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 my late adventures and the supposed murder. Hardly able to articulate his words, he expressed his regret at the fate of the unhappy sufferers, and seemed to be extremely agitated with grief and remorse. I told him, what I had done for the relief of the surviving innocent man, and of the family of him that was dead. All I could say, had but little effect on composing his perturbed spirits, and the only consolation he felt, was, as he told me, his having an ample fortune, which allowed him to make some amends to those cruelly injured persons, which he afterwards did, in the same proportion I had already done.

He then gave me ample details of the melancholy death of my mother, who had left a will, constituting Alfonso, my servant and guide, sole heir of the bulk of our property. "I was present," said Don Antonio, "when this will was made; and remonstrated against a munificence which I condemned as ill-bestowed, urging at the same time in support of my argument, that Alfonso, according to appearances, might be suspected as the author,