"The Devil is in you that you guessed it! Yes, it really is Father Peter."
"Who brought him here?"
"I did, with my crooked leg, and my crushed hand."
"So then he has not been killed."
"You heard him sing."
"And you wish me to wall him in?"
"Not wholly. Leave a hole in the wall, about the size of the head of a small cask, so that he shall not suffocate."
"And who shall bring him food when we leave this country?"
"A raven of the Prophet Elias. Anything that is in the Bible is true: if it happened once that a raven brought bread to a hungry prophet, it can happen twice. Now to your work. You have begun this work, and you must finish it. Do it good-naturedly, my faithful friend, or else I'll shoot you in the head and then this one after you."
Master Mathias was all in a cold perspiration, and went to work.