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 and impose on the credulity of the peasants, as the gang only came there at night, and had a watch word."

This confession was made by the same villain who had before applied at the Castle, and the same cowardly spirit, generally attendant on roguery, had now induced him to make a complete discovery to save his life.

"He was not of the party when they took the jewels from the Lady, but had heard she had brought them from Turkey. What became of her after they had stripped her on the mountains, none of them could tell."

The steward concluded, by saying, that "there was little doubt but that they would all suffer for their crimes; the property remained in the hands of the Magistrates to be claimed."

This letter gave Ferdinand further occasion to admire at the justice of Providence, which sooner or later brings villainy to its deserved punishment; for

"Foul deeds will rise, "Tho' all the earth o'erwhelms them, to men's eyes."