Do you imagine, uncle,
that I could for a moment think of marrying a seducer and a poisoner?"
"It would be a very queer thing if you did," replied her uncle; "but
was it not a fortunate circumstance that you came to discover his
real character in time to prevent you from becoming the wife of such a
scoundrel?"
"It was the providence of God," said his niece, "that would not suffer
the innocent to become associated with the guilty."
Greatrakes, in the meantime, was hard at work. He and the other
magistrates had collected evidence, and received the informations
against Woodward, the herbalist, and the mysterious individual who
was in the habit of appearing about the Haunted House as the
_Shan-dhinne-dhuv_, or the Black Spectre. Villany like this cannot be
long concealed, and will, in due time, come to light.
During the dusk of the evening preceding Woodward's intended marriage,
an individual came to Mr. Lindsay's house and requested to see Mr.
Woodward. That gentleman came down, and immediately recognized the
person who had, for such a length of time, frightened the neighborhood
as the _Shan-dhinne-dhuv_ or the Black Spectre.
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