They tried once more in a vineyard, under the open heavens at night.

But no demon issued from the darkness, and the hermit laid this second mischance to the score of bad weather.

Giacomo was incapable of holding his tongue.

He talked about his undertaking to the neighbors, and promised to make them all Cardinals when he should become the Papal nephew.

Meanwhile he pressed the hermit forward on the path of folly; and this man, driven to his wits' end for a device, said that they must find seven priests together, one of whom should be assassinated to enforce the spell.