ent to play
the first fiddle in this amusing duet, but can follow your lead very
well." "Remember, then, that our English is rather broken, and that we
communicate our meaning to one another in French, Spanish, scraps of
Hebrew, or Latin and Greek. I have not quite yet forgotten all I learned
at college, though I suppose I shall do so in another month." "You
remember your speech, at least--eh, Will?" "The first half; if it is
necessary to make a great sensation, I can come out with that."

Full of the new plan of diversion, the boys, for they were boys at
heart, although men in stature, set out to hunt a house; and were
successful in finding one that suited their notions. Very soon it was
furnished in Oriental style, and an inner room was fitted up with
various occult instruments, calculated to inspire the minds of the
vulgar with a wholesome dread. It was agreed that Barrington should make
very little change in his wardrobe, and merely dye his hair and
whiskers, and add a richer brown to his complexion, to give a more
travelled look, and, as he said, to hinder any of the Saratoga belles
from finding him out, if they came to have their fortunes told. But
Forsythe took infinite pains to alter his appearance, and was so
successful, that his friend assured him his own mother could not detect
his identity, and that Garrick himself, who could look any character and
any age he pleased, would have been jealous had he seen how successfully
he had hidden his youth and beauty. When all preparations were made, the
advertisement was written. It stated that "The Wandering Jew, having
reached New York in his peregrinations, would stay for the space of one
fortnight only, it being then indispensably necessary that his travels
should recommence, and highly probable that he might not revisit the
city for a century. Being now the sole depository of the mysterious
knowledge acquired in Egypt in ancient times, some scraps of which had
been picked up by the astrologers of the middle ages, and especially by
Merlin, Michael Scott, Cornelius Agrippa, and Friar Bacon, he was ready,
during the short period of his stay, to lift the veil which separates
the present from the future. Not being actuated in the slightest degree
by a lust for gain, the illustrious exile would not consent to gratify
mere idle curiosity, and to afford amusement to the gay and frivolous;
but where an earnest, inquiring mind was intent upon discovering the
hidden things of