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Nay, my good friend, keep quiet, and only send an officer 
here with full powers to conclude a treaty of peace. When 
that affair is settled, I will let you go." 
We could hardly believe our ears at these words. Yet 
it had not escaped us that the general was determined in 
any case to march to Coomassie, which the king wished to 
prevent by an expression of ready compliance. We 
therefore urged him to show that he meant what he had 
said by immediately setting the invalid K. at liberty. 
Beyond all our expectation, he at once replied, " Go, go ; 
I will send you to the governor, but you must leave Coo- 
massie to-night !" It sounded almost like Pharaoh's last 
command to the Israelites ; and thus the way was found 
to bring out the prisoners from the prison (Is. xlii. 7). 
Encouraged by this concession, we further begged that 
the Fantees might be released from their irons, which 
was conceded on the spot. 
How greatly we all rejoiced on again reaching home, 
where everyone was trembling, while Mrs. Plange and 
the servants stood round my Rosa ready for an attack 
similar to that at Fomana. We felt as if going ourselves 
with our dear invalid ; to know that he was free, seemed 
so clearly to point to our own deliverance. 
About eight o'clock a chief brought K., from the king, 
a beautifully woven dress such as was worn only by the 
royal family, and thirty-six dollars in gold dust. He 
was to be summoned to take leave of his majesty at nine 
o'clock, and was then to appear in the presented dress, 
which was so heavy that he begged to be allowed fco de- 
fer putting it on till he reached the palace. Accompanied 
by M. Bonnat he once more crawled through the courts 
where the guards were posted, who started up on seeing 
the torches, but were quieted by a movement of the 
leader's hand. In the smallest court, by the stone ho'jise, 
sat the king, stroking a cat which lay in his lap, while six 
