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 and conducted him to a lonely public-house within a small distance from the town, which was the usual haunt of the recruiting officers and their associates."

"Having conducted him into a pleasure-house in the garden, built over a cellar, to which a trap door led from the room where we then were. I asked him what he desired to know? and seeing him hesitate to fix on a question, I inquired if he should not like to know his benefactor, who had interested himself so much for him? He consented to it, and, having drawn a circle round the trap-door, which could be let down from below, I placed him to the centre of it. Some of my associates, who were concealed in the cellar, imitated the roaring of thunder, during my conjurations, opened the trap door and caused him to sink down into the cellar: He who already had acted the ghost of his mother appeared again in his former disguise; some blew powder of calophony through the