[The Barons stand up and crowd about him.]
1st Baron.
St. George?
Ganelun.
What's that thou say'st?
Dinas.
Dost thou know more?
2d Knight.
I know but what old Kaad himself recounts;
That, as he led Mark's charger down to drink,
There suddenly appeared before his eyes
The lofty shape of good St. George, erect,
Upon the wall!
1st Baron (crossing himself).
God save my soul!
2d Baron.
And then?
What happened then?
2d Knight.
Kaad thought at first
He was some mortal man and cried to him
To heed; but in that selfsame moment leapt
The holy knight, and cleared the wall, and fell
The hundred fathoms. But when Kaad ran up,
With all the speed he might unto the spot,
St. George had vanished and had left no trace.
1st Baron.
No trace?
2d Baron.
'Tis strange!