" The man beckoned with a smile, as much as to say:
"Thank you, sir, that is quite sufficient," and I walked
deliberately away.
I had not well left the gate till, hearing a great noise coming from
the deep glen towards the east, I turned that way, deeming myself
quite secure in this my new disguise, to see what it was, and if
matters were as had been described to me. There I met a great
mob, sure enough, coming with two dead bodies stretched on
boards, and decently covered with white sheets. I would fain have
examined their appearance, had I not perceived the apparent fury
in the looks of the men, and judged from that how much more
safe it was for me not to intermeddle in the affray. I cannot tell
how it was, but I felt a strange and unwonted delight in viewing
this scene, and a certain pride of heart in being supposed the
perpetrator of the unnatural crimes laid to my charge. This was a
feeling quite new to me; and if there were virtues in the robes of
the illustrious foreigner, who had without all dispute preserved
my life at this time: I say, if there was any inherent virtue in these
robes of his, as he had suggested, this was one of their effects'
that they turned my heart towards that which was evil, horrible,
and disgustful.
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