time of my recruiting business, which will clear up all the above related events, and dispel the clouds which are still hanging over some parts of my wonderful tale.
Two years were now elapsed since my last adventure, and I had heard nothing farther either of the Necromancer or his associates: The frequent unwelcome visits at the Castle and their alarming consequences, very likely had made both parties more circumspect, which appeared to me to have been the principal motive of those ruffians to release my servant, least I might be induced to make a strict search after him; whatever may have been their motive for doing so, I had no farther trace either of the robbers or Volkert, and even at F———, the Necromancer's principal place of action, whither I went shortly after, even there, every thing relating to our former adventures was entirely forgotten—the haunted inn had been sold to a new master, the apparition was frightened away, and the house was a respectable auberge.
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