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 left to his olitary meditations. Haples being! what a cene of horror.———Nicolas felt all the terrors of his condition, but being an Andaluian, and like his countrymen, of a lively imagination, he began to turn over all the reources of his invention for ome happy fetch, if any uch might occur, for helping him out of the dimal limbo he was in: He was not long to seek for the caue of his misfortune; his adventure with the barefooted friars was a ready olution of all difficulties of that nature, had there been any: there was however another thing, which might have troubled a stouter heart than Nicolas'sHe was a Jew.This of a certain would have been a taggering item in a poor devil's confeion, but then it was a ecret to all the world but Nicolas, and Nicolas's concience did not jut then urge him to reveal it.

He now began to overhaul the inventory of his peronals about him, and with ome atisfaction counted three little medals of the bleed virgin, two Agnus Deis, a aint Nicolas de Tolentino, and a formidable tring of beads all pendant from his neck and within his hirt; in his pockets he had a paper of dried figs, a mall bundle of fegaras, a case of lancers, quirt and forceps, and two old razors in a leathern envelope; thee he had delivered one by one to the alguazil who firt arreted him,———"and let him make the mot of them,” aid he to himelf," they can never prove me an Iraelite by a cae of razors,"———Upon a cloer rummage, however, he dicovered in a ecret pocket a letter, which the alguazil had overlooked, and which his patient Donna Leonora de Calafonda had given him in charge to deliver as directed——— "Well, well," cried he, "let it pas; there can be no mytery in this harmles crawl; a letter of advice to ome friend or relation. I'll not