But when she returned to the grotto, little Byblis had disappeared.
CHAPTER II
When Byblis found herself alone upon the little bed of green leaves upon which she had slept by her brother’s side every night, she had in vain tried to sleep; but that evening dreams came not to her.
She went out into the warm night. A gentle breath of air swayed the darkness of the forest. She sat down and watched the flowing stream.
“Why,” she thought, “has not Caunos come back. What has called him away and kept him from me. Who is it, father, that is separating us?”
As this last idea came to her she leant over the spring.
“Father!” she repeated, “father! where is Caunos? Reveal the secret to me?”
A murmur of the water answered—