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 I was for a good while always afeared, but at last, as I may say, I grew used to it, and so I was content as well as I could.

"When he came and told me your honour was at t'other wicket, and made me fasten the outer gate, and ordered me into t'other room to shoot you, if you forced your way farther. Dear me, what a fright I was in, the pistol was of no use to me, and when you came again my heart rejoiced, in the hope that you was going to live with us; but after the first day master told me you must go again, which made me cruel sorrowful, and this, Sir, is all I know."

Ferdinand, heartily tired of this prolix account began to consider how he could find the way to this unhappy person, or persons, who were confined. He returned to the room where the deceased lay, and searching his pockets found only one crown and a key, which key Francis said belonged to the library bookcase, where he kept all the keys of the Castle; they again descended to the library, and opening the desk saw a bunch of keys,