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Mr Howel with the Writ in my hand, and told him that this
convinced me now that I was pretty right in what I had only
mentioned in Jest, for he had sued me for the whole money
and had included Mr Kilbys £1500. soon after a Gentleman
or two I do not remember which came into the Room as if by
chance, Mr Howel began to inform them of the steps he had
taken with me, tho I soon found from the conversation that
they were very well apprised of it before, they joined in
opinion with Mr Howel, and used many arguments to induce
me to comply with Mr Howels request and seemed to think
he did me a great favour if I was allowed to keep the £1500
that Mr Kilby had agreed to advance, I told them they were
Strangers to me and it could not be expected their arguments
could have much weight with me, and that Mr Howel had
used me very ungenteely in laying me under a restraint from
speaking on the subject to any body while it appeared to me
he had been all the time consulting with his Friends and with
Lawyers, who often preferred what was expedient and profit-
able, to what was Lawful and honourable, that we had that
afternoon I thought setled every thing before Mr peters, that
he had invited me home from his House with him and had
in the grossest manner violated the Laws of decency and
hospitality, that in the whole affair there seemed to be a
mystery I could not comprehend, and which Mr Howel was no
ways inclinable to unravel, in such conversation we past the
time till it began to grow late, when Mr Meredith whether by
chance or design opened the door and Stept into the Room,
and immediately Mr Howel addressed himself to me and said
he did not want to send me to jail, that If I would only leave
the Bills with friend Meredith 'til to morrow morning at ten of
the Clock, he should give me his note to deliver them again
to me at that time. I took a turn once or twice on the floor,
and then told Mr Howel that I had repeated over & over, that
the only favour I had requested of him from the first, was to
allow me time for an Express to return from the General or
Governor Sharpe, that if either of them directed me to return
the whole money I must comply, but that it was impossible
for me to do that before to morrow morning at 10 o'clock,
and if I must go to Jail then, the difference was not great for
me to go to night at eight, that I supposed his Lawyers had
put him on some new trick to distress me, that in time the
secret if there was any would come out, and requested of him
to call in the Sheriff for I was ready to go along with him :
which was accordingly done. After I got into the street as
my acquaintance was very slender in Philadelphia, I stood
some moments thinking to whom 1 should apply to prevent
me from going to the common Jail, and then asked the under-
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