Thinking it would be necessary to make Mr. Wild a handsome present, she put her hand in her pocket, and with great surprise found her green purse gone, in which was the remainder of fifty guineas she had borrowed of the merchant in the morning. Upon this she looked very much confused, but did not speak a word. Jonathan perceived it, asked if she was not well. _I am tolerably in health, sir_, answered she, _but I am amazed that the woman took but ten guineas for the book, and at the same time picked my pocket of thirty-nine._ Mr. Wild hereupon appeared in as great a confusion as the lady, and said he hoped she was not in earnest, but if it were so, begged her not to disturb herself, she should not lose one farthing. Upon which Jonathan begging her to sit still, stepped over to his own house and gave, as may be supposed, necessary directions, for in less than half an hour a little Jew (called Abraham) that Wild kept, bolted into the room, and told him the woman was taken, and on the point of going to the Compter. _You shall see, Madam_, said Jonathan, turning to the lady, _what exemplary punishment I'll make of this infamous woman._ Then turning himself to the Jew, _Abraham_, says he, _was the green purse of money taken on her? Yes sir_, replied his agent. _O la!_ then said the lady, _I'll take the purse with all my heart; I would not prosecute the poor wretch for the world. Would not you so, Madam_, replied Wild. _Well, then, we'll see what's to be done._ Upon which he first whispered his emissary, and then dispatched him. He was no sooner gone than Jonathan told the lady that she would be too late at the merchant's unless they took coach; which thereupon they did, and stopped over against the Compter gate by the Stocks Market.[63] She wondered at all this, but by the time they have been in a tavern a very little space, back comes Jonathan's emissary with the green purse and the gold in it. _She says, sir_, said the fellow to Wild _she has only broke a guinea of the money for garnish and wine, and here's all the rest of it. Very well_, says Jonathan, _give it to the lady. Will you please to tell it, madam?_ The lady accordingly did, and found there were forty-nine. _Bless me!_ says she. _I think the woman's bewitched, she has sent me ten guineas more than I should have had. No, Madam_, replied Wild, _she has sent you back again the ten guineas which she received for the book; I never suffer any such practices in my way. I obliged her, therefore, to give up the money she had taken as well as that she had stole. And therefore I hope, whatever you may think of her, that you will not have a worse opinion of your humble servant for this accident._