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 whilt he roared aloud with the pain, telling him it was a jut reward for the torture he had put him to a while ago, when he tugged at a tooth, till he broke it in his jaw. "Ah, for the love of heaven," cried Pedroa, "have more pity on me; for the ake of St. Nicolas de Tolentino, my holy patron, be net o unmerciful to a poor barber urgeon, and I will have your worhip's beard for nothing as long as I have life.” One of the meengers of the anditory came in, and bade the felow trike off the prioner's etters, for that the holy fathers were in council, and demanded him for Examination. “This is omething extraordinary," quoth the tormentor, “I hould not have expected it this twelvemonth to come.” Pedroa's fetters were truck off; ome brandy was applied to taunch the bleeding of his cheeks; his hands and face were wahed, and a hort jacket of coare tikng thrown over him, and the meenger with an aitant taking him each under an arm, led him into a pacious chamber, where, at the head of a long table at his excellency the Inquiidor General with ix of his aeors, three on each ide the chair of tate. The alguazil mayor, a ecretary and two notaries with other officers of the holy council, were attending in their places.

The prioner was placed behind a bar at the foot of the table between the meengers who brought him in, and having made his obeiance to the awful preence in the mot upplicating manner, he was called upon, according to the uual form of quetions, by one of the junior judges to declare his name, parentage, profeion, age, place of abode, and to anwer various interrogatories of the like trifling nature. His excellency the Inquiidor General now opened his reverend lips, and in a olemn tone of voice, that penetrated to the heart of