Judge, sirs, whether we had reason for surprise and joy at the words of this paper; and both one and the other were so great, that the renegade perceived that the paper had not been found by chance, but had been in reality addressed to some one of us, and he begged us, if what he suspected were the truth, to trust him and tell him all, for he would risk his life for our freedom; and so saying he took out from his breast a metal crucifix, and with many tears swore by the God the image represented, in whom, sinful and wicked as he was, he truly and faithfully believed, to be loyal to us and keep secret whatever we chose to reveal to him; for he thought and almost foresaw that by means of her who had written that paper, he and all of us would obtain our liberty, and he himself obtain the object he so much desired, his restoration to the bosom of the Holy Mother Church, from which by his own sin and ignorance he was now severed like a corrupt limb.
Y así, lo uno y lo otro fue de manera que el renegado entendió que no acaso se había hallado aquel papel, sino que realmente a alguno de nosotros se había escrito; y así, nos rogó que si era verdad lo que sospechaba, que nos fiásemos dél y se lo dijésemos, que él aventuraría su vida por nuestra libertad. Y, diciendo esto, sacó del pecho un crucifijo de metal, y con muchas lágrimas juró por el Dios que aquella imagen representaba, en quien él, aunque pecador y malo, bien y fielmente creía, de guardarnos lealtad y secreto en todo cuanto quisiésemos descubrirle, porque le parecía, y casi adevinaba que, por medio de aquella que aquel papel había escrito, había él y todos nosotros de tener libertad, y verse él en lo que tanto deseaba, que era reducirse al gremio de la Santa Iglesia, su madre, de quien como miembro podrido estaba dividido y apartado por su ignorancia y pecado.