As
thou hast done to me, so will I do to thee. Call on me in the hour of
need, and try if the Immortals can forget."
And when Jason looked up, she rose from off the earth, like a pillar of
tall white cloud, and floated away across the mountain peaks, toward
Olympus the holy hill.
Then a great fear fell on Jason; but after a while he grew light of
heart; and he blessed old Cheiron, and said: "Surely the Centaur is a
prophet, and guessed what would come to pass, when he bade me speak
harshly to no soul whom I might meet."
Then he went down toward Iolcos, and as he walked, he found that he had
lost one of his sandals in the flood.
And as he went through the streets, the people came out to look at him,
so tall and fair was he; but some of the elders whispered together; and
at last one of them stopped Jason, and called to him: "Fair lad, who are
you, and whence come you; and what is your errand in the town?"
"My name, good father, is Jason, and I come from Pelion up above; and my
errand is to Pelias your king; tell me then where his palace is."
But the old man started, and grew pale, and said, "Do you not know the
oracle, my son, that you go so boldly through the town, with but one
sandal on?"
"I am a stranger here, and know of no oracle; but what of my one sandal?
I lost the other in Anauros, while I was struggling with the flood.
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