Volume V Part 63 (2/2)
One day, as I was going into St Jaround floor of a house They called out tothe officer of my acquaintance ca curious to see them I retracted my steps
When I entered the room I was accosted by the scoundrelly Pocchini, dressed in ahters
”Indeed,” said I, ”I re art”
”You lie!” said the iave hi it in his face, and then left the roo officer who had brought o without giving his friend some satisfaction
”Tell him to come out, and do you escort hi hiht for hiet my sword But do you know this man whom you call your friend?”
”No, but he is an officer, and it is I that brought hiht to the last drop of o; I will await you”
In the course of a quarter of an hour they all calishood many people about, and I went before them till we reached Hyde Park Pocchini atte my cane,--
”Scoundrel, draw your sword, unless you want !”
”I will never draw upon a defenceless ave him a bloithhis sword, began to cry out that I wished to draw hied, sir, I see you know the gentleru as he went
On the way I infor Pocchini as a rogue, and he agreed that I had been perfectly right ”Unfortunately,” he added, ”I ahters”
When ere in the midst of St Ja when I noticed Goudar with one of them on each side
”How did you come to know these ladies?” said I
”Their father the captain,” he answered, ”has sold me jewels; he introduced me to them”
”Where did you leave our father?” asked one
”In Hyde Park, after giving hiht”
The young English my ill-treatment of their father, and shookto ain
A whih to consent, made me dine with these miserable women in a tavern on the borders of London The rascally Goudar made them drunk, and in this state they told some terrible truths about their pretended father He did not live with them, but paid them nocturnal visits in which he robbed them of all the money they had earned He was their pander, andthem to pass it off as a joke if the theft was discovered
They gave him the stolen articles, but he never said what he did with the at this involuntary confession, re hi the duty of escorting them back to Goudar He cairls had been arrested and taken to prison just as they were entering their house
”I have just been to Pocchini's,” said he, ”but the landlord tells me he has not been in since yesterday”