Madrid 



besides our horses, and my marselles^ and about a dozen 

 dollars from me." 



" But were the robbers never caught ? " we inquired. 



" Oh, no ! One of them I myself recognised by his voice, 

 though I took good care not to let him see I did, or he 

 would have made away with me on the spot.'* 



" And did you not inform against him afterwards ? " 



" No ! I thought it better not ; for it would have been 

 difficult to prove, and he was a very desperate character, 

 who would have killed me as soon as a fat capon, if he 

 had borne a grudge against me. Besides, I had not lost 

 much — perhaps fifty dollars' worth altogether. It was 

 not worth while to make a fuss about it, and run into 

 danger." 



" But, my dear sir, your friend's rents ! the cause of 

 public security ! " &c., &c., in a long discourse on the 

 deplorable moral result of an acquiescence in such dis- 

 orders. It had not struck him that there was any immo- 

 rality in being robbed. 



We reached Madrid to-day at six in the morning, and 

 went to bed at once by broad daylight. We got up and 

 breakfasted at two. It is now night. 



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