ADVENTURE XIII. A RACE FOR A WIFE

Days and weeks passed by, and still Odysseus tarried as a guest at the court of King Tyndareus. His friend Iphitus had gone on to Tiryns to meet the hero Heracles, and had left with him his blessing and the bow of Eurytus. But the young princes who had come to Laced?mon to woo the beautiful Helen remained in the palace, and each had vowed in the se