Transcription: I only hope I did not mistake his intention, thought Theseus. Still, what earthly purpose could bending the tree serve besides the evil use I made of it? And the man in the trees did say, beware the thankful man. Thanks of a sort poured out of sin as ceaselessly. As he turned the adventure over in his mind, a deer came bounding into the clearing. Theseus dropped to his knee, put arrow to bow and slew grateful that he had escaped destruction and hoping to prevent the shade of sin from troubling him he built a fire and made sacrifice to Hermes who protects travelers and guides dead souls to the ...