After a time Orion left her. He wanted to marry the daughter of a king in one of the islands of the sea. The king said that he might if he would drive all the wild beasts out of the island. Orion did this, but the king did not keep his word.
Instead of that, he put out the eyes of Orion, but Orion went to Apollo, and was made to see again.
Then Orion went back to help Artemis with her hunting, but Apollo did not like that and wished to get rid of him.
He did not wish, himself, to hurt Orion, so he made Artemis do it.
"Sister," he said to her one day, "some men say that you can shoot as well as I can, but we all know that is not so."
"I should like to know why it is not so!" said Artemis.
"Well, let us try," said Apollo. "Do you see that little black speck away out there in the sea?"
"Yes, I see it," said Artemis.
"Can you hit it?" asked Apollo.
"Indeed I can," said Artemis; and with that she let an arrow fly from her bow. It went straight through the black speck.