Beneath, as before, lay the sleeping camp, yonder stretched the brown desert, and there sat Wulf watching both.
"Tell me," asked Godwin, "how long is it since I left you ?" "Some few minutes--ten perhaps," answered his brother.
"A short while to have seen so much," replied Godwin.

Then Wulf looked at him curiously and asked: "What have you seen ?" "If I told you, Wulf, you would not believe." "Tell me, and I will say." So Godwin told him all, and at the end asked him, "What think you ?" Wulf considered awhile, and answered: "Well, brother, you have touched no wine to-day, so you are not drunk, and you have done nothing foolish, so you are not mad.
Therefore it would seem that the saints have been talking to you, or, at least, so I should think of any other man whom I knew to be as good as you are.

Yet it is folk like you that see visions, and those visions are not always true, for sometimes, I believe, the devil is their showman.

Our watch is ended, for I hear the horses of the knights who come to relieve us.

Listen; this is my counsel.