THE SEA-KINGS OF CRETE 
the black ones which she 
had always borne in token 
of her melancholy mission. 
ARIADND SAVES THESEUS 
So at length the sor- 
rowful ship came to the 
harbor in the bay below 
broad Knossos, where Mi- 
nos reigned, and when the 
King had viewed his cap- 
tives they were cast into 
prison to await their dread- 
ful doom. But fair-haired 
Ariadne, the daughter of 
Minos, had marked The- 
seus as he stood before the 
King, and love to him had 
risen up in her heart, and 
pity at the thought of his 
fate ; and so by night she 
came to his dungeon, and 
when she could not per- 
suade him to save himself 
by flight, because that he 
had sworn to kill the Mino- 
taur and save his compan- 
ions, she gave him a clue 
of thread by which he 
might be able to retrace his 
way through all the dark 
and winding passages of 
the Labyrinth, and a sword 
wherewith to deal with the 
Minotaur when he encoun- 
tered him. 
So Theseus was led away 
by the guards and put into one oe The many magazines, with jars and kasellES 
the Labyrinth to meet his fqr the storage oe grain and oil, eound at knossos 
fate; and he went on, with «-r^ ,, , ,• r , • r rt 
,1 1 1 ■ ti ti Vi rl f JJown the center line of each magazine ran a row oi small 
tne cme wnicn ne naa las- square openings in the floor — 'kaselles' as they came to be 
tened to his arm unwmdmg called — which at one time had evidently been receptacles, some of 
itself as he passed through them perhaps for oil, but some of them certainly for valuables. 
passage after passage, until ^^^^y ^^""^ carefully lined with lead, and in some cases the slabs 
at Ipqt h t tVi A Af ] ° stone covering them could not be removed without lifting the 
at last ne met tne areauiul -y^rj-iole pavement. In spite of such precautions, however, they had 
monster; and there, m the been well rifled in ancient days, and little was left to tell of 
depths of the lyabyrinth, what their contents may once have been." The immense size of 
the Minotaur who had slain ^'^^^^ J^''^ ™^y '^^ appreciated by noting the boy standing in the 
' background. 
so many, was himself slain. 
Then Theseus and his companions es- 
caped, taking Ariadne with them, and 
fled to their black ship and set sail for 
Attica again ; and landing for awhile in 
the island of Naxos, Ariadne there be- 
came the hero's wife. But she never 
came to Athens with Theseus, but was 
either deserted by him in Naxos or, as 
