As they climbed the road to Myra, they heard shouts and saw a group of citizens rushing down the hill in search of the bishop. It took Nicholas a moment to untangle the report they brought him. The local magistrate, a thoroughly corrupt man by the name of Eustathios, had accepted a bribe to sentence three innocent men to death. The victims were only moments away from execution. Nicholas rushed to the center of town, followed by the three generals. The crowd there made way for him when they saw him coming. The three men knelt on the ground with hands bound behind their backs. The executioner
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