And I knelt before the fiend.
"'But thou must tarry for awhile,' he answered, 'for thine enemy's time will be long in coming; but it _will_ come.

I cannot work him immediate harm; but I will lead him to a height from which he will assuredly fall headlong.

Thou must depart from this place; for it is perilous to thee, and if thou stayest here, ill will befall thee.

I will send a rat to thy dungeon, which shall daily devour the provisions, so that the monks shall not know thou hast fled.

In thirty and one years shall the abbot's doom be accomplished.