I guessed that this was the very ring which I had unfortunately found.

I addressed myself to the stranger, and promised to point out to him the person who had forced it from me.

The stranger recovered his ring, and, being convinced that I had acted honestly, he made me a present of two hundred sequins, as some amends for the punishment which I had unjustly suffered on his account.
"Now you would imagine that this purse of gold was advantageous to me.
Far the contrary; it was the cause of new misfortunes.
"One night, when I thought that the soldiers who were in the same tent with me were all fast asleep, I indulged myself in the pleasure of counting my treasure.

The next day I was invited by my companions to drink sherbet with them.

What they mixed with the sherbet which I drank I know not, but I could not resist the drowsiness it brought on.