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And here , sitting down , we all agreed to accept this offer , Mr. Godwin being not less eager for the venture than we , who had so much more to dread by letting it slip , though his pass had yet a fortnight to run . So the next day I repaired to the rock , and meeting Haroun -LRB- as he was called -RRB- , I closed with him , and put a couple of ducats in his hand for earnest money . '' 'T is well , '' says he , pocketing the money , after kissing it and looking up to heaven with a `` Dill an , '' which means `` It is from God . '' `` We will not meet again till the day of Ramadah at midnight , lest we fall under suspicion . Farewell . '' We parted as we did before , he going his way , and I mine ; but , looking back by accident before I had gone a couple of hundred yards , I perceived a fellow stealing forth from a thicket of canes that stood in the marshy ground near the spot where I had lately stood with Haroun , and turning again presently , I perceived this man following in my steps . Then , fairly alarmed , I gradually hastened my pace -LRB- but not so quick neither as to seem to fly -RRB- , making for the town , where I hoped to escape pursuit in the labyrinth of little , crooked , winding alleys .