The Bronze Sword by Henry Treece

Author:Henry Treece
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780330254458
Published: 1965-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

what it was like to lie on his own cold tiles. It was almost as bad as the time when he had tried sleeping in the snow-capped Pennines alongside a young Tribune of the Ninth called Petillius Aggravinus. He was a thin-faced youth with long, oiled hair, and a small mole on his right cheek. He had whimpered in his sheepskin bag as the wolves howled along the snowline; but when the time came, outside Eburacum, this Tribune led the charge and overturned three chariots before he ended. Drucus thought of him now as he lay in the dairy and, among the scents of pressed cheeses and butter, came to the conclusion that you couldn’t judge a man by his long hair or his beauty spots.

Outside, owls called from the trees and the many small beasts of the fields cried out in warning as the white-winged hunters drifted. Drucus thought: there they are, trying to keep their precious little lives, under the hoverer. And here I am, already cold as death, waiting for the Queen’s justice. I who was once the Elephant of the Regiment! Shivering in my own dairy! Why, when I marched across the Square at Lindum, new recruits from Germany and Egypt shook with palsy—and here I am, shaking myself, because the woman who leads these savages has threatened me. I will go to sleep and forget it all! I will not shiver like a frightened dog!

But he did not go to sleep. He stayed very wide awake, until dawn came down under the door and on to the cold floor. And when this happened, he heard a

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