As a Mentor, Daedalus gave Ariadne the ball of thread that allowed Theseus to get in and out of the Labyrinth alive. Imprisoned in his own maze as punishment for helping Theseus, Daedalus also invented the famous wax-and-feather w i n g s that allowed h i m and his son Icarus to escape. As a M e n t o r to Icarus, he advised his son not to fly too close to the sun. Icarus, who h a d grown u p in the pitch dark of the Labyrinth, was irresistibly attracted to the sun, ignored his father's advice, and fell to his death when the wax melted. T h e best advice is worthless if you don't take it. THE HERO'S CONSCIENCE Some Mentors perform a special function as a conscience for the hero. Characters like Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio or Walter Brennans Groot in Red River try to remind an errant hero of an important moral code. However, a hero may rebel against a nagging conscience
the ground, and the subsequent key recoveries came with increasing speed: nine and a half days, two days, and, finally, one day. But by then the French had been dealt two unpleasant blows—one military, one cryptographic. Ludendorff had again managed to conceal the time and place of a major assault. Fifteen of his divisions fell by surprise on seven. A gray flood of Germans inundated the French positions in the heights of the Chemra-des-Dames and surged forward irresistibly until it lapped the banks of the Marne only 30 miles from Paris, almost submerging the Allied cause. At the same time, Painvin suddenly saw, on June 1, the ADFGX messages complicated by the addition of a sixth letter, v. Probably the Germans expanded their checkerboard to 6 X 6. But why? For homophones to further blunt the frequency clues? Or to insert the ten digits? Painvin did not know. "In short," he said, "I had a moment of discouragement. The last two
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