All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkeness; he had been seen many specters in his time , and had more than once beset by Satan in diverse shapes; in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in spite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplesity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was- a woman. Among the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel.....