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Towards evening he passed through Greco, and quitting the high

road, went into the fields in search of some small house where he

might pass the night, as he did not wish to stop at an inn. He

found a better shelter than he anticipated; perceiving an opening

in a hedge which surrounded the yard of a dairy, he entered it

boldly. There was no one within: in one corner of it was a barn

full of hay, and against the door of it a ladder placed. After

looking around, Renzo ascended the ladder, settled himself for

the night, and slept profoundly until the break of day. When he

awoke, he descended the ladder very cautiously, and proceeded on

his way, taking the dome of the cathedral for his polar star. He

soon arrived before the walls of Milan near the eastern gate.

CHAPTER XXXIII.