"Finally my brethren be strong."--EPHESIANS VI. 10.
The younger men were still inclined to rebel. They felt that they were in great numbers and that they were strong: they believed--with that optimism of excited youth--that their will must prevail in the end. In their opinion the Csar had done nothing to atone for his crime against the praefect of Rome, or for his dastardly cringing before the power of his people.
But the older men, those who had mayhap more than once witnessed street rioting and the bloody reprisals that invariably followed open rebellion--they counselled prudence, an acceptance of what had come about, since the imperial decree had been fixed to the rostrum of the great Augustus, promising pardon for all delinquencies.
And--what would you?--but was not the praefect of
