Through caverns measureless to man,

Down to a sunless sea.”

“Speak louder, Gus.”

Mr. K.!

“O’er Tempé’s god-frequented streams

There broods a holy spell,

And still in Greece, the land of dreams,

Heroic memories dwell.”

“He’s talking to the fishes, Gus: he don’t hear.”

“He don’t want to hear: he suspects what we are after.”