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 As oon as he mis’d him, he gave over her Search, concluding he had carried them off, and went directly to the Contable, in order to have him apprehended: The young Man was informed, that a Contable had been in Search of him, but he regarded it but little, not doubting but all would be well next Day. Three or four Days paed, and till he was told, the Contable was upon the Hunt for him, this made him lye concealed, he could not comprehend the Meaning of it, he imagined no les, than that the Maid had a Mind to convert the Spoons to her own Ue, and put the Robbery upon him.

It happened, at this Time, that the Mitres being perfectly recovered of her late Indipoition, was return’d Home, in Company with her Mother-in-Law; the firt News he heard, was of the Los of the Spoons, with the Manner how; the Maid telling her, at the ame Time, that the young Man was run away. The young Fellow had Intelligence of the Mitres’s Arrival, and conidering with himelf, that he could never appear again in his Buines, unles this Matter was got over, and he being a good natured Woman, he took a Reolution of going directly to her, and of telling her the whole Story, only with this Difference, that he did it for a Jet.

The Mitres could carce believe it, however, he went directly to the Maid’s Room, and turning down the Bed Cloaths, there, to her great Surprize, found the three Spoons; upon this he deired the young Man to go Home and mind his Buines, for he hould have no Trouble about it.

The Mitres could not imagine the Meaning of this, he never had found the Maid guilty of any pilfering, and therefore it could not enter her Head, that he deigned to teal the Spoons her Rh