He plunged into the pool, and when he rose to the surface, he found himself in the pool of King Fierce-lion in Copper City.And when he saw that he had come there so suddenly, he thought: "Oh, what does it mean? Where is that heavenly garden? What a difference between the sight of that girl which was like nectar to me, and this immediate separation from her which is like terrible poison! It was no dream.I was awake when the serving-maid deceived me and made a fool of me."He was like a madman without the girl.He wandered in the garden and mourned in a lovelorn way.He was surrounded by wind-blown flower-pollen which seemed to him the yellow flames of separation.Andwhen the gardener saw him in this state, he went and told the king.
And the king was troubled.He went himself to see Good, and asked him soothingly: "What does this mean? Tell me, my friend.Where did you go? And where did you come? And where did you stay? And what did you fall into?"Then Good told him the whole adventure.And the king thought: "Ah, it is fortunate for me that this brave man is lovelorn.For now I have a chance to pay my debt to him." So the king said to him: "My friend, give over this vain grief.I will go with you by the same road, and bring you to the heavenly maiden." So he comforted Good, and made him take a bath.
The next day he transferred his royal duties to his counsellors and entered a ship with Good.Good showed the way through the sea and they saw the flag-pole with its banners rising as before in the 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 fulfilment of her prayer for a husband.So she went into the garden herself.She drew near to the king and lovingly begged him to accept her hospitality.
But the king pointed to Good and said: "My dear girl, he told me of the goddess here, and I came to see her.And by following the flag-pole I saw the goddess and her very marvellous temple.It was only afterwards that I happened to see you."Then the girl said: "O King, you may be interested in seeing a city which is the wonder of the three worlds." And the king laughed and said: "He told me about that, too.I believe there is a pool for bathing there." And the girl said: "O King, do not say that.I am not a deceitful girl.Why should I deceive an honourable man, especially as your noble character has made me feel like a servant? Pray do not refuse me."So the king agreed and went with Good and the girl to the edge of the circle of light.There a door opened and he entered and saw another heavenly city like a second hill of heaven; for it was built of gems and gold, and the flowers and fruits of every season grew there at the same time.
And the princess seated the king on a splendid throne and brought him gifts and said: "Your Majesty, I am the daughter of the great god Black- wheel.But Vishnu sent my father to heaven.And I inherited these two magic cities where one has everything he wants.There is no old age or death to trouble us here.And now you are in the place of my father to rule over the cities and over me." So she offered him herself and all she had.But the king said: "In that case you are my daughter and I give you in marriage to my brave friend good."In the king's words she saw the fulfilment of her prayer, and being sensible and modest, she agreed.So the king married them and gave all the magic wealth to happy Good, and said: "My friend, I have paid you now for one of the two mangoes which I ate.But I remain in your debt for the second."Then he asked the princess how he could get back to his city.And she gave the king a sword called Invincible, and the magic fruit which wards off birth, old age, and death.And the king took the sword and the fruit, plunged into the pool which she showed him, and came up in his own country, feeling completely successful.But Good ruled happily over the kingdom of the princess.
When the goblin had told this story, he asked the king: "O King, which of these two deserves more credit for plunging into the sea?"And the king was afraid of the curse, so he gave a true answer: "Good seems to me the more deserving, for he did not know the truth beforehand, but plunged without hope into the sea, while the king knew the truth when he jumped."And as soon as the king broke silence, the goblin slipped from his shoulder as before without being seen and went to the sissoo tree.And the king tried as before to catch him.Brave men do not waver until they have finished what they have begun.
