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 ped on the road before the house where my carriage stood, where a gentleman asking, whether he would carry Don Carlos to town, he answered in the affirmative and was ordered to drive it with all possible dispatch. He also added, that the gentleman had satisfied him for his trouble before-hand.

I now went up stairs and found nobody there, except those servants who had remained in town. I then ordered the same man to carry me back from whence he fetched me with all expedition. He gladly obeyed, and at a small distance from town, I met my own coachman quite out of breath crying, "Sop thief!" I pulled the string; the carriage stopt; and as soon as my man came up I asked him how he came to leave his charge? The poor fellow, told me, that a gentleman who he thought belonged to our company, had desired him to go into the back-yard to have a glass of wine, and wait there, till I should bid him return to the horses. Thar seeing the rest of the company walking in the garden, he expected every moment to be called; but was soon alarmed by some cries, when he