(for he was a very passionate king,) and he looked
so terribly angry that the poor boys did not even
venture to ask for their suppers, but slunk away
out of the palace, and only paused on the steps
a moment to consult whither they should go first.
While they were standing there, all in dismay,
their mother, Queen Telephassa, (who happened
not to be by when they told the story to the
king,) came hurrying after them, and said that
she too would go in quest of her daughter.

"O, no, mother!" cried the boys. "The night
is dark, and there is no knowing what troubles
and perils we may meet with."

"Alas! my dear children," answered pool
Queen Telephassa, weeping bitterly, "that is
only another reason why I should go with you.
If I should lose you, too, as well as my little
Europa, what would become of me!"

"And let me go likewise!" said their playfel-
low Thasus, who came running to join them.

Thasus was the son of a seafaring person in
the neighborhood; he had been brought up with
the young princes, and was their intimate friend,
and loved Europa very much; so they consented
that he should accompany them. The whob

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