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Trying not to miss a word, the secretary quickly scribbled everything down on the parchment.






" There is not, never has been, and never will be any greater and finer power on earth than the power of the Emperor Tiberius! " Pilate's broken and ailing voice swelled forth.

For some reason the procurator looked at the secretary and the escort with hatred.


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" And it is not for you, insane criminal, to debate it! " Pilate then began shouting, " Remove the escort from the balcony! " And turning to the secretary, he added, " Leave me alone with the criminal, this is a matter of state."

The escort raised their spears and, clacking their heavily soled cali-gas in unison, marched off the balcony into the garden. The secretary went out after them.

For a short while the only thing that disturbed the silence on the balcony was the song of the water in the fountain. Pilate saw the plate of water swell up over the small pipe, break off at the edges, and fall down in rivulets.

The prisoner was the first to speak, " I see that a calamity has occurred because I talked to the young man from Kerioth. I have a premonition, Hegemon, that misfortune will befall him, and I feel very sorry for him."

" I think, " replied the procurator with a strange laugh, " there is someone else in the world you ought to feel sorrier for than Judas of Kerioth, someone whose fate will be far worse than Judas's! And so, Mark Ratkiller, a cold and confirmed executioner, the people, who as I can see, " the procurator pointed to Yeshua's disfigured face, " beat you for your preaching, the outlaws Dismas and Gestas, who, along with their gang, killed four soldiers, the filthy traitor Judas—are they all good people? "

" Yes, " answered the prisoner.

" And the kingdom of truth will come? "

" It will, Hegemon, " replied Yeshua with conviction.

" It will never cornel" Pilate shouted in such a terrible voice that Yeshua recoiled. Many years before, in the Valley of the Maidens Pilate had shouted to his cavalrymen in the same voice, " Cut them down! Cut them down! They've got the giant Ratkiller! " He raised his voice-cracked from giving commands-even higher, shouting out the words so they would be heard in the garden: " Criminal! Criminal! Criminal! "

And then, his voice lowered, he asked, " Yeshua Ha-Notsri, do you believe in any gods? "

" There is one God, " replied Yeshua. " I believe in Him."

" Then pray to him! Pray as hard as you can! But, " here Pilate's voice dropped, " it won't help. Have you no wife? " asked Pilate, sounding somehow depressed, not comprehending what was happening to him.

" No, I'm alone."

" Hateful city..." Pilate muttered suddenly, his shoulders hunched as if he were chilled, and he wiped his hands as if he were washing them. " You would have been better off, really, if they had cut your throat before you met Judas of Kerioth."

" Couldn't you let me go, Hegemon? " asked the prisoner suddenly, and his voice became anxious. " I can see that they want to kill me."







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