Sight, yet should it immediately cease, to have a Man left in the Dark by
a suddain deficiency of it, would make him stare with his Eyes, and
though he could not see, endeavour to look about him. Why just thus did
it fare with our Adventurer; who seeming to have wandred both into the
Dominions of Silence and of Night, began to have some tender for his own
Safety, and would willingly have groped his Way back again; when he heard
a Voice, as from a Person whose Breath had been stopp'd by some forcible
Oppression, and just then, by a violent Effort, was broke through the
Restraint.--'Yet--Yet--(again reply'd the Voice, still struggling for
Air,) 'Forbear--and I'll forgive what's past--I have done nothing yet
that needs a Pardon, (says another) and what is to come, will admit of
none.

Here the Person who seemed to be the Oppressed, made several Attempts to
speak, but they were only inarticulate Sounds, being all interrupted and
choaked in their Passage.

Aurelian was sufficiently astonish'd, and would have crept nearer to the
Place whence he guessed the Voice to come; but he was got among the Runes
of an Old Monastery, and could not stir so silently, but some loose
Stones he met with made a rumbling. The Noise alarm'd both Parties; and
as it gave Comfort to the one, it so Terrified the t'other, that he could
not hinder the Oppressed from calling for help. Aurelian fancy'd it was
a Woman's Voice, and immediately drawing his Sword, demanded what was the
Matter; he was answered with the Appearance of a Man, who had opened a
Dark Lanthorn which he had by him, and came toward him with a Pistol in
his Hand ready cock'd.

Aurelian seeing the irresistable advantage his Adversary had over him,
would fain have retired; and, by the greatest Providence in the World,