Came to our ears distant shoutings and cries of some street crowd, and we knew the soldiers were keeping the streets cleared.
"And you believe this wonder, Lodbrog ?" Pilate demanded.

"You believe that in the flash of an eye the festering sores departed from the lepers ?" "I saw them healed," I replied.

"I followed them to make certain.

There was no leprosy in them." "But did you see them sore ?--before the healing ?" Pilate insisted.
I shook my head.
"I was only told so," I admitted.

"When I saw them afterward, they had all the seeming of men who had once been lepers.