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The combat became now more equal, and while my friend was engaged with the third cut-throat, I continued the conflict with the second with unspeakable fury. At last two others came from behind us, and we thought ourselves irreparably lost, when to our astonishment, the latter bid us be of good cheer, and engaged our enemies, who after some desperate passes, by which one of our deliverers fell wounded to the ground, took to their heels, and fled with the utmost precipitation. We let them fly unpursued, and pulling off the crape which covered the face of my slain antagonist, I discovered Jago! We flew to embrace our generous deliverers, who were drest in regimentals, and seemed to be the same described by the dutchess and her husband. We returned them a thousand thanks, but they made no answer. I laid hold of the corpse of Jago, and by their and my friend's assistance carried it to our house, which was not quite twenty or thirty yards from the place of combat. I eagerly identified him at the light of candles, and searching his pockets found nothing but a purse in them. The