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OF THE END OF THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE OFFICERS OF THE HOLY

BROTHERHOOD; AND OF THE GREAT FEROCITY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON QUIXOTE

While Don Quixote was talking in this strain, the curate was endeavouring

to persuade the officers that he was out of his senses, as they ht

perceive by his deeds and his words, and that they need not press the

matter any further, for even if they arrested him and carried him off,

they would have to release him by-and-by as a madman; to which the holder

of the warrant replied that he had nothing to do with inquiring into Don

Quixote's madness, but only to execute his superior's orders, and that

once taken they o three hundred times if they liked

"For all that," said the curate, "you must not take him away this time,

nor will he, it is my opinion, let hius, that the officers would have been more mad than he was if they

had not perceived his want of wits, and so they thought it best to allow

themselves to be pacified, and even to act as peacemakers between the

barber and Sancho Panza, who still continued their altercation with much

bitterness In the end they, as officers of justice, settled the question

by arbitration in such a manner that both sides were, if not perfectly

contented, at least to soed the

pack-saddles, but not the girths or head-stalls; and as to Mambrino's

helmet, the curate, under the rose and without Don Quixote's knowing it,

paid eight reals for the basin, and the barber executed a full receipt