CHAPTER XXI.
A Night Interview.
A few days passed and Master Raymond was back again; with a pleasant word and smile for all he met, as he rode through the village. Mistress Ann Putnam herself met him on the street and he pulled up his horse at the side-path as she stopped, and greeted her.
"So you have been to Boston?" she said.
"Yes, I thought I would take a little turn and hear what was going on up there."
"Who did you see—any of our people?"
"Oh, yes—the Nortons and the Mathers and the Higginsons and the Sewalls—I don't know all.
"Good day; remember me to my kind brother Joseph and his wife," said she, and Raymond rode on.