“There is no way Caleb or Joel—or any other male person at this school”—and I said this last plain and slow, so that he would understand that the shadow of suspicion might fall not upon the two Indian youths only—“could possibly have committed this debauchery. Furthermore, master, we cannot lay it upon her English foster father, nor upon the police or militia or whosoever it was who held her incarcerated several months ago. It is my belief—no, certainty—that the girl was defiled somewhen between a month or two months before she arrived here, while she was in attendance at the dame school.”
