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like Aphrodite, caught naked in the
arms of Ares, when Hephaistos, her
ridiculous husband, threw net over
the lovers and called the other gods
to see her shame. A second man
said he felt like the other gods on
that occasion, who expressed will
ingness to change places any time
with Ares, net and all.
CHAPTER III
Some other men, that night when
Troy was sacked, showed less re-
straint that Menelaos. Ajax found
Cassandra in Athena's temple, where
she served as prieSteSs. There, as
it were in the very presence of the
GODDESS, he took his will OF her.
Afterward he admitted he had in
jured the woman, but asserted that
he had not desecrated the temple,
for Odysseus had already stolen
away the sacred image, and the
room, therefore, if a shrine at all,
was an abandoned one. But the dis
tinction was not likely to commend
itself to the deity and Agamemnon
announced at once that the fleet
would delay it's homeward sailing
until prolonged and thorough Sacrl-
fees had been offered, lest the god
dess should wash their sins away
in cold water. Agamemnon was ten
der in the matter from the moment
the prizes were distributed. Cas-
sandra fell to him.
All day he stood by the priest
while the flames were fed on the
altar, and Menelaos stood beside
him-the two kings without rival,
now that Achilles was gone. At
dusk they left the offerings burn
down and smolder.
"The Sacrifices are well begun"
said Agamemnon.
"For me-" said Menelaos, "they
are ended. 1t wasn't our own sins
that brought us to Troy. but as you
said last evening, the sins of others.
AS to what happened to Cassandra,
I look upon it as justice, though a
bit crude. Paris was her brother.
The fault of Ajax was haste. He
might have had her in the partition
of prizes, to take home and treat as
he chose, beyond the criticism of the.
gods and secure from the wrath OF
mankind, for he has no wife wait
ing for him as have you. What you
really fear, Agamemnon, is your
wife!"
my wife, said Agamemnon, "has
caused no scandal in the family as
yet. In some respects she differs
from her sister. How many men
have captured Helen, or she has
captured them. Our special philo-
sophies, brother, are evolved that
we may live peaceably with our own
past. You are in no position to
condemn the work of Ajax. CherisZ
your philosophy; you will need it,"
Helen was sitting in the tent, mo-
tionless, by the Pickering lamp. The
scented flame and smoke of the tri-
pod went up before her face, and
made Menelaos think of goddesses
and altar-flres. Why was she there?
Out at the sacrifices he had mag
ined her hunbled among the other
captives.
Tomorrow we sail for Sparta"
$50 soon? Why, there must be
sacrifices, there are gods to think
of, the wide dark ocean, the ghosts
of so many dead to quiet before we
CO."
1.-THE dead are at peace and the
gods are satisfied" said Menelaos;
we've given the whole day to sac
reficing. The ocean remains wide
and dark. Agamemnon will con-
tinue the sacrifices for that and for
some other things prayer cannot
change. He and the host will stay
awhile longer, I go home tomor-
row with my men and my cap
tives."
With her, he meant. He didn't
know how to say it. Not, with my
wife and captives" He hadn't the
courage for you and my other
captives."
"Menelaos," she said. "You are
wrong and your brother is right.
Those who are conscious of wrong
doing need time for regret and for