CHAPTER XXVThe day passed with no great event, except that a few died, which must have been of some moment to them, but was less in the neat records entered up by Sir Oliver’s scribes.
Piali’s battery fired at times, but those which Dragut was building on other sites were silent, their teeth being less than grown. There was a gentle steady breeze from the south-west, moving the smoke of the Turkish battery sluggishly toward St. Elmo, where it piled up against that which overhung there, and thence drifted in slow streamers over the sea. Sullen and seldom, St. Elmo’s guns boomed reply, and the black smoke thickened over the walls.
During the day the Turks observed that there was a crowding of pennons upon those walls, for the fifty knights who had come in the darker hours must erect their
