Ye Lyttle Salem Maide [Illustration: _Copyright, 1898, by Lamson, Wolffe and Company_ “_There, keep ye at that distance. I ken your sly ways._” _page 75_] Ye Lyttle Salem Maide _A Story of Witchcraft_ BY Pauline Bradford Mackie _Author of_ “Mademoiselle De Berny: A Story of Valley Forge” _Illustrated by_ E. W. D. Hamilton “This world is very evil, The times are waxing late” [Illustration] Lamson, Wolffe and Company Boston, New York and London MDCCCXCVIII Copyright, 1898, By Lamson, Wolffe and Company. _All rights reserved._ _The Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Norwood, Mass., U.S.A._ To Alice IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF OLD DAYS AT ENGLEWOOD Contents Chapter Page I. A Meeting in the Forest 1 II. Sir Jonathan’s Warning 18 III. The Yellow Bird 38 IV. In which Demons assault the Meeting-house 55 V. The Coming of the Town Beadle 70 VI. The Woman of Ipswich 80 VII. The Trial of Deliverance 92 VIII. The Last Witness 113 IX. In which Abigail sees Deliverance 128 X. A Little Life sweetly Lived 141 XI. Abigail goes to Boston Town 158 XII. Mr. Cotton Mather visits Deliverance 169 XIII. In the Green Forest 188 XIV. A Fellow of Harvard 206 XV. Lord Christopher Mallett 226 XVI. At the Governor’s House 244 XVII. In a Sedan-chair 256 XVIII. The Coming of Thomas 273 XIX. On Gallows’ Hill 290 XX. The Great Physician 309 List of Illustrations Page “‘There, keep ye at that distance. I ken your sly ways’” _Frontispiece_ “‘Take care lest you harbour a witch in yonder girl’” 33 “Strangely enough, the old woman seemed like a witch” 194 “Her ladyship tilted her chin in the air” 260 Ye Lyttle Salem Maide Chapter I A Meeting in the Forest