Appearances are deceiving!
On the second day the mail distribution once more failed. And
Cupid had not yet received his arrows!
Demo hurried to talk to the Postmaster.
"What has happened? Where is Mercury? The mail is once more piling up!"
"No problem. It'll all be delivered in time. As for Mercury, he was ruining the morale of our normal deliverers. I really couldn't tolerate that, so I placed him in another department. He is currently acting as our censor. Keeps his eye open for anything that might be controversial. Why, he just found a package of arrows! Never should have let them get into the system. Directed to a Mr. Cupid, on Zeus' staff. Might well have been an attempted assassination planned!"
"Arrow? Cupid?" Demo's eyes brightened. "Ah, where are they?
What did you do with them?"
"Turned them over to security. Right now they are rounding up this Cupid character. It'll go hard with him, I assure you!"
The arrest of Cupid created a furor on Olympus. Zeus was nonplused. Hera, horrified! Venus, however, was the practical mother. "Zeus, you must go his bail. I know it is high. Still, I am sure there are some celestial bailbondsmen who'll cover it for a fraction of the total amount."
Reluctantly Zeus provided the gold.
The problem still remained. Find the arrows!