they remained to aid their afflicted prelate; relieving him
at times by easing him of the weight of the lunette, by placing their
hands on those of the tired old man, whose eyes were turned into two
fountains of tears when he reflected on the acts of desecration that
they were practicing on the Supreme Lord. The governor was so far
from mitigating his anger in what he had commenced, that, in place
of repenting and returning to himself, he took horse, although it
was the middle of the night, and went to the archiepiscopal house;
and, seated at the door, sent his orders to the executors of the
commission. The first order was for them to eject forcibly all the
priests who were with the archbishop, the adjutants striking the
soldiers with the flat of their swords and giving them heavy blows
because they did not execute their orders. Thereupon the religious,
seeing that the poor soldiers were forced to do what they did
not wish, allowed themselves to be seized and carried outside. The
soldiers humbly begged their pardon, protesting that they were under
orders. The governor's purpose was to wait until the archbishop,
destitute of all human consolation, should surrender on account
of his advanced age and his lack of nourishment, his watching and
continual annoyance, and should relinquish the most holy sacrament,
so that they could then seize him and make him enter the boat. That
report circulated among the orders, and accordingly they all came
in a body with lighted candles to attend to the recovery of the most
holy sacrament. But the governor had already seized the entrances of
the streets by means of soldiers, in order that they might not pass,
and they accordingly returned to their convents. The city and the
magistracy sent their commissaries to the archbishop, begging him to
avoid compromising himself, which was equivalent to telling him to
allow himself to be arrested and exiled. For, as these islands are
one body which has only one head, it is the latter which attracts
all wills to his own; for fear (which is very powerful here), or
self-interest, has more place here than anywhere else in the world.

The afflicted shepherd seeing that "this was his hour of darkness,"
and that the frightened sheep had abandoned him, ordered the interdict
to be raised--the grieving bells publishing the feeling that many
did not give vent to and others could not show, in order not to
incur the anger of the passionate governor. The governor