he died of apoplexy."

She picked up a lamp from the table and Pertinax moved to follow her,
but Narcissus stepped in his way.

"Ave, Caesar!" he said, throwing up his right hand.

"You may go," said Pertinax. "Go in silence. Not a word to a soul in
the corridors. Leave Rome. Leave Italy. Take Sextus with you."

"You will let him go?" asked Marcia. "Pertinax, what will become of
you? Send to the guard at the gate and command them to seize him!
Sextus and Narcissus--"

"Have my promise!" he retorted. "If the fates intend me to be Caesar,
it shall not be said I slew the men who set me on the throne."

"You are Caesar," she answered. "How long will you last? All omens
favored you--the murder in the tunnel--now this storm, like a veil to
act behind, and--"

"And last night a falling star!" said Galen. "Give me parchment. I will
write the cause of death. Then let me go too, or else kill me. I am no
more use. This is the second time that I have failed to serve the world
by tutoring a Caesar. Commodus the hero, and now you the--"

"Silence!" Marcia commanded. "Or even Pertinax may rise above his
scruples! Write a death certificate at once, and go your way and follow
Sextus!"

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