CHAPTER II..
THE CHAPLAIN AS AN AUTHORITY ON
WITCHCRAFT.
Major Hardinge remained in the jail that night. He stayed in the governor's house as Mr. Paley's guest. He expressed himself very strongly about the events of the day.
"I'll see the thing through if it takes me a week. The whole affair is incredible to me. It strikes me, Paley, that they've been making a fool of you."
The governor combed his hair with his fingers. His official manner had temporarily gone. He seemed depressed.
"I assure you the doors were locked."
"Of course the doors were locked, and they used the wrong keys to open them! It was a got-up thing."
"Not by the officers."
"By whom then? I don't see how the prisoners could have lent a hand."
"I know the officers, and I will answer for them, every man. As for the wrong keys being used, I know the keys as well as any one. I tried them, and not a lock would yield to me."