middle of the ocean. Then Good said to the king: "Your Majesty,
here is the magic flag-pole standing up. When I sink down there,
you must sink too along the flag-pole." So when they came near
the sinking pole, Good jumped first, and the king followed him.

They sank down and came to the heavenly city. And the king was
astonished, and after he had worshipped the goddess, he sat down
with Good. Then the girl, like Beauty personified, came out of the
circle of light with her friends. "There she is, the lovely creature,"
said Good, and the king thought: "He is quite right to love her."
But when she saw the king looking like a god, she wondered who
the strange and wonderful man might be, and entered the shrine to
worship the goddess.

But the king took Good and went into the garden to show how
little he cared about her. A moment later the girl came from the
shrine; she had been praying for a good husband. And she said to a
girl friend: "My friend, I wonder where I could see the man who
was here. Where is the great man? You girls must hunt for him and
ask him to be good enough to come and accept our hospitality. For
he is a wonderful man, and we must be polite to him."

So the girl found him in the garden and gave him her mistress'
message very respectfully. But the brave king spoke loftily to her:
"Your words are hospitality enough. Nothing else is necessary."

Now when her mistress had heard what he said, she thought he
was a noble character, better than anybody else. She was attracted
by the courage of the king in refusing a sort of hospitality which
was almost too much to offer a mere man, and thought about the