the morning sunshine making it look golden arid
glorious, they gave a great shout.

"Long live King Cadmus," they cried, "in his
beautiful palace."

And the new king, with his five faithful follow-
ers at his heels, shouldering their pickaxes and
marching in a rank, (for they still had a soldierlike
sort of behavior, as their nature was,) ascended
the palace steps. Halting at the entrance, they
gazed through a long vista of lofty pillars, that
were ranged from end to end of a great hall. At
the farther extremity of this hall, approaching
slowly towards him, Cadmus beheld a female
figure, wonderfully beautiful, and adorned with
a royal robe, and a crown of diamonds over her
golden ringlets, and the richest necklace that
ever a queen wore. His heart thrilled with de-
light. He fancied it his long-lost sister Europa,
now grown to womanhood, coming to make him
happy, and to repay him with her sweet sisterly
affection, for all those weary wanderings in quest
of her since he left King Agenor's palace for
the tears that he had shed, on parting with
Phoenix, and Cilix, and Thasus for the heart-
breakings that had made the whole world seem
dismal to him over his dear mother's grave.

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