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As for hih road, he made for El Toboso, and the

next day reached the inn where the nised it he felt as if he were oncehiht well have done so, for it was dinner-ti hot as it had been all cold fare with hi drove hio in or not, and as he was hesitating there came

out two persons who at once recognised him, and said one to the other:

"Senor licentiate, is not he on the horse there Sancho Panza who, our

adventurer's housekeeper told us, went off with her master as esquire?"

"So it is," said the licentiate, "and that is our friend Don Quixote's

horse;" and if they knew him so well it was because they were the curate

and the barber of his own village, the same who had carried out the

scrutiny and sentence upon the books; and as soon as they recognised

Sancho Panza and Rocinante, being anxious to hear of Don Quixote, they

approached, and calling him by his name the curate said, "Friend Sancho

Panza, where is your nised them at once, and determined to keep secret the place

and circumstances where and under which he had left his ed in a certain quarter on a certain

reat importance to him which he could not disclose for the

eyes in his head

"Nay, nay," said the barber, "if you don't tell us where he is, Sancho

Panza, ill suspect as we suspect already, that you have murdered and

robbed him, for here you are mounted on his horse; in fact, you must

produce the master of the hack, or else take the consequences"

"There is no need of threats with me," said Sancho, "for I am not a man

to rob or murder anybody; let his own fate, or God who ed verypenance in