until the voices of all but the very boldest were effectually silenced.

Those arrested now, as a general thing, would confess at once to the truthfulness of all the charges brought against them, and even invent still more improbable stories of their own, as this mollified the accusers, and they often would be let off with a solemn reprimand by the magistrates.
Joseph Putnam and his male servants went constantly armed; and two horses were kept saddled day and night, in his stable.

He never went to the village unaccompanied; and made no secret of his determination to resist the arrest of himself or, as he had phrased it, "any one within his gates," to the last drop of his blood.
Living with the Goodman Buckley who had leased the Burton property, was a hired man named Antipas Newton.

He was a good worker though now getting old, and had in one sense been leased with the place by Dulcibel's father.
Antipas's history had been a sad one.

Adopted when left an orphan by a benevolent farmer who had no children, he managed by diligence and strict economy to acquire by the age of thirty, quite a comfortable property of his own.