"Yes, you do know, and if I explain why I am so anxious you'll tell me all you can, won't you, Pat?"
"Yees moight be an officer."
"Nonsense, Pat, haven't you worked beside me for a long time?"
"Sure, but you moight be."
"No, I am not, and you should not be afraid, for you have never committed any crime."
"Oh, but it was the innocent that they murthered. But, Jim, if yees will lit me come to your room at the did o' night and yees will kiss the Holy Cross and hold the sacred Mary to your heart while ye swear niver to till, I might till yees the bit I know."
When Pat arrived at midnight he whispered in my ear, "Ye see, that if Cotton Mather hears that I till the truth he will git some one to swear I am posist with the devil and they will hang me sure."
After I had explained to him how large a dowery had been left for the Burroughs family, and that a child had been lost, he said: "Then it is not Giles Corey yees are after hearing, for I might tell yees more about him, for I lived with him both before and after he was dead."
"No, I want you to tell me all about George Burroughs. Did you ever hear about him?"