"I pricked my ears to hear all I could. But I could not make out one
word she said. And my aunt answered:
"'The evil one can't hurt no one, ma'am, bout the Lord permits.'
"Then the same queer voice from the bed says something more that I
couldn't make head nor tail on.
"And my aunt med answer again: 'Let them pull faces, ma'am, and say
what they will; if the Lord be for us, who can be against us?'
"I kept listenin' with my ear turned to the door, holdin' my breath,
but not another word or sound came in from the room. In about twenty
minutes, as I was sittin' by the table, lookin' at the pictures in the
old Aesop's Fables, I was aware o' something moving at the door, and
lookin' up I sid my aunt's face lookin' in at the door, and her hand
raised.
"'Hish!' says she, very soft, and comes over to me on tiptoe, and she
says in a whisper: 'Thank God, she's asleep at last, and don't ye make
no noise till I come back, for I'm goin' down to take my cup o' tea,
and I'll be back i' noo--me and Mrs. Wyvern, and she'll be sleepin' in
the room, and you can run down when we come up, and Judith will gie ye
yaur supper in my room.'
"And with that she goes.
"I kep' looking at the picture-book, as before, listenin' every noo
and then, but there was no sound, not a breath, that I could hear; an'
I began whisperin' to the pictures and talkin' to myself to keep my
heart up, for I was growin' feared in that big room.
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