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Magiſtrate with it; for they look’d upon my Brother’s Conduct as ſuſpicious. Alnafchar flept well enough all Night: But the next Morning, when he came out of his Houſe, he found Twenty of the Magiſtrate’s Men, who ſeized him. Come along with us, ſaid they, our Maſter would ſpeak with you. My Brother pray’d to have Patience for a Moment, and offer’d them a Sum of Money to let him eſcape; but inſtead of liſtening to him, they bound him, and forced him to go along with them. They met in the Street an old Acquaintance of my Brother’s, who ſtopp’d them a while, and ask’d them, why they ſeized my Brother? And offer’d them a conſiderable Sum to let him eſcape, and to tell the Magiſtrate, they could not find him? But this would not do, ſo he was carry’d before the Magiſtrate.
Here Scheherazade left off, becauſe ſhe ſaw Day; but reſumed her Story thus next Morning.
The Hundred and Eightieth Night.
WHEN the Officers brought him. before the Magiſtrate, he ask’d him where he had the Goods: which he carry’d Home laft Night? Sir, reply’d Alnaſchar, I am. ready to tell-yow: all the Truth; but allow me firſt to have Recourſeto your Clemency, and to beg your Promiſe, that nothing ſhall be done to me, I give it you, ſays the Magiſtrate. Then my Brother told him the whole Story without Diſguiſe, from the Time the old Woman came into his Houſe to ſay her. Prayers, to the Time the Lady made her Eſcape, after he had kill’d the Black, the Greek Slave, and the Old Woman: And as for what he had carry’d to his Houle, he pray’d the Judge to leave him Part of it, for the five hundred Pieces of Gold that he was robb’d of.
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