Now there arose from the men and women gathered around the bridge great cries of consternation and confusion when the intruder was identified as a knight.  Thomas Knopf, intrigued by the woman's words and hearing his name called for, pushed through the gathering throng as he announced himself.  "Here I am," said he, discarding his duffel coat so that all could see his clerical collar.  "Make way for Father Thomas!" shouted others as they identified him, and soon he came to the front of the crowd, by which time the captain of the guard had collected the collapsed woman and made to carry her to safety.<br/><br/>Thomas tried but failed to recognize the unconscious woman; a look passing between he and the guard at this woman's strangeness to him.  The physician soon approached, Gaddiel Joseph, a Brooklyner by birth who had come to Corrinne Ellsworth's notice in the court of the king some years before.  In the beginning of his service there were some who questioned the wisdom of allowing a Brooklyner to care for the men who guarded an abridging border, but the doctor had soon won the bridgemen's trust and that of the Spanish Harlem townspeople.  With his short stature and stooped frame the man's head came nearly level with the knight's as he quickly examined her.<br/><br/>"Bring her inside," he declared, motioning for the captain to follow him as he returned to the guardhouse.  Thomas Knopf followed too, and noted with amazement that as the woman was carried inside the guardhouse, a starling landed at the apex of the roof with a flutter of its small wings.  Seeing that this was no common starling but in fact a mynah native to the Orient, Thomas knew the little bird to be an auspicious omen.  A studied<span style="font-style: italic">auspex</span>himself, Thomas made the sign of the cross and bowed his head to the mynah bird as he entered the guardhouse.<br/><br/>Inside the darkened room, the amulet against his chest grew warm to the touch as it recognized dead lighting units around it.  Gripping the amulet and making a gesture with his other hand Thomas lit the rooms, the bulbs eliciting a pale yellow light in response.  The captain of the guard and one of his men gave Father Thomas a bemused look but the physician was accustomed to working under the light of the Lord and quickly set about administering to the woman's health.<br/><br/>Thinking of the omen he had seen, Thomas Knopf wondered just who this knight was, and what need compelled her to see an Electrician despite the injuries that had drawn her so very close to death's grip.  Whoever she was, clearly the Lord had favored her with His sign.