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 the other readily consented. They only waited until Mr. S should receive his half year's stipend to carry it into execution.

His master summoned him, and charged him with the crime he had meditated. He was sulky, and would confess nothing. Mr. S gave them much good advice, which the robber repaid with tears and blessings; the servant with threats of revenge for the injury he had done his character.

A few weeks afterwards, he learned, that, the unfortunate robber had died of a mortification in his arm, in a cabin on a neighbouring mountain.

The following year Mr. S had occasion to go to a town 30 miles distant: towards evening, when he was very near it, he was surrounded by a party of men, who pulled him from his horse, and proceeded to rifle his pockets. Among them he recognised his man Dennis, who, notwithstanding the manner in which he parted with his employer, interfered on his behalf, and his companions allowed him to proceed.