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crawling on his knees, he stumbled towards the gallows in alternate spells
of complete darkness and flashes of light. When he reached the gallows he
was already ankle-deep in water and threw off his soaking tallith. Wearing
only his shirt Matthew fell at Yeshua's feet. He cut the ropes round his
knees, climbed on to the lower crossbar, embraced Yeshua and freed his arms
from their bonds. Yeshua's wet, naked body collapsed on to Matthew and
dragged him to the ground. The Levite was just about to hoist him on to his
shoulders when another thought stopped him. He left the body on the watery
ground, its head thrown back and arms outstretched, and ran, slithering, to
the other gibbet-posts. He cut their ropes and the two bodies fell to the
ground.
A few minutes later only those two water-lashed bodies and three empty
gibbets remained on Mount Golgotha. Matthew the Levite and Yeshua were gone.
On Friday morning, the day after the disastrous show, the permanent
staff of the Variety Theatre--Vassily Stepanovich Lastochkin the accountant,
two bookkeepers, three typists, the two cashiers, the ushers, the
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