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 uncle was in, at ſeeing his nephew was the perſon who had murdered him. He could not ſpeak, but kiſſing him yielded up his breath. Barnwell’s agonies were prodigious; he fainted away on the body, and when he recovered was going to kill himſelf, only he remembered the laws of chriſtianity forbid ſelf murder.

Lucy, who was Millwood’s ſervant, and well trained in the paths of vice, had yet ſo much tenderneſs left, ſhe could not bear the thoughts of her miſtreſs’s barbarity, and ſending GeogeGeorge [sic] to deſtroy his beſt friend, in whoſe fall himſelf muſt be involved. She reſolved if poſſible to prevent the miſchief from being carried into execution, and to that end waited on Thoroughgood, telling him the errand that George was gone about, and among other things informed him of his own loſs. Thoroughgood was unwilling to believe her, as he found no deficiency in his caſh, and therefore was in hopes that the other part was as falſe as his having embezzled the money; but ſhe aſſuring him it was true, he ſent one of his ſervants to the uncle’s houſe. But alas! it was too late.

George, as ſoon as the murder was over, retired to Millwood’s, his fear being ſo great that he could not ſtay to take any money from him, and Millwood finding he had not