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higher agent at work for his deliverance than thou hast any knowledge of.

What agent?

Providence, which protects the innocent, and returns the cruelty of the wicked into his own portion.

Art thou become his confessor, too? Why dost thou detain me here with thy homilies?

Being so artless thyself, thou canst not possibly guess my reason.

He has escaped! Ho, there!—to the search! to the pursuit! the prisoner has escaped. ( and the others run to him, and he gives them orders confusedly.) Go by the street, no—by the south walk—no, no, give the alarm there—lose not a moment.

Let him take this alarm for his pains: would what he apprehends were true![Exit.