_," shouted Lyaeus towards the upper window.
"A flock of goats was passing on the road below, and from somewhere
came the tremendous lilt of...."
"Heads!" cried Lyaeus throwing himself round an angle in the wall.
Telemachus looked up, his mind full of his mother Penelope's voice
saying reproachfully:
"You might have been murdered in that dark alley." A girl was leaning
from the window, shaken with laughter, taking aim with a bucket she
swung with both hands.
"Stop," cried Telemachus, "it's the other...."
As he spoke a column of cold water struck his head, knocked his breath
out, drenched him.
"Speaking of gestures...." whispered Lyaeus breathlessly from the
doorway where he was crouching, and the street was filled with
uncontrollable shrieking laughter.
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