CHAPTER TEN
Three men waited for them sitting in a long fisherman's boat filled with nets and a stowed away sailing mast. Each of the three stood up and nodded as first the centurion, and then the tribune, leapt into the vessel and told them to shove away and begin the journey. Rough looking men, dressed in attire peasants would wear; unshaven and scowling. One of the men, the oldest of the lot, silently indicated to Decimus and Quintus Flavius to sit before stepping back to take up the tiller and steer the boat to one side of the opposite flowing stream and into smoother water. The remaining two took up oars and began rowing.
Decimus, sitting himself, observed the two men in front of him plying with the oars. Silently he watched as the men worked the oars laboriously, grunting and strai
