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 no one answered, he opened it, and found the Lady was gone.

"He searched the other apartments, neither of them were in the house, the back door was on the latch, and he supposed they had gone that way. He directly got into the carriage, and returned into the wood, every part of it he searched; where the horses could not penetrate he alighted, and explored every recess, but all was fruitless; he wasted the whole day in examining the wood and its environs, and at length was compelled to dismiss the carriage, and return to the house.

"He now thought they had contrived to escape, and leave him to suffer; yet where they could be hid was very extraordinary.—He resolved to go the next morning to all the post-houses, and, describing their persons, find if they had, by any means, got a carriage. This he had done all that morning; and at length it came into his head to call at the Turk's, and by some pretence learn whether the Count and the master of the house were dead or not."