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has gone, said the prisoner, with a kindly glance at Pilate. I am so glad. I would advise you, hegemon, to leave the palace for a while and take a walk somewhere nearby, perhaps in the gardens or on Mount Eleona. There will be thunder . . . The prisoner turned and squinted into the sun . . . later, towards evening. A walk would do you a great deal of again it phoenix play sports good and I should be happy to go with you. Some new thoughts have just come into my head which you might, I think, find interesting and I should like to discuss them with you, the again it phoenix play sports more so as you strike me as a man of great intelligence. The secretary turned mortally pale and dropped his scroll to the ground. Your trouble is, went on the again it phoenix play sports unstoppable prisoner, that your mind is too closed and you have finally lost your faith in human beings. You must admit that no one ought to lavish all their devotion on a dog. Your life is a cramped one, hegemon. Here the speaker allowed himself to smile. The only thought in the secretarys mind now was whether he could believe his ears. again it phoenix play sports He had to believe them. He then tried to guess in what strange form the Procurators fiery temper might break out at the prisoners unheard-of insolence. Although he knew the Procurator well the secretarys imagination again it phoenix play sports failed him. Then the hoarse, broken voice of the Procurator barked out in Latin: Untie his hands. One of the legionary escorts tapped the ground with his lance, gave it to his neighbour, approached and removed the prisoners again it phoenix play sports bonds. The secretary picked up his scroll, decided to take no more notes for a while and to be astonished at nothing he might hear. Tell me, said Pilate softly in Latin, are you a great again it phoenix play sports physician? No, Procurator, I am no physician, replied the prisoner, gratefully rubbing his twisted, swollen, purpling wrist. Staring from beneath his eyelids, Pilates eyes bored into the prisoner and those eyes were no longer dull. They again it phoenix play sports now flashed with their familiar sparkle. I did not ask you, said Pilate. Do you know Latin too? Yes, I do, replied the prisoner. The colour flowed back into Pilates yellowed cheeks and he again it phoenix play sports asked in Latin: How did you know that I wanted to call my dog? Quite simple, the prisoner answered in Latin. You moved your hand through the air . . . the prisoner again it phoenix play sports repeated Pilates gesture . . . as though to stroke something and your lips . . . Yes, said Pilate. There was silence. Then Pilate put a question in Greek : So you are a physician? again it phoenix play sports No, no, was the prisoners eager reply. Believe me I am not. Very well, if you wish to keep it a secret, do so. It has no direct bearing on the case. So you maintain that again it phoenix play sports you never incited people to tear down ... or burn, or by any means destroy the temple? I repeat, hegemon, that I have never tried to persuade anyone to attempt any such thing. Do I look weak in the head? Oh no, you do not, replied the Procurator quietly, and smiled an ominous smile. Very well, swear that it is not so. What would you have me swear by? again it phoenix play sports enquired the unbound prisoner with great urgency. Well, by your life, replied the Procurator. It is high time to swear by it because you should know that it is hanging by a thread. You do again it phoenix play sports not believe, do you, hegemon, that it is you who have strung it up? asked the prisoner. If you do you are mistaken. Pilate shuddered and answered through clenched teeth : I can cut that thread. You are mistaken there too, objected the prisoner, beaming and shading himself from the sun with his hand. You must agree, I think, that the thread can only be cut by the one again it phoenix play sports who has suspended it? Yes, yes, said Pilate, smiling. I now have no doubt that the idle gapers of Jerusalem have been pursuing you. I do not know who strung up your tongue, but he again it phoenix play sports strung it well. By the way. tell me, is it true that you entered Jerusalem by the Susim Gate mounted on a donkey, accompanied by a rabble who greeted you as though you again it phoenix play sports were a prophet? Here the Procurator pointed to a scroll of parchment. The prisoner stared dubiously at the Procurator. I have no donkey, hegemon, he said. I certainly came again it phoenix play sports into Jerusalem through the Susim Gate, but I came on foot alone except for Matthew the Levite and nobody shouted a word to me as no one in Jerusalem knew

me then. Do you happen to know, went on Pilate without taking his eyes off the prisoner, anyone called Dismas? Or Hestas? Or a third--Bar-Abba? I do not know these good men, replied the prisoner. again it phoenix play sports Is that the truth? It is. And now tell me why you always use that expression good men ? Is that what you call everybody? Yes, everybody, answered the prisoner. There are no evil again it phoenix play sports people on earth. That is news to me, said Pilate with a laugh. But perhaps I am too ignorant of life. You need take no further notes, he said to the secretary, although the man had taken again it phoenix play sports