Caposele

I beg of your grace not to forget me at the altar.

The Archbishop never lost the impression made upon him during that stay at Caposele.

on their return to the archiepiscopal residence the change in the secretary was the common talk of the place all his former gaieties seemed to have suddenly disappeared one day the superior of the seminary asked him whatever could have happened to him during his absence Then he too was told the wonderful story.

The poor secretary made no secret of the fact that he could never again be light-hearted as of old until he had made reparation to his injured wife.

As soon as the necessary arrangements could be made, he left for Rome to rejoin the woman whom he had treated so badly, and who thus recovered both her happiness and her husband through the instrumentality of St. Gerard.

Even in Rome, the story was spread far and wide, and at last a cardinal wrote to ask that the wonderful brother should be sent to the Eternal City.

But when this letter reached Caposele, alas, Girard was already dead.

End of chapter 16