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 I was told, that he had been seen no more since I had left the inn. My deliverer staid three days with me, and then we parted in a most affectionate manner. The next day I sat out for my own country, where I happily arrived without any farther accident."

"Here Hellfried concluded his wonderful tale, which he, as he added, never had been able to unfold, though he had taken the greatest pains to come at the bottom of it. He looked at his friend, eager to hear what he would say to those extraordinary adventures; but Herrman was lost in profound meditation for many minutes, at length he began: "Brother, thy tale is very wonderful, so wonderful, that I should not have believed it, if I had not met, on my travels, with adventures, which seem to have some connexion with thine."

"Hellfried had apprehended that Herrman would laugh at his story, as many of his friends had done; he was therefore very