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Updated: June 7, 2025
You know I did not even know that Joseph was in this part of the country. And at ten o'clock last night they came carrying him in. Of course, I was terribly excited and upset, and I did not find out the particulars exactly." She paused and took a delicate little shuddering breath. "You see, Mr. Burrus' warehouse the one down by the creek, you know?
Once found, the rest was very simple, and at three o'clock Uncle Buzz slammed the ledger shut with an air of complete satisfaction, walked confidently through the door into the adjoining office with his little sheaf of papers, and returning reached for his hat. "Burrus is out," he said crisply. "We won't wait." Joe likewise reached for his hat.
Some few of the soldiers did not join in this cheering, but looked on in silence, and then inquired of one another what had become of Britannicus. But there were none to answer this question, and as no one appeared to proclaim Britannicus or to speak in his name, the whole cohort finally acquiesced in the decision to which the majority, at the instigation of Burrus, seemed inclined.
He dreaded the desperate spirit of resentment and revenge which he presumed had been aroused in his mother's mind. He forthwith sent for Burrus and Seneca, and revealed to them all the circumstances of the case. He made the most bitter accusations against his mother, in justification of his attempt to destroy her.
My mouth was shut up by the command I had received from the Queen our mother, so that I only answered his dissembled concern with sighs, like Burrus in the presence of Nero, when he was dying by the poison administered by the hands of that tyrant.
Learning from the letters of the Jewish Procurator that the prisoner had been guilty of no serious offence, but had used his privilege of Roman citizenship to appeal to Caesar for protection against the infuriated malice of his co-religionists possibly also having heard from the centurion Julius some remarkable facts about his behaviour and history Burrus allowed him, pending the hearing of his appeal, to live in his own hired apartments.
The realization that it was but two days shocked her. "Funny," he was saying. "That night you remember I met old Burrus coming out of your house. I wondered then what he could be doing. Well he was just on my trail. Fact." "Yes," she said. "He brought Aunt Susie a hot-water bottle. But you mustn't talk too much, Joe." She squeezed his hand very softly.
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