y had been so
happy, but she would not have been so glad if she had known what the
bull was going to do.

Now, the next day while Europa was on its back, the bull began to trot
quickly away, but Kadmos thought he was only trotting away for fun.
So he ran after him, and cried out to make him stop. But the faster
that Kadmos ran, the bull ran faster still, and then Kadmos saw that
the bull was running away with his sister, Europa. Away the bull flew,
all along the bank of the river, and up the steep hill and down into
the valley on the other side, and then he scoured along the plain
beneath. And Kadmos watched his white body, which shone like silver as
he dashed through the small bushes and the long waving grass and the
creeping plants which were trailing about all over the ground, till at
last the white body of the bull looked only like a little speck, and
then Kadmos could see it no more.

Very wretched was Kadmos when his sister was taken away from him in
this strange way. His eyes were full of tears so that he could
scarcely see, but still he kept on looking and looking in the way the
bull had gone, and hoping that he would bring his sister back by and
by. But the sun sank lower and lower in the sky, and then Kadmos saw
him go down behind the hills, and he knew now that the bull would not
come again, and then he began to weep bitterly. He hardly dared to go
home and tell Telephassa what had happened, and yet he knew that he
ought to tell her. So he went home slowly and sadly, and Telephassa
saw him coming alone, and she began to be afraid that something had
happened to Europa, and when she came up to him Kadmos could scarcely
speak. At last he said, "The bull has run away with Europa." Then
Telephassa asked him where he had gone, and Kadmos said that he did
not know. But Telephassa said, "Which way did he go?" and then Kadmos
told her that the bull had run away towards the land of the West,
where the sun goes down into his golden cup. Then Telephassa said that
they, too, must get up early in the morning and go towards the land of
the West, and see if they could find Europa again.

That night they hardly slept at all, and their cheeks were pale and
wet with their tears. And before the sun rose, and while the stars
still glimmered in the pale light of the morning, they got up and went
on their journey to look for Europa. Far away they went, along the
valleys and over the hills, across the rivers and through the woods