And that's why he has gone over to the Jesuits again, utilising their hatred of his rival, and anticipating that they will be forced to support _him_ in order to defeat the other.

But I doubt it, they are too shrewd, they will hesitate to patronise a candidate who is already so compromised.

He, blunder-head, passionate and proud as he is, doubts nothing, and since you say that he is now at Frascati, I'm certain that he made all haste to shut himself up there with some grand strategical object in view, as soon as he heard of the Pope's illness." "Well, and the Pope himself, Leo XIII ?" asked Pierre.
This time Don Vigilio slightly hesitated, his eyes blinking.

Then he said: "Leo XIII?
He is a Jesuit, a Jesuit! Oh! I know it is said that he sides with the Dominicans, and this is in a measure true, for he fancies that he is animated with their spirit and he has brought St.Thomas into favour again, and has restored all the ecclesiastical teaching of doctrine.

But there is also the Jesuit, remember, who is one involuntarily and without knowing it, and of this category the present Pope will prove the most famous example.