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 placed in a situation that will effectually secure me from any more discoveries of your's.

"I now leave you.—To-morrow, at an early hour, we shall conclude the business."

He then opened the door, and retired.—I heard it locked and bolted on the other side.

For some moments, I remained fixed in astonishment and terror. I knew him too well to doubt of his resolution, and I saw no means of escaping from his power.—Furious and malignant, he was capable of the most atrocious actions, and I had every evil to apprehend.

The alternative of death would have been my preferable choice, but that was only thrown out to alarm me.—Murder was not his choice.—For some hours I sat almost stupefied with horror: I found, that during the deprivation of my senses, my pockets had been emptied of their contents. I looked round the apartment; it was a decent room, but without a bed; a sofa, a few chairs, and a table, composed all the furniture.