Enrique sat down on some stones to weep over his sorrow, and there prayed to heaven for his sister's life. A kid which was grazing near the spot heard the sound of his lamentations and drawing near the disconsolate boy said:
"Calm yourself and I will try and save Luisa."
"How?" asked Enrique, startled at hearing the kid speak.
"You have the remedy within reach of your hand. Look there, to the right in that spring, and you will see a ring which was left there and forgotten by the magician Agrajes. Put it on and ask to go to the Garden of Health, and immediately it will take you there. Ask there for the Blue Ivy whose juice will cure your sister, and if they deny it to you, use the ring and you will see."
"Ay, little kid, anything to please you. Will you tell me who you are?"
"Well, you can see: a kid with its horns and all."
"But kids don't speak, and you do."
"That is because I am a well-bred and compassionate kid. Anyway, I cannot tell you who I am. If you are grateful you will know. Meanwhile, don't lose time, and do what I tell you."
Enrique saw, indeed, a gold ring which was on the edge of the spring: he seized it and on it saw certain mysterious signs engraved.
He put it on the ring finger of his left hand and said in a loud voice: "To the Garden of Health."