Chapter 79

While occupied with these reflections, a knock came at the door of the study, and the minister said, “Come in!”—not wholly devoid of an idea that he might behold an evil spirit. And so he did! It was old Roger Chillingworth that entered. The minister stood white and speechless, with one hand on the Hebrew Scriptures, and the other spread upon his breast. “Welcome home, reverend sir,” said the physician. “And how found you that godly man, the Apostle Eliot? But methinks, dear sir, you look pale, as if the travel thr…