As I was leaving it to join the monk, I was so unlucky as to meet Captain Alban, who reproached me bitterly for having led him to believe that my trunk had been left behind.

I contrived to appease his anger by telling him all my misfortunes, and I signed a paper in which I declared that I had no claim whatever upon him.

I then purchased a pair of shoes and an overcoat, and met Stephano, whom I informed of my decision to make a pilgrimage to Our Lady of Loretto.

I said I would await there for him, and that we would afterwards travel together as far as Rome.

He answered that he did not wish to go through Loretto, and that I would repent of my contempt for the grace of Saint-Francis.