Reading Notes: An Incident in Rome

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-Story takes place in Rome, Italy
-A wagon was carrying a ton of stones but got stuck for a while
-They eventually got the wagon back, but there was a hole in the ground
-They wanted to send someone down into the hole, and Master Francis volunteered
-Master Francis found a door and a dark room
-He found another dark room
-Then he came across a man sitting at a table, with a pen, ink, and paper
-Master Francis didn't know who he was
-The man wrote his name on back of Master Francis
-The man ordered Master Francis to have the Pope and only the Pope read the name
-He returned up from the hole and had aged
-Turns out, the mysterious man was Pilate who had been condemned to be stuck in the cave without being saved or damned

Bibliography: "An Incident in Rome" by Thomas Frederick Crane; link to the reading online