Louis XVIII, perhaps less troubled than the worthy Martin believes, continues to question the seer and to make him detail the circumstances under which certain of his previsions have been realized. (The medical report informs of these curious coincidences.) Then, having listened to this story--"It is the same angel," he says, "who led the young Tobias to Ragès and who made him marry her." He takes the right hand of Martin, that which the angel has pressed, and adds: "Pray for me." "Surely, Sire, I and my family, as well as the curate of Gallardon, have always prayed that the affair should succeed." "How old is the curate of Gallardon? Has he been with you long?" "He is almost sixty; he is a worthy man; he has been with us about five or six years." "I commend myself to you, to him and to all your family." "Surely, Sire, it is much to be desired that you should remain; because if you should happen to depart or if some misfortune should come to you, we others would risk nothing also by going away, because there are also evil people in our country; they are not lacking." After having renewed all the recommendations which the archangel had charged him to transmit to the King, Martin wishes Louis XVIII good health and asks his permission to return "to the center of his family." "I have given orders to send you back there." "It has always been announced to me that no harm and no evil would happen to me." "Nor will anything happen to you; you will return there tomorrow; the minister is going to give you supper and a bedroom and papers to take you back." "But I would like it if I could return to Charenton to bid them good-by and to get a shirt which I left there." "Did it not trouble you to remain at Charenton? Did you get along well there?" "No trouble at all; and surely if I did not get along well there, I would not ask to go back." "Well, since you desire to go back there, the minister will see that you are sent there at my expense." On the next day, having said farewell to the physicians at Charenton, Martin was taken back to Chartres, where the prefect of Eure-et-Loir recommended him to observe the greatest discretion in regard to his adventure, then he returned to Gallardon. The curiosity seekers who had been worried by his absence questioned him: "When you have business," he replied to them, "do you not go and do it? Well, I have been to do mine." And he went back to working in the fields. M. Decazes and the King himself would doubtless have preferred that the affair should remain secret; but it was soon bruited about. Troubled by the extraordinary events which had occurred in France in the last two years, imaginations were eager for the supernatural. On the other hand, the most violent members of the Royalist party did not find it inopportune that a miraculous voice had come to recall to the sovereign his duties as "very Christian king."