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will be more convenient. When he had ſaid this, he went on, and walk’d all the reſt of the Day, without ſtopping. The Jeweller being weary with walking, vexed to ſee Night approach, and that the Stranger had walk’d all Day without acquainting him where he was going, began to loſe his Patience. Then they came to a Path which led them to the Tygris, and as ſoon as they came to to the River, they embark’d in a little Boat, and went over. Then the Stranger led the Jeweller through a long Street, where he had never been before, and after he had brought him through I know not how many By-Streets, he ſtopt at a Gate, which he opened. He cauſed the Jeweller to go in, and then he ſhut and bolted the Gate, with a huge Iron Bolt, and conducted him to a Chamber, where there were ten other Men, all of them as great Strangers to the Jeweller, as he that brought him thither.

Theſe ten Men received the Jeweller without any Complements. They bad him ſit down, of which he had great Need, for he was not only out of Breath, with walking ſo far, but the Fear he was in, to find himſelf with People whom he thought he had Reaſon to dread, would have diſabled him to ſtand. They Waited for their Leader to go to Supper, and as ſoon as he came, it was ſerved up. They waſhed their Hinds, obliged the Jeweller to do the like, and ſit at Table with them. After Supper the Man ask’d him, if he knew whom he ſpoke to? He anſwered no, and that he knew not the Place he was in. Tell us your laſt Nights Adventure, ſaid they to him, and conceal nothing, from us. The Jeweller being aſtoniſh’d at this Diſcourſe, anſwered, Gentlemen, it’s probable you know it already: That’s true, replied they, the young Man and the young Lady who were at your Houſe Yeſternight, told it us, but we would know it from your own Mouth. The Jeweller needed no more to inform him that he ſpoke to the Highway-men, who had broke up and plunder’d his Houſe. Gentlemen, ſays he, I am much troubled for that young Man and the Lady; can you tell me any thing of them?