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HALE. 1 should like to speak with Tituba. PARRIS. “mn “akes Ann to door and returns as she goes out.) Goody Ann, will you bring her up? HALE. How did she call him? — ABIGAIL. I know not—she spoke Barbados. ; HALE. Did you feel any strangeness when she called him? A sudden cold wind, perhaps? A trembling below the ground? ; ABIGAIL, I didn’t see no Devill— (To Betty frantically.) Berry, wake up, Betty! Berty! ; a. HALES ‘You cannot evade me, Abigail. —Did your cousin drink any of the brew in that kerrle? ABIGAIL. She never drank it! HALE. Did you drink it? ABIGAIL. No, sir! ; HALE. Did Tituba ask you to drink it? ABIGAIL. She tried but I refused. sea HALE. Why are you concealing? Have you sold yourself to Lucifer? ABIGAIL. I never sold myself P'm a good girl—I— (Ann enters with Tituba.) 1 did drink of the ketrlel-—She made me do it! She made Betty do it! TITUBA. Abby! ABIGAIL. She makes me drink blood! PARRIS. Bloodt! j ANN. My baby’s blood? ; TITUBA Nowno. chicken blood, I give she chicken blood! ; HALE. Woman, have you enlisted these children for the Devil? TITUBA. No—no, sir I don’t truck with the Devil ya HALE. (OfBetty,) Why can she not wake? Are you silencing this child? TITUBA. I love me Betty: , FLALE. You have sent your spirit out upon this child, have you not? ‘Are you gathering souls for the Devil? ABIGAIL She send her spirit on me in church, she make me laugh at prayer PARRIS. She have often laughed at prayer! ; / ABIGAIL. She comes to me every night to go and drink blood! TITUBA. You beg me to conjure, Abby! She beg me make charm— ABIGAIL. [ll tell you something, She comes to me while I sleep; she’s always making me dream corruptions! TITUBA. Abby! ; ; ABIGAIL. (Ar k. of Betty's head. Hysterically, horrified.) Sometimes 22 I wake and find myself standing in the open doorway and not a stitch on my body! (Covering herself with her arms, turning upstage and away.) always hear her laughing in my sleep. I hear her singing her Barbados songs and tempting me with— HALE. Tituba, I want TITUBA. Mister Reverend, you to wake this child. I never— TITUBA. I have no power on this child, sir. HALE. You most certainly do, and you will loose her from it now! When did you compact with the Devil? TITUBA. I don’t compact with no Devil! PARRIS. You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba! PUTNAM. ‘This woman must be hanged! She must be taken and. hanged! TITUBA. (Kneeling.) No—no, don’t hang Tituba. I tell him I don’t desixe to work for him, sir. HALE. Who, the Devil? Now, Tituba, I know that when we bind ourselves to Hell it is very hard to break with it entirely. Now, we ate going to help you tear yourself free. —You would be a good Christian woman, would you not, Tituba? TITUBA. Ay, six, a good Christian woman. HALE. And you love these little children? TITUBA. Oh, yes, sir, I don’t desire to hure little children! HALE. And you love God, Tituba? TITUBA. I love God with all my bein’. HALE. Now in God’s holy name... TITUBA. Bless Him... bless Him... HALE. And to His Glory... TITUBA. Eternal Glory... Bless Him... Bless God... HALE. Open yourself, Tituba—open yourself and let God’s holy light shine on you. TITUBA. Oh, bless the Lord. HALE. When the Devil comes to you does he ever come... with another person? Perhaps another person in the village? Someone you know, PARRIS. Who came with him? PUTNAM. Sarah Good? Did you ever see Sarah Good with him?—or Osburn? PARRIS. Was it man or woman came with him? TITUBA. Was... was woman. 23  -----------------------Page 12 End----------------------- PARRIS. What woman? A woman, you said. What woman? TITUBA. It was black dark, and I... PARRIS. You could see him, why could you not see her? ‘TITUBA. Well, they was always talking, they was always runnin’ round and carryin’ on. PARRIS. You mean out of Salem? Salem witches? (Hale indicates to Parris to take it easy.) TITUBA. I believe so, yes, six. HALE. (Calmly. Now he takes her hand.) Ticuba. You must have no fear to tell us who they are, do you understand? We will protect you. The Devil can never overcome a minister. You know that, do you not? TITUBA. Aye, siz, oh, I do. HALE. You have confessed yourself to witchcraft, and that speaks a wish to come to heaven's side, And we will bless you, Tituba... TITUBA. (Deeply relieved.) Ob, God bless you, Mister Hale...! HALE. You are God's instrument put in our hands to discover the Devil’s agents among us. You are selected, Tituba, you are chosen to help us cleanse our village. So speak utterly, Tituba, turn your back on him and face God, face God, Tituba, and God will protect you. TITUBA. Ob, God, protect Tituba! HALE, Who came to you with the Devil? Two? ‘Three? Four?—how many? TITUBA. (Pants, and begins racking back and. forth, staring abead.) ‘There was four. There was four. PARRIS. Who? Who? Their names, their names! TITUBA. Oh, how many times he bid me kill you, Mister Parris! PARRIS. Kill me! TITUBA. (Starting to weep.) He say Mister Parris must be kill! Mister Parris no goodly man, Mister Parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat! (Parris backs away a step L., then all straighten up. They gasp.) \ tell him, no! { don't hate that man! 1 don't want kill that man! But he say, You work for me, Tituba, and I make you free! I give you pretty dress to wear, and put you way high up in the air and you gone fly back to Barbados! And I say, You lie, Devil, you lie! And then he come one stormy night to me, and he say, Look! I have white people belong to me. And [ look... And there was Goody Good. PARRIS. Sarah Good! TITUBA. (Rocking violently.) Aye, six, and Goody Osburn... 24 ANN. I knew it! Goody Osburn were midwife to m: i three times. I begged you, Thomas, did I not? I begged him not to call OnbaE because I feared her, my babies always shriveled in her hands... uate (During this uaene is crying praises to the Lord.) Take courage, you must give us eit names. How can you b these children suffering? Look at them, Tiruba— (He is aie Betty on the bed.) look at their God-given innocence; their souls are so tender; we must protect them, Tituba; the Devil is out and preying on them like a beast upon the flesh of the pure lamb... God will bless you for your help... ABIGAIL. (Hands clasped, eyes closed.) 1 want to open - anyself! I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jeeual T daneed for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand—I saw Sarah Good (Betty's hands appear above headboard am eee aa with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! is i eee, picks it up as a ant ) P jrniete cece TTY. (As all turn to her.) | saw Geor bs wi i saw Goody Howe with the Devil! gethestnasiatelea PARRIS. She speaks. She speaks! Bee os © God!—it is broken, they are free! TTY. ling it out hysterically and with i Martha Bellows with the Devil! paneer pes re) saw Ale. (It is rising to a great glee.) | saw Goody Sibber with the PUTNAM. The marshal, I'll call the marshal! HALE. Let the marshal bring irons. BETTY. I saw Alice Barrow with the Devil! I saw Goody Pike with the Devil. ABIGAIL. I saw Mister Barton with the Devil! BETTY. I saw Goody Cobb with the Devil. ae I saw Goody Franklin with the Devil. I saw Goody Ho ith thi i i i Pe aia nits ly Hopper with the Devil. (On their ecstatic ABIGAIL. I saw Goody Hawkins with the Devil...!