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square. There appeared to be no way of ingress or egree except the one by which I had entered. I stopped and looked around in bewilderment; wondering what it could mean, as I had never before, in my former perignnations? around unclear, seen unclear this square. What struck me as most remarkable was, that there was but one way of going in our out, and that the hours by which it was surrounded did not open upon it. It was very large and barren of everything except stones and mortar. "Well," I thought, "I shall have to go back the way I came, I suppose. I see no other way." Yet I felt very reluctant to do so, while something seemed to say to me-"Don't go back." While thus hesitating as to my course, with one apparently? on my left saying, "Your only way is to return from whence you came;" and another on my right replying, "You are lost if you go back," I thought I looked up and saw an old man, led by a little girl, crossing to the east side of the square; and I said to myself, "There must be a way of exit in that direction, or they would not be going towards that point." So I resolved to follow and ascertain what they would do. Many steps had not been taken before i thought I could perceive a low and narrow opening in the wall. "Ah!" said I, this must be the way out." The opening seemed so narrow that I thought it would be impossible for the old man and myself to walk in