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He took from the seat of his chair, where he had placed it as he stood up, our despatch bag, opened it, and displayed its contents; the package of despatches, our credentials, and the diploma entitling us to change of horses, with the endorsement of each change-master from Centumcellae onwards. Pescennius examined these meditatively. "These papers," he said, "are in perfect order.
The more I ponder over them the more wonderful they seem; especially your involvement with Maternus; your encounter with Pescennius Niger; your presence in the Circus Maximus when Commodus: I mean Palus: drove his car over the axles of the stalled chariots and escaped between them out of the smash and wreckage; your involvement with the mutineers, and your safety in Rome all these months, even in the arena of the amphitheater.
That gives me till dark to set things going and till about two hours after sunrise to finish the job. Unless, indeed, messengers announcing the robbery of the real Sabinus Felix and Bruttius Asper happen to overtake Pescennius at Tegulata or between there and Marseilles. Even then he can hardly get on these lads' trail before dark.
Clodius Albinus, in Britain; Severus, in Pannonia; and Pescennius Niger, in Syria, at one and the same time claimed the place which the wretched Julianus had bought, and prepared themselves to maintain their rights against all who should impugn them.
"I inherited it, as I tell you, from my father," replied Caracalla. "Severus sometimes wore it. But wait. After the battle of Issos, in his triumph over Pescennius Niger I can see him now he wore it on his shoulder, and that was " "Two-and-twenty years ago," the philosopher put in; and Caracalla, turning to Melissa, asked her: "How old are you, child?" "Eighteen, my lord."
During the reign of Commodus, Pescennius Niger had been at the head of the legion that was employed in Upper Egypt in stopping the inroads of their troublesome neighbours, who already sometimes bore the name of Saracens. He was a hardy soldier, and strict in his discipline, while he shared the labours of the field and of the camp with the men under him.
"I inherited it, as I tell you, from my father," replied Caracalla. "Severus sometimes wore it. But wait. After the battle of Issos, in his triumph over Pescennius Niger I can see him now he wore it on his shoulder, and that was " "Two-and-twenty years ago," the philosopher put in; and Caracalla, turning to Melissa, asked her: "How old are you, child?" "Eighteen, my lord."
There was no mistaking that incredible expanse of face, seemingly as big as the body of an ordinary man, those bleary gray eyes under the shaggy eyebrows, their great baggy lower lids, the heavy cheeks and the vast sweep of russet beard. It was Pescennius Niger himself!
But he looked at it as a coin-collector would look at a Pescennius Niger, if the coins of that Emperor are as scarce as they used to be when I was collecting half-penny tokens and pine-tree shillings and battered bits of Roman brass with the head of Gallienus or some such old fellow on them. A beauty! he exclaimed, and the only specimen of the kind in this country, to the best of my belief.
She was amazed at all of it; at our crawl through the drain, at the loyalty of old Chryseros, at my involvement with Maternus, at my encounter with Pescennius Niger, at my involvement with the mutineers; but most of all, at my having been present in the great circus, an eyewitness of the most spectacular day of racing Commodus ever exhibited under his transparent pseudonym of Palus and his last day of public jockeying; and, equally, at Agathemer's device by which we survived the massacre.
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