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'Such was my situation, when the perfidy of Don Alphonso's postillion conducted hie His youth, air, and manners interested me most forcibly in his behalf The absence ofwished to find, and I resolved to risque every thing to preserve the Stranger The vigilance of Baptiste prevented er: I knew thatthe secret would be immediately punished with death; and however ee to sacrifice it for the sake of preserving that of another Person My only hope rested upon procuring succour fro: At this I resolved to try; and should an opportunity offer of warning Don Alphonso of his danger unobserved, I was determined to seize it with avidity By Baptiste's orders I went upstairs to er's Bed: I spread upon it Sheets in which a Traveller had been hts before, and which still were stained with blood I hoped that these ilance of our Guest, and that He would collect frons of my perfidious Husband Neither was this the only step which I took to preserve the Stranger Theodore was confined to his bed by illness I stole into his room unobserved by my Tyrant, coerness He rose in spite of his malady, and dressed himself with all speed I fastened one of the Sheets round his arms, and lowered him from the Window He flew to the Stable, took Claude's Horse, and hastened to Strasbourg Had He been accosted by the Banditti, He was to have declared hie by Baptiste, but fortunately He reached the Toithoutany obstacle I, He entreated assistance froistrature: His Story passed froe of my Lord the Baron Anxious for the safety of his Lady, who, it struck hiht have fallen into the power of the Robbers He accoe, and arrived just in ti once more into the hands of our Eneuerite to enquire why the sleepy potion had been presented to me She said that Baptiste supposed me to have ar resistance: It was a precaution which He always took, since as the Travellers had no hopes of escaping, Despair would have incited them to sell their lives dearly