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Then I took him up and carried him to the bazar and set him up

against the wall in such a place near such a lane;" adding, "Is

it not enough for me to have killed a Moslem without also killing

a Christian? So hang none other but me." When the Governor heard

these words he released the Broker and said to the torch bearer,

"Hang up this man on his own confession." So he loosed the cord

from the Nazarene's neck and threw it round that of the Reeve

and, making him stand under the gallows tree, was about to string

him up when behold, the Jewish physician pushed through the

people and shouted to the executioner, "Hold! Hold! It was I and

none else killed the Hunchback! Last night I was sitting at home

when a man and a woman knocked at the door carrying this Gobbo

who was sick, and gave my handmaid a quarter dinar, bidding her

hand me the fee and tell me to come down and see him.