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THE ADVENTURES OF
all over the town ; upon which many people;
being curious to fee me, came and prefen#;
themfelves, one after another, at a fmall chim1
through which the light was conveyed into m:1
prifon, and alter having obferved me for fojn^
time, went away. I was furprized at this novl
ty; for fmee the day of my imprifonment, I h
not before feen a living foul at that wind*
which ferved to enlighten a court where hor
reigned in filence. Guelling from this, thJ
made fome noife in town, I did not know whetj
to interpret it as a good or bad omen.
One of the firft that offered themfelves to
view was the little ballad-linger of Mondond
who, having been equally afraid of the tortui
had fled as well as 1.—I knew him again imrf
diately, and, as he did not pretend to have forj
me, w'e faluted one another, and falling ind
long converfation, 1 was obliged to repeat my jt|i
ventures a-new: for bis part he informed me*
what had happened at the inn at Cacabelos, t
tween the carrier and the new-married wife, afj
vTe had been driven away by a panic: in a .v >1
he acquainted me with the whole of what I ha
already rehearfed on that fubject. Arterwaj
taking leave of me for the prefent, he promi*
without lofs of time, to labour for my deliveranl
and every body who came (hs he did) thiod
curiofity, feemed affeded with my mistortif
and even adured me, that they would join thi:
little ballad-finger, and do all that lay m till:
power to procure my enlargement. M |
They kept their promife effectually, and fpol
in my behalf to the corregidor, who no long
doubting my innocence, efpecially when th|
ballad-finger had told him what he knew of tlr
jnatter, at the end of three wreeks came into th:
prifoE