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The younger son gone, he turned to the elder and asked him, "what it
was that their grandfather had said to them?" Then he related in how
kind and friendly a fashion he had received them; but, not having
taken any notice of the speech which Procles had uttered at parting,
he quite forgot to mention it. Periander insisted that it was not
possible this should be all - their grandfather must have given them
some hint or other - and he went on pressing him, till at last the lad
remembered the parting speech and told it. Periander, after he had
turned the whole matter over in his thoughts, and felt unwilling to
give way at all, sent a messenger to the persons who had opened their
houses to his outcast son, and forbade them to harbour him. Then the
boy, when he was chased from one friend, sought refuge with another,
but was driven from shelter to shelter by the threats of his father,
who menaced all those that took him in, and commanded them to shut
their doors against him. Still, as fast as he was forced to leave one
house he went to another, and was received by the inmates; for his
acquaintance, although in no small alarm, yet gave him shelter, as he
was Periander's son.
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