promise not to betray him: and the devil was cast out. But the
captain would take no fare when he saw that they had nought but
those Gospels, and the clothes on their backs. And so Hilarion came
to Pachynum, a cape of Sicily, {117b} and fled twenty miles inland
into a deserted farm; and there every day gathered a bundle of
firewood, and put it on Zananas's back, who took it to the town, and
bought a little bread thereby.

But it happened, according to that which is written, "A city set on
an hill cannot be hid," one Scutarius was tormented by a devil in
the Basilica of St. Peter at Rome; and the unclean spirit cried out
in him, "A few days since Hilarion, the servant of Christ, landed in
Sicily, and no man knows him, and he thinks himself hid. I will go
and betray him." And forthwith he took ship with his slaves, and
came to Pachynum, and, by the leading of the devil, threw himself
down before the old man's hut, and was cured.

The frequency of his signs in Sicily drew to him sick people and
religious men in multitudes; and one of the chief men was cured of
dropsy the same day that he came, and offered Hilarion boundless
gifts: but he obeyed the Saviour's saying, "Freely ye have
received; freely give."

While this was happening in Sicily, Hesychius, his disciple, was
seeking the old man through the world, searching the shores,
penetrating the desert, and only certain that, wherever he was, he
could not long be hid. So, after three years were past, he heard at
Methone {118} from a Jew, who was selling old clothes, that a
prophet of the Christians had appeared in Sicily, working such
wonders that he was thought to be one of the old saints. But he