"I don't know if he said John the _Baptist;_ but it was John,
anyway. And they say--or that's what Sally hearn tell--that when he was
off with Enraghty and Hingston on some 'pointments down round Seneca there
was doun's that 'uld make your hair stand up."

"You don't happen to know just what the doings were?"

"Well, no, I don't, Squire. But they was doun's to deceive the very
elec', from all I hearn."

"That's just what Hingston and Enraghty both are--the very elect. What
deceived _them_?"

"Oh, pshaw, now, Squire! You know I don't mean they were deceived! That's
just a Bible sayin'. You see, Brother Briggs was sick and Brother Enraghty
went along with Dylks and Brother Hingston to preach in his place."

"Couldn't Dylks have done the preaching?"

"I reckon he could. But there was three 'p'intments, and may be Dylks
couldn't fill 'em all, and may be he didn't want to. Fust Brother Enraghty
preached in the Temple at Seneca, and then at Brother Christhaven's house
off south of that, and then at David Mason's, the local preacher; but
Brother Mason has got the consumption, and he couldn't preach, so Brother
Enraghty had to do _all_ the preachun'."

"I see. Well?"

"Well, that wasn't anything out o' the common, but what Dylks done to the
Devil beat all the preachun', I reckon."