and unable to remove her without raising my suspicions, he clandestinely carried her olf. I was quite distracted at the idea of her situation, and enraged to see myself again deceived under the mask of friendship.
For several weeks, I neither heard of the Cabal, nor of Don Pedro. His house was quite deserted, and his domestics, not knowing what was become of their master, ran away.
Meanwhile I continued studying the mystic papers of the Cabal, dived more and more into their system, but secretly watched by their Genius, I durst not provoke the most terrible vengeance of my brethren by unravelling their plans, and such attempt would even at this time cost me my life. Their influence will probably cease, some day, with their existence as a society, and not until then shall I be at liberty to gratify the public curiosity respecting their operations and secrets.
I went to visit my parents and relations at Alcantara, but all their efforts to keep me among them proved abortive, I became
