Delirium succeeded; and when once more my senses and reason returned to me, I found by my side a holy priest, and from him, gradually, I learned all that till then was dare.

Ferrares had been found in the valley, weltering in his blood.

Borne to a neighbouring monastery, he lingered a few days, to confess the treachery he had practised on thee; to adopt, in his last hours, the Christian faith; and to attest his crime with his own signature.

He enjoined the monk, who had converted and confessed him, to place this proof of my innocence in my hands.

Behold it enclosed within.