Ulysses ran his eyes over the enclosed newspaper clipping containing the last verses of the poet.

The stanzas were in Castilian.

A bad sign!...

After that there could be no doubt that his end must be very near.
Ferragut never again had an opportunity to see his god-father, who died while he was on one of his trips.

Upon disembarking at Barcelona, Dona Cristina handed him a letter written by the poet almost in his death-agony.