I accompanied him to the east arcade where the red dawn was glowing beyond the arches.
"Good-bye!" he said.
"I can scarce believe that it is really you," I exclaimed. "Tomorrow I will be sure that I have dreamed all this."
He laughed and drawing his sword scratched a rude cross upon the concrete of one of the arches.
"If you are in doubt tomorrow," he said, "come and see if you dreamed this."
A moment later he was gone.