CHAPTER XX.
Master Raymond Goes to Boston.
Whatever the immediate effect of Dulcibel's prediction had been, Mistress Ann Putnam was now about again, as full of wicked plans, and as dangerous as ever.

She knew, for everybody knew, that Master Ellis Raymond had gone to Boston.

In a village like Salem at that time, such fact could hardly be concealed.
"What had he gone for?
"To see a friend," Joseph Putnam had said.
"What friend ?" queried Mistress Ann.

That seemed important for her to know.
She had accused Dulcibel in the first place as a means of hurting Joseph Putnam.

But now since the trial, she hated her for herself.