Chapter X. How he knew by the spirit that one brother had caused scandal to another, and foretold that the former would quit the Religion

39. Two brethren came once from Terra di Lavoro the elder of whom caused much scandal to the younger. He was, I say, not a companion but a tyrant. But the younger bore it all in silence for God's sake. Now when they had reached Assisi and the younger had gone in to S. Francis (for he was intimate with him) the Saint said among other things, "How has thy companion behaved toward thee on this journey?" "Oh, very well, dearest father," was the answer. "Beware, brother," replied the Saint, "of telling a lie from false humility: for I know how he has been behaving toward thee. But wait a little and thou shalt see." (The brother wondered very much how S. Francis could have known in the spirit what had been passing at such a distance.) Accordingly after a few days the brother who had scandalized his companion set at naught the Order, and was ex-pelled.

It is an undoubted token of perverseness and an evident proof of failing sense not to be of the same mind with a good companion when one is going on the same way with him.