t was, indeed, likely enough; and the kind Quaker, without
telling me anything of the matter, caused her man to place himself just
at the corner of Whitechapel Church wall every Saturday in the
afternoon, that being the day when the citizens chiefly ride abroad to
take the air, and there to watch all the afternoon and look for him.

It was not till the fifth Saturday that her man came, with a great deal
of joy, and gave her an account that he had found out the gentleman;
that he was a Dutchman, but a French merchant; that he came from Rouen,
and his name was ----, and that he lodged at Mr. ----'s, on Laurence
Pountney's Hill. I was surprised, you may be sure, when she came and
told me one evening all the particulars, except that of having set her
man to watch. "I have found out thy Dutch friend," says she, "and can
tell thee how to find him too." I coloured again as red as fire. "Then
thou hast dealt with the evil one, friend," said I very gravely. "No,
no," says she, "I have no familiar; but I tell thee I have found him for
thee, and his name is So-and-so, and he lives as above recited."

I was surprised again at this, not being able to imagine how she should
come to know all this. However, to put me out of pain, she told me what
she had done. "Well," said I, "thou art very kind, but this is not
worth thy pains; for now I know it, 'tis only to satisfy my curiosity;
for I shall not send to him upon any account." "Be that as thou wilt,"
says she. "Besides," added she, "thou art in the right to say so to me,
for why should I be trusted with it? Though, if I were, I assure thee I
should not betray thee." "That's very kind," said I, "and I believe
thee; and assure thyself, if I do send to him, thou shalt know it, and
be trusted with it too."

During this interval of five weeks I suffered a hundred thousand
perplexities of mind. I was thoroughly convinced I was right as to the
person, that it was the man. I knew him so well, and saw him so plain, I
could not be deceived. I drove out again in the coach (on pretence of
air) almost every day in hopes of seeing him again, but was never so
lucky as to see him; and now I had made the discovery I was as far to
seek what measures to take as I was before.

To send to him, or speak to him first if I should see him, so as to be
known to him, that I resolved not to do, if I died for it. To watch him
about his lodging, that was as much below my spirit as the other. So
that, in a word,