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 was Wolf who committed these depredations."

"Meeting with success in our nocturnal rambles our temerity increased, and we way-laid the traveller on the high road, however I took great care not to perpetrate a second murder. The terror of my name soon spread itself all over the country, and the neighbouring magistrates tried every means to get me in their power; a great reward was promised to him who should take me, dead or alive, and, if one of my associates, a full pardon; however, I was so fortunate to elude the watchfulness of my pursuers for a considerable time, and to frustrate every attempt on my liberty."

"I had carried on this infernal trade a whole year, when I began to be tired of it. The gang, whose leader I was, having disappointed my sanguine hopes, I soon perceived, with terror, how much my fancy, heated by wine and loose desires, had been