"Well, perhaps it is time that you should travel.

Those who travel and see strange countries and peoples, grow liberal-minded, which you are not.

Be pleased to read this paper," and he laid a writing before him.
Benoni took it and read.

It was worded thus: "To Marcus, the son of Emilius, the captain, in the name of Caesar, greetings.

Hereby we command you, should you in your discretion think fit, to seize the person of Benoni, the Jewish merchant, a dweller in Tyre, and to convey him as a prisoner to Rome, there to answer charges which have been laid against him, with the particulars of which you are acquainted, which said particulars you will find awaiting you in Rome, of having conspired with certain other Jews, to overthrow the authority of Caesar in this his province of Judaea.
"(Signed) Gessius Florus, Procurator." Benoni having read sank back upon his couch, gasping, his white face livid with surprise and fear.