E message and
I await a reply." "Take thou it," the first
guard said to the second one. "Take thou the message to his bed."
"Risk
thou thine own life," was the prompt reply. "Enter and awaken him,"
the first guard said to the messenger. "Time is passing," he replied
with dignity. "I await a reply." "Let us all waken him!" the
second guard suggested. So
they advanced to the curtains
that hung over Pilate's door and shouted together as they beat the
floor, "Awake! Arise, my Lord Pilate!" "Is the house falling?" The
voice was that of Pilate.
A moment later he stuck his head from between the curtains
shouting, "To the fires of Pluto with you! What meaneth this
disturbance?"
"A message for my Lord Pilate," the messenger replied, handing him a
tablet. "From the Tower of Antonio, a message." Claudia stepped behind
Pilate and looked over his shoulder. "What is it?" she asked. "The
hiding-place of a Jew
who hath not regard for the Law of Moses has been
discovered. This is a request for soldiers to go o
