"For five years give me your heart.

Man!" he shouted, impatiently, "will you not answer ?" "I will consider," said Vergilius, calmly.
"Go!" said Herod, in a burst of ire.

Then, presently: "Now, now I will attend to the son of Doris." And Vergilius hastened away.
Within the hour, Antipater, son of Herod the Great, was dragged to that strong chamber in a remote end of the vast home of Herod whence were to come cries for mercy by night such as he had often heard from his own victims..