So they went with him, though it was clear that the road must
have made a bend, for they found they would soon turn their backs
on The Celestial City.

Ere long, Christian and Hopeful were both caught in a net, and
knew not what to do; and with that the white robe fell off the
black man's back.

Then they saw where they were. So there they sat down and wept.

Christian.--Did not one of the four men who kept guard on their
sheep tell us to take heed lest Flatterer should spread a net for
out feet?

Hopeful.--Those men, too, gave us a note of the way, but we have
not read it, and so have not kept in the right path. Thus they
lay in the net to weep and wail.

At last they saw a Bright One come up to them with a whip of fine
cord in his hand, who said: What do you here? Whence come you?

They told him that their wish was to go to Zion, but that they
had been led out of the way by a black man with a white cloak on,
who, as he was bound for the same place, said he would show them
the road.

Then said he: It is Flatterer, a false man, who has put on the
garb of a Bright One for a time.

So he rent the net and let the men out. Then he bade them come