_ 227 _ the breakers and winds which beat against it. Only when she saw her young brother, Reis Delamishe, whom she had raised like a son, melt into tears and lamentations, did she approach him and say that she regretted their parting and that he seemed not to have the faith she professed. Only in that faith was there a way to preserve the fraternal relationship and the love between them. Reis Delamishe was so far affected by this that he told her he perceived the virtue which shone from her, and this he repeated several times. The Captain later permitted her to visit him, so that it might not ripen and give a tasty unripe fruit to the youth she had raised, which is the one he most liked. The Moors left, taking with them the Captain, together with other leading captains to see the Guazil in the fortress. There the Captain showed the Guazil the letter and Bifatima’s garments in confirmation of the truth and of the persistence with which he had sought this outcome, once appropriately instructed in the mysteries of our faith. The Captain ordered the baptism and had the windows sumptuously adorned, and also the streets through which they would pass together with wealthy people, with triumphal arches, most appropriate to the triumph of the faith which he himself practised with such pleasure.
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