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 affection as Jago evinced for his wife, is beyond the sphere of dissimulation. The very infants partook in it."

—"And did the woman actually weep, as you went away?"

—"To me, it seemed so. But of Jago's tears I am certain."

—"Still I am in the dark. It seems, however, they are mere tools in the hands of the old fellow, who is their chief."

—"But I do not see, what reason they should have to brook such insulting slavery? After all, oppressed as they are by poverty, what would it now avail them to fly! They show indeed, that spontaneous and easy resignation, which indicates they are both contented with their humble lot."

—"I conceive you, Don Carlos, and this makes me still more curious of the secret of the cavern. They probably are members of the cabal, and solely actuated by its laws and principles. Their plan must be grand—"

—"But sanguinary, too, I am much afraid."