“How did you do it?”
Kmita stated all briefly, concealed nothing. The officers looked at one another in amazement.
“A hero!” whispered the Prince of Hesse to Sadovski.
But Sadovski inclined to Count Veyhard. “Count Veyhard,” asked he, “how are we to take a fortress with such defenders? What do you think, will they surrender?”
“There are more of us in the fortress ready for such deeds,” said Kmita. “You know not the day nor the hour.”
“I too have more than one halter in the camp,” said Miller.
“We know that. But you will not take Yasna Gora while there is one man alive there.”
A moment of silence followed. Then Miller inquired,—
“Is your name Babinich?”
Pan Andrei thought that after what he had done, and in presence of death, the time had come in which he had no need to conceal his name. Let people forget the faults and transgressions bound up with it; let glory and devotion shine over them.