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[Hickam <co...@sp...>]

E vaulted into the air, and soared away into the distance, on and on
through countless leagues of never-ending sky, until he came to the
verge of a wide-spreading ocean. Plunging into this as though it had
been the home in which he had always lived, he made his way by paths
with which he seemed familiar, until he reached the palace of the Dragon
Prince of the Sea, who received him with the utmost cordiality and gave
him an invitation to remain with him as his guest as long as he pleased.
For some time he entertained himself with the many marvellous sights
which are hidden away beneath the waters of the great ocean and which
have a life and imagery of their own, stranger and more mysterious
perhaps than those on which men are accustomed to look. But in time he
became restless and dissatisfied with himself. The unpleasant thought
crept slowly into his heart that in a moment of passion he had basely
deserted Sam-Chaong and had left him helpless in a strange and unknown
region; and worse still that he had been unfaithful to the trust which
the Goddess had committed to him. He became uncomfortably conscious,
too, that though he had fled to the depths of the ocean he could never
get beyond the reach of her power, and that whenever she wished to
imprison him in the mountain cavern where he had eaten out his heart for
five hundred years, she could do so with one imperious word of command.
In this mood of repentance for his past errors, he happened to cast his
eye upon a scroll which hung in one of the rooms of the palace. As he
read the story on it his heart smote him, an