CHAPTER XIV.
Bad News.
The blow fell at last, and where they might have expected it.

As Joseph Putnam said afterwards, "Why did I not bring them out to my house?
They would not have dared to take them from under my roof, and they could not have done it if they had dared." One of his servants had been sent to the village on an errand; he had not performed his errand, but he had hurried back at once with the news.
Dulcibel Burton had been arrested the previous evening, about nine o'clock, on the charge of being a witch.

Antipas Newton had also been arrested.

Both had been taken to prison, and put in irons.
A desperate, determined look came into the faces of the two men as they gathered every word the servant had to tell.

Young Mistress Putnam burst into tears.