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 to leave the country with their booty, and go into England, and as banditti were known to infest those mountains, it would be generally believed both you and him had been plundered and murdered.

"I hugged myself in security, gave him the promised reward, returned home, and pretended to be uneasy that you did not arrive: I believed myself safe from a discovery, when the avenging hand of Heaven was uplifted to overwhelm me with the punishment due to my crimes.

"Eternal justice preserved you, and the day of retribution is at hand; a life of deceit, crimes and falsehoods, will soon be terminated here, and my soul trembles for its doom hereafter."