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 aid, he rang a bell, and ordered Nicolas to be forthwith liberated, bidding the meenger return his clothes intantly to him with all that belonged to him, and having flipt a pure into his hand well filled with doubloons, he bade him be gone about his buines, and not ee his face again till he had executed his commands

Nicolas boulted out of the porch without taking leave of the altar, and never checked his peed till he found himelf fairly houed under helter of his own beloved bras bain.———"Aha!" quoth Nicolas, "my lord inquiidor, I ee the king is not likely to gain a ubject more by your intrigues: A pretty job you have et me about; and o, when I have put the poor lady to ret with your damnable edative, my tongue mut be topt next to prevent its babbling; But I'll hew you I was not born in Andaluia for nothing." Nicolas now opened a ecret drawer, and took out a few pieces of money, which in fact was his whole tock of cah in the world; he loaded and primed his pitols, and carefully lodged them in the houers of his addle, he buckled to his ide his truty pada, and hatened to caparion his mule. "Ah, thou imp of the old one," quoth he as he entered the table, "art not ahamed to look me in the face? But come, huey, thou owet me a good turn methinks, tand by me this once, and be friends for ever! thou art in good cae, and if thou wilt put thy bet foot foremot, like a faithful beat, thou halt not want for barley by the way.” The bargain was oon truck between Nicolas and his mule, he mounted her in the happy moment and pointing his coure towards the bridge of Toledo, which proudly trides with half a dozen lofty arches over a tream carce three feet wide, he found himelf as compleatly in a deart in half a mile's riding,