94 Golden Apples and Roses Red

While these things were happening, came
from Three Fountains the lay-brother who
brought Waldo his provisions. Crossing
the brook to set his budget on the boulder,
he saw the poor recluse lying in the lee of
the hut, and Dorothy leaning over him.
Wherefore he hastened across the wood-lawn,
but in an instant the fair woman vanished
before his eyes, and when he came to the
hut he saw that Waldo was dead. He car-
ried the basket of flowers and fruit to the
Priory, and told what he had seen; and the
Prior, marvelling greatly, came to the place
and gave the poor leper brother a blessed
burial. ;

Now at this time a wondrous strange
occurrence was the talk of Rome.

The year wherein Waldo died was that
seventh year in which the shrine of St.
Dorothea is opened in her church beyond
Tiber; and the day on which it is opened
fell a little while before the death of Waldo.

Behold, then, when on the vigil of that
feast the priests unlocked the shrine, the
place where aforetime the holy body of the
martyr had lainwas empty. Great was the dis-