There, before the door, was a slave boy so young that he was not
restrained from telling the whole story by fear of harming his
master. And he had followed his master to the market place.
Alypius recognized him, and whispered to the architect, who showed
the boy the hatchet and asked whose it was. "Ours," he answered
directly. And, being further questioned, he disclosed the whole
affair. Thus the guilt was shifted to that household and the
rabble, who had begun to triumph over Alypius, were shamed. And
so he went away home, this man who was to be the future steward of
thy Word and judge of so many causes in thy Church -- a wiser and
more experienced man.
CHAPTER X
16. I found him at Rome, and he was bound to me with the
strongest possible ties, and he went with me to Milan, in order
that he might not be separated from me, and also that he might
obtain some law practice, for which he had qualified with a view
to pleasing his parents more than himself. He had already sat
three times as assessor, showing an integrity that seemed strange
to many others, though he thought them strange who could prefer
gold to integrity.
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