proceeding out of the interior of the earth. This
cavity, you must know, was looked upon as a
sort of fountain of truth, which sometimes
gushed out in audible words; although, for the
most part, these words were such a riddle that
they might just as well have staid at the bottom
of the hole. But Cadmus was more fortunate
than many others who went to Delphi in search
of truth. By and by, the rushing noise began
to sound like articulate language. It repeated,
over and over again, the following sentence,
which, after all, was so like the vague whistle of
a blast of air, that Cadmus really did not quite
know whether it meant any thing or not: --

"Seek her no more! Seek her no more! Seek
her no more!"

What, then, shall I do?" asked Cadmus.

For, ever since he was a child, you know, it
had been the great object of his life to find his
sister. From the very hour that he left follow-
ing the butterfly in the meadow, near his father's
palace, he had done his best to follow Europa,
over land and sea. And now, if he must give
up the search, he seemed to have no more busi-
ness in the world.

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