for Europa, for I am quite sure that you will find her some day,
although I shall not be with you. And when you see your sister, tell
her how I longed to find her again, and how much I loved her always.
And now, my child, I must go to sleep, and if I do not wake up any
more, then I trust that we shall all see each other again one day, in
a land which is brighter and happier than even the land in which we
used to live before your sister was taken away from us."

So when she had said this, Telephassa fell asleep, just as the
daylight was going away from the sky, and when the bright round moon
rose up slowly from behind the dark hill. All night long Kadmos
watched by her side, and when the morning came, he saw that Telephassa
had died while she was asleep. Her face was quite still, and Kadmos
knew by the happy smile which was on it, that she had gone to the
bright land to which good people go when they are dead. Kadmos was
very sorry to be parted from his mother, but he was not sorry that now
she could not feel tired or sorrowful any more. So Kadmos placed his
mother's body in the ground, and very soon all kinds of flowers grew
up upon her grave.

But Kadmos had gone on to look for his sister, Europa, and presently
he met a shepherd who was leading his flock of sheep. He was very
beautiful to look at. His face shone as bright almost as the sun. He
had a golden harp, and a golden bow, and arrows in a golden quiver,
and his name was Phoebus Apollo. And Kadmos went up to him and said,
"Have you seen my sister, Europa? a white bull ran away with her on
his back. Can you tell me where I can find her?" And Phoebus Apollo
said, "I have seen your sister, Europa, but I can not tell you yet
where she is, you must go on a great way further still, till you come
to a town which is called Delphi, under a great mountain named
Parnassos, and there perhaps you may be able to find out something
about her. But when you have seen her you must not stay there, because
I wish you to build a city, and become a King, and be wise and strong
and good. You and Europa must follow a beautiful cow that I shall
send, till it lies down upon the ground to rest, and the place where
the cow shall lie down shall be the place where I wish you to build
the city."

So Kadmos went on and on till he came to the town of Delphi, which lay
beneath the great mountain, called Parnassos. And there he saw a
beautiful temple with white marble pillars, which shone bri