Theseus and the Minotaur Part 2

Then she loved him all the more, and said: "But when you have killed him, how will you find your way out of the labyrinth?" He said: "I know not, neither do I care; but it must be a strange road, if I do not find it out before I have eaten up the monster's carcass."
Then she loved him all the more, and said: "Fair youth, you are too bold; but I can help you, weak as I am. I will give you a sword, and with that you may slay the beast; and a clue of thread, and by that, you may find your way out again. Only promise me that if you escape safe you will take me with you to Greece; for my father will kill me, if he knows what I have done."
When the evening came, the guards led him to the labyrinth. he went in and fastened his clue to a stone, and left it to unroll out of his hand as he went on; and it lasted until he met the beast. When he saw it he stopped awhile, for he had never seen something like that. His body was a man's; but his head was the head of a bull, and his teeth were the teeth of a lion.
When the beast saw him it roared and put his head down and rushed right at him. Theseus stepped aside and wounded the beast with the sword. The monster fled wildly and Theseus followed him at full speed, holding the clue of thread in his left hand. At last, he caught the beast by the horns and drove the sword through his throat. Then he went his way down by the clue of thread and when he reached the end of the thread, he saw Ariadne waiting for him.
She led him to the prison's door and opened it up, and set all the prisoners free, while the guards lay sleeping heavily; for she had silenced them with wine. Then they fled to their ship together; and the night lay dark around them, so that they passed through Minos' ships and escaped all safe to Naxos; and there Ariadne became Theseus' wife.
But Ariadne never came to Athens with her husband.     Theseus forgot to put up the white sail.
Aegeus his father sat and watched on day after day, and when he saw the black sail, and not the white one, he gave up Theseus for dead, and in his grief he fell into the sea, and died; so it is called the Aegean to this day. And now Theseus as king of Athens, he guarded and ruled it well.