the younger princess left her sister to take charge of the happy hunter, and going faster than they, she reached the sea king's palace first, and running quickly to her father's room, she told him of all that had happened to them at the gate, and that her sister was even now bringing the augustness to him. the dragon king of the sea was much surprised at the news, for it was but seldom, perhaps only once in several hundred years, that the sea king's palace was visited by mortals.