ne servant only, in whose secrecy he greatly confided, being
entrusted therewith; and this was his valet-de-chambre, who used to
dress, shave, and perform other such offices about his lordship's person.

Mr. Carew and his noble companion having thus parted from each other, he
took his way into the woodlands towards Frome; and the disguised lord, by
a private way through the park and gardens, returned to his own house,
and there, divesting himself of his rags, put on his embroidered apparel,
and re-assumed the dignity and state to which both his birth and fortune
entitled him. I am informed, said his lordship, that two sailors have
been at my house; and, inquiring which way they went, he ordered two men
and horses to go after them, with a strict charge to bring them back to
his house, for he had heard they were impostors; and, if he found them
such, he would treat them accordingly. The servants obeyed his commands
without the least suspicion of the intricacy of this affair, and soon
came up with Mr. Carew, whom they forcibly brought up to my lord. His
lordship accosted him in a very rough stern manner, asking where the
other fellow was, and told him he should be made to find him. Mr. Carew
in the mean time stood thunder-struck, expecting nothing less than a
commitment to prison, but, upon examination, made out his story as well
as he could.

After having thus terrified and threatened him for a considerable time,
his lordship went out, and, divesting himself of the habit and character
of a nobleman, again put on his rags, and was, by his trusty
valet-de-chambre, ushered into the room where his brother-beggar stood
sweating for fear, when they compared notes together, whispering to each
other what to say, in order that their accounts might agree when examined
apart, as in effect they were. The steward took Mr. Carew aside into a
private chamber, and there pretending that the other fellow's relation
contradicted his, and proved them both to be counterfeits, he said that a
prison must be the portion of both; and indeed nothing was omitted that
might strike Mr. Carew with the greatest terror and confusion. By this
time my lord having thrown off his rags, and put on his fine apparel, Mr.
Carew was again brought into his presence to receive his final sentence;
when his lordship, having sufficiently diverted himself with the fear and
consternation of his brother mumper discovered himself to him.

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