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 ting seat. He understood this Lady was an old mistress of the Count's, who had injured him with another whom he loved. He was highly provoked at not getting the other, but swore to be revenged on this.

What the design was he could not say; the Lady was confined for that night, and they were ordered to be in readiness to travel again: But the next morning all was confusion, the Lady had escaped out of window by a very extraordinary contrivance; the Count was almost raving mad; he ordered the valet and himself to take horses, and attend him through the wood and adjacent villages, and promised a hundred crowns to the person who discovered her.

They stopped at a small house, at the end of the wood, to make inquiries. A Turk came out; it was with difficulty they understood each other. Whilst they were speaking a very beautiful woman came out, and asked, "If they were gallant Gentlemen, who would release a Lady from Turks and Infidels?"—-