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He told of his first meeting with Cataline upon the Cælian; of his visit to Cicero; of his strange conversation with the cutler Volero; of his second encounter with the traitor in the field of Mars, not omitting the careless accident by which he revealed to him Volero’s recognition of the weapon.
"Ha! it is very clear," said Lentulus, "he first slew the slave with his own hand, and then would have compassed—nay! I should rather say, has compassed—Volero’s slaughter, who must some how or other have become privy to the deed. I must have these detained, and him arrested!
I tell you, I discovered, how he would yesternight have slain you by the gladiator’s sword; discovered how he now would slay you, by the perverted sword of Justice, as Medon’s, as Volero’s murderer; convicting you of his own crimes, as he hath many men before, by his suborned and perjured clients—his comrades on the Prætor’s chair!
"Methought you said, my Fuscus, that our Aurelius had some errand to perform in the Forum; how is this, is it a secret?" inquired Paullus, laughing. "No secret, by the Gods!" said Aurelius, "it is but to buy a pair of spurs in Volero’s shop, hard by Vesta’s shrine." "He will need them," cried Fuscus, "he will need them, I will swear, in the race." "Not to beat Nanthus," said Aurelius; "but oh!
"It will be well if it prove so," replied Paullus, feeling that he must say something, and fearful of committing himself by many words. "It will, and I think probably it may," answered Cicero. "But see, I was right; there shines the light from Volero’s shop, though all the other booths have been closed long ago, and the streets are already silent.
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