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who is clearly the only creature for whom you have any affection. But the pain will stop soon and your headache will go. The secretary stared at the prisoner, his note-taking abandoned. Pilate raised his martyred eyes to the prisoner and saw how high the sun now stood above the hippodrome, how a ray had penetrated the arcade, had crept towards Yeshuas patched sandals and how the man moved sky sports news aside from the sunlight. The Procurator stood up and clasped his head in his hands. Horror came over his yellowish, clean-shaven face. With an effort of will he controlled his expression and sank

back into his chair. Meanwhile the prisoner continued talking, but the secretary had stopped writing, craning his neck like a goose in the effort not to miss a single word. There, it has gone, sky sports news 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 sky sports news 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 good and I sky sports news 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 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 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. He had to sky sports news 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 failed him. Then the sky sports news 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 bonds. The secretary picked sky sports news 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 physician? No, Procurator, I sky sports news 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 now flashed with their sky sports news 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 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 repeated Pilates gesture . sky sports news . . 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? No, no, was the sky sports news 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 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? enquired the unbound sky sports news 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 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 sky sports news 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 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 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 were a prophet? sky sports news 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 into Jerusalem through the sky sports news