Flora stood rooted to the spot. "Albia, Abia, come back, come back she called, "your husband has been frightened to death."
The snake drew back into the bed, and the witch in her dream heard the voice of Flora, In an instant, she changed her form and got out of bed.- Seeing Hanwin dead, she began to wring her hands, and winding her arms about his neck kissed him tenderly, He did not know what he was doing when he made me drink the hart all," said she.
"T suppose we must leave Soochow and seek other adventures, now that Hanwin is dead, What shall we do with him?" said the unfeeling Flora, in a businesslike way.
""Do with him" repeated Albia, reproachfully, "why I shall go at once to Fairy Pool and get the herb of life.""
"Stirely you would not risk your life on that," said Flora, would risk my life if there were any chance to bring my dear husband back to life. Oh! if I only bad a small piece of the precious herb, how happy I should be," sighed the distressed wife.
"What a foolish Albia you are to talk that way. Let us leave this body here and go somewhere else," said Flora heartlessly.
"Instead of doing that, I intend to proceed: at once to the Fairy Pool and pluck the herb, I'shall be obliged to steal it, as I know it is never given to mortals. Of course there is small chance of my ever succeeding, and I stake my existence on the venture, but I must go. My life is bound up in Hanwin. So I command you to remain by the body until I come back, or long enough to know that Ihave perished. Good-bye, I cannot stay longer."
Off she flew on a cloud, and Flora watched her disappear.
Albin directed her way to the borders of Fairy Land, and the cloud went so rapidly that she arrived in the course of an hour at the entrance. This was a cave and guarded by the white-faced monkey who stood up at her approach. Assuming an important look, she called "Tam a former pupil of the Old Mother of Hainan, fated to marry Hanwin on earth. He is sick, and I come beseeching the herb of life."
The white-faced monkey opened his wise eyes, and saw before him the: disguised witch. So he shouted: "What often calls to the soul that she whee " Grey og she Chinese mother be near in the same words, Come tack, come back," thinking that it-is possible for it to return and revivify the body.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.