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He had been alone a week,
when accident brought him in contact with the trapper and the bee-
hunter. Part of their interview has been related, and the reader can
readily imagine the explanations that succeeded the tale he recounted,
and which led, as has already been seen, to the recovery of his bride.

CHAPTER XVI
These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence,
Therefore, I pray you, stay not to discourse,
But mount you presently.
--Shakspeare.
An hour had slid by, in hasty and nearly incoherent questions and
answers, before Middleton, hanging over his recovered treasure with
that sort of jealous watchfulness with which a miser would regard his
hoards, closed the disjointed narrative of his own proceedings by
demanding--
"And you, my Inez; in what manner were you treated?"
"In every thing, but the great injustice they did in separating me so
forcibly from my friends, as well perhaps as the circumstances of my
captors would allow.


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