Its chief characters were Cyrus the Great, his jaunty, bosomed daughter Lygia, of whom Len had never previously heard, and a one-armed, Graco-mead adventurer named Xanthes.
Beyond the screen door people were talking. As he lifted his hand to knock he heard steps, so he withheld his hand until a big man in black broadcloth trousers and a stiff bosomed white shirt without collar opened the door.