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They knocked at the door, and there came down to them a black

slave girl who opened and, seeing a man bearing a babe, and a

woman with him, said to them, "What is the matter?" "We have a

little one with us," answered the Tailor's wife, "and we wish to

show him to the physician: so take this quarter dinar and give it

to thy master and let him come down and see my son who is sore

sick." The girl went up to tell her master, whereupon the

Tailor's wife walked into the vestibule and said to her husband,

"Leave the Hunchback here and let us fly for our lives." So the

Tailor carried the dead man to the top of the stairs and propped

him upright against the wall and ran away, he and his wife.