So they yoked the horses, and the dame that kept the stores put
into the chariot food and wine and dainties, such as princes eat.
And Peisistratus took the reins, and Telemachus rode with him. And
all that day they journeyed; and when the land grew dark they came
to the city of Pherae [Footnote: Phe'-rae.], and there they rested;
and the next day, travelling again, came to Lacedaemon [Footnote:
La-ce-dae'-mon.], to the palace of King Menelaus.




CHAPTER IV

IN SPARTA


Now it chanced that Menelaus had made a great feast that day, for
his daughter, the child of the fair Helen, was married to the son
of Achilles, to whom she had been promised at Troy; and his son
had also taken a wife. And the two wayfarers stayed their chariot
at the door, and the steward spied them, and said to Menelaus:--

"Lo! here are two strangers who are like the children of kings.
Shall we keep them here, or send them to another?"

But Menelaus was wroth, and said: "Shall we, who have eaten so
often of the bread of hospitality, send these strangers to
another? Nay, unyoke their horses and bid them sit down to meat."
So the squires loosed the horses from the yoke, and fastened them
in the stall, and gave them grain to eat and led the men into the