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need not bid me take courage, for at this moment I am no more afraid of you than a new-born child.
Cool.— Well, say on. Ogil.—Tell me then, since such is your ability, that you can fly a thousand miles in the twinkling of an eye, if your desire to do the oppressed justice, be as great as you pretend what's the reason you don't fly to the coffers of some rich Jew or Banker, where are thousands of gold and silver invisibly lift and invisibly return it to the coffers of the injured? And since your wife has sufficient fund, and more, why cannot you empty her purse invisibly, to make these people amends?
Cool.— Because I cannot.
Ogil.— If these things be rectified, you would be easy and happy; I don't at all credit that for whatever justice may be done to the people, yet the guilt of the base action always remains upon you.
Cool.— Now you think you have silenced me, and gained a noble victory but I will shew you your mistake immediately; for I cannot touch any gold or money by reason of these spirits that are stated guardians of justice and honesty.
Ogil.— What is that you tell me Cool? Do not unworthy fellows break house every night and yet you, that can put yourself into so many hundred different shapes in a moment cannot do it.
Cool.— It is true, Sir, against the living, men may find out some probable means of securing themselves: but if spirits departed were allowed, then no man would be secure; for, in that case every man I had a prejudice at would soon be beggared.
Ogil.— Might you not go to the mines of Mexico and Peru, where those sums would not be missed?
Cool.— No, Sir, for the same reason.
Ogil.— But, Cool, there is so much treasure lost in
