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 office, but we had better hurry to Mr. Josephs', if his daughter is so sick," said Dr. Juno.

"Thank you, sir; here comes the carriage already," responded the stranger.

The gentlemanly man, whose face was somewhat familiar to Dr. Juno, motioned to the driver to drive to the curb, which was in a rather illy lit part of the street; the driver jumped from his box, opened the carriage door, when the male servant stepped out, and Dr. Juno was politely invited to step in, the stranger and pretended servant following, the driver closed the door, and off rolled the vehicle.

All were silent; but in a few moments Dr. Juno felt some strange sensations, and looking around the carriage saw what seemed to be a bundle of clothes, which he thought was the servant's wardrobe, when suddenly, as they turned a dark corner, he was vigorously grasped and gagged, and bound hand and foot, so that he was entirely powerless.

The carriage was rattled along speedily, turning an innu merable quantity of corners, until, after driving for what seemed an age to Dr. Juno, it ceased to rattle, having struck a country road, and after continuing straight ahead for what seemed a long time, a few turns were made, when the team was stopped, and in great darkness he was roughly seized by four men and carried into a damp apartment, and dumped on a hard cemented floor, when a voice said:

"Have you got him safe and sound?"

"All right," responded another brutal voice; then they all departed, and the last that Dr. Juno heard of them that night was the rattling of several immense keys as they locked the doors.