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"I'm not wasting mine. The meeting at the Prefect's is not till five." "What did you say? You're joking, Chief! You surely don't intend to go to it." "Why not?" "Why not? Well, the warrant " "The warrant? A scrap of paper!" "A scrap of paper which will become a serious matter if you force the police to act. Your presence will be looked upon as a provocation " "And my absence as a confession.
"No, Monsieur," the Prefect's manner showed an eager desire to be quite frank, "I am confining my personal enquiries to only two persons; that is, to a certain Madame de Léra, to whom you will remember Mrs. Pargeter was about to pay a visit at the moment she disappeared, and to yourself."
Titianus, who was watching for him, he greeted as an old friend with heartfelt warmth, and with him and Antinous he stepped into the prefect's chariot, while Phlegon the secretary, Hermogenes his physician, and Mastor with the luggage, among which were their campbeds, were to follow in another vehicle.
Warrants with the name of the Representatives had been drawn up in the Prefect's private Cabinet. Blanks had been only left for the names of the Commissaries. These were filled in at the moment of leaving.
The nosegay which had been given to Arsinoe by Verus gave her much pleasure, for a girl is always pleased with beautiful flowers nay, they have something in common. As she and her father approached the prefect's house Arsinoe grew frightened, and her father could not conceal his vexation at being obliged to take her to the lady Julia in so modest a garb.
But by what prodigy did Mazeroux, his former accomplice, his ardent disciple, his devoted servant, by what prodigy did Mazeroux dare to act as he was doing? Perenna went up to him and pressed gently on the detective's outstretched arm. "Prefect's orders?" he asked. "Yes," muttered the sergeant, uncomfortably. "Orders to keep me here until he comes?" "Yes."
There had been a stampede of officials, scarcely any being at their posts, in such wise that he made his way to the Prefect's sanctum unannounced.
We shall have to discuss the subject of a temple to the new divinity. Move on you two!" An hour after Plutarch had quitted the prefect's house Julia's chariot was standing at the entrance of a lane, much too narrow to admit a vehicle with horses, and which ended in a little plot on which stood Euphorion's humble house.
Olympius had weapons ready in abundance, and the youths rapidly collected round the standards he had prepared, and rushed into the square before the Prefect's house to drive away the monks and to insist that Cynegius should return forthwith to Rome with the Emperor's edict.
As, during those four months, I obtained several very special privileges which required the prefect's signature, as foreigners were by no means common residents there, and as I had become so well known by sight to most of the police force of the town that they saluted me when I passed, and their dogs wagged their tails at me and begged for a caress, I imagined that I was properly introduced to the authorities, and that they could lay hands upon me at any moment when the necessity for so doing should become apparent.
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