CHAPTER IV.
Satan's Especial Grudge against Our Puritan Fathers.
"Tituba!" And who else?
Why need there have been anybody else?
Why could not the whole thing have stopped just there?
No doubt Tituba was guilty, if any one was.

But Tituba escaped, by shrewdly also becoming an accuser.
"Who else ?" This set the children's imagination roving.

Their first charges were not so unreasonable.

Why, the vagrant Sarah Good, a social outcast, wandering about without any settled habitation; and Sarah Osburn, a bed-ridden woman, half distracted by family troubles who had seen better days.

There the truth was out.