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Haespele had been sent by the anxious parents to the eminence where they had observed a light, to see what was going on there. Martina would not believe what Adam said: -- "Who knows but they may have found our Joseph in the mill? " and yet she wanted to go there instantly herself; but Adam persuaded her to wait, at all events till Haespele came back.
At last he came; he ran as fast as he could to the spot where he had left them, but they were no longer there. "Is the whole world entirely bewitched this blessed night? " said Haespele. Adam and Martina however, at that moment, were engaged in laying hold of the three angels. Adam shouted to them in his powerful voice to stop, as they came near: the angels, however, seemed to feel such desperate alarm at any of the Roettmann family, that they fairly took to their heels.