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     3. Cannot shut box.
  C. Consults Obeah woman as to what to do.
     1. Invite them to tea & I'll give you something to   
     [[insertion]] ^ put in food to [[/insertion]] make them  
     forget your husband
  D. Mercedita invites them to tea.
  E. All ladies, die
  F. Mercedita brought to trial.
     1. Obeah woman missing
     2. M. accused to witch craft & sentenced to be burnt
  G. Bluebeard returns and rescues her. 

I have a feeling that Emma Lindsey Squier wrote something along 
this line in a good Housekeeping. in all likelihood she heard it, as she stayed at the 1829 some year ago.
Another good story if that of:-
--John Teach and the Education of Eva Wilson
He sends her, a 13 year old girl, to Denmark to be educated, so that when she returns she will be worthy to be his wife. She knows nothing of this, altho' her aunt & guardian does. While in Denmark she falls in love & marries a man

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who is going to the colonies to apprehend a certain pirate (same John Teach). Not only is J.T. caught, but it later develops that John had gained his first ill-gotten wealth by robbing the very man to whom Eva is married.
--John Teaches Doubloons
A fairly good ghost story of wealth acquired with the aid of a ghost. Divi-divi the money lender gets the house which had belonged to John Teach and the ghost helps him to find the fortune.
Gertrude Atherton visited the Taylors many years ago when she was writing "the Conqueror". Dr Taylor was alive then. He would have been quite amazed -- so says his son -- to hear she had undergone the Rejuvination Process which she has. The story of this appeared in one of the current magazines. "Liberty" I believe.
This Saturday afternoon we took a walk up the hill behind the 1829 -- the wall described by Aspinall as "the rough path to Mafalie" -- which

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Transcription Notes:
"but half an hour afterwards she found herself closeted with Mimmy Lafourche, the notorious Obeah woman from Martinique,"