Because of that sense of the stars, I tell you these things." The next day it came to me that in that Journal which he meant to make like Caesar's Commentaries, he might put down the change in the _Santa Maria's_ physicians and set my name there too often.

I watched my chance and finding it, asked that he name me not in that book.

His gray eyes rested upon me; he demanded the reason for that.

I said that in Spain I was in danger, and that Juan Lepe was not my name.

More than that I did not wish to say, and perchance it were wiser for him not to know.