BY
ZENA A. MAHER
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR
SAN FRANCISCO
THE BANCROFT COMPANY
1892
COPYRIGHT, 1892
BY
ZENA A. MAHER
Issued from the Press of
THE BANCROFT COMPANY
CHAPTER
THE WITCH HYPNOTIZER
Let there be light. Genesis i, 3.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven. Matthew v, 16.
In the world of imagination many Witches have lived and died since theone of whose existence and wonders I am about to relate, came intoprominence.
She lived quite alone in a little cottage on the outskirts of a largecity in America, of course, and why should not the free soil produceall sorts when it is the dumping ground for all creation?
Alone, with the exception of her dog and several cages of canaries