In the devil's name, what are you doing here ?" "The devil himself, who put it into my head to come, only knows," replied Blaize; "but I followed Leonard Holt." "Which way did he take ?" asked the person who had assailed him.
"I cannot exactly say," replied Blaize, "but he seemed to go straight into the fields." "He is no doubt gone to the plague-pit," replied the other.

"You are now at liberty," he added to Blaize, "and I counsel you to make the best of your way home.

Say nothing to your master of what has occurred.

The city walls lie in that direction." Overjoyed to be released, Blaize ran off as fast as his legs could carry him, and never stopped till he reached Moorgate.

Meanwhile, Leonard had reached the place of meeting.