Refuse.

You can read what follows at your leisure." Benedetto hurriedly replaced the letter, but as no one appeared, and everything around him seemed to be asleep, he took it out again and read on.

It ran thus: "Since your visits to the Vatican there has been much dissatisfaction with the Holy Father.

Among other things, he has withdrawn the Selva affair from the Congregation of the Index.

You can have no idea of the intrigues which are being set on foot against you, of the calumnies concerning you which are communicated even to your friends, and all with the object of compelling you to leave Rome and preventing you from seeing the Pontiff again.