"I reached the place whither I had been sent, gave the letter to Don

Fernando's brother, and was kindly received but not promptly

dismissed, for he desired me to wait, very much against my will, eight

days in some place where the duke his father was not likely to see me,

as his brother wrote that the money was to be sent without his

knowledge; all of which was a scheme of the treacherous Don

Fernando, for his brother had no want of money to enable him to

"The command was one that exposed me to the temptation of disobeying