They passed across the bridge over my head.

I will take my oath that it was he.

He stood still in the middle of the bridge.
Shortly afterwards I heard the sound of many more footsteps coming, some from the left and some from the right.

Men were coming in all directions towards the bridge, and there in the middle of it they stood; I counted them--there were four and twenty of them." Szilard now began to listen attentively.
"Then he spoke.

Oh, even if I had had the light of both my eyes, I could not have seen him so plainly before me as I saw him in my blindness when I heard him speak.