While she was crying, Wang The-king entered the cabin.
"Fear nothing," said he; "forget those people who are no more and won't come back. I am going to take you home to the city of The-Golden-tombs. There I have fields and houses belonging to me; I will give them to you."
The young woman kept back her sobs and said nothing; she thought it wise not to provoke the murderer.
Wang The-king, very satisfied with his prospects, went back to the mariners, gave them the greater part of what his victims had brought in silver and luggage; then he quietly took his dinner and retired to his cabin with his wife. The woman had a strange look, but she did not say anything, and they went to sleep.
Towards the hour of the Rat, the woman began to groan; then she started out of her sleep and cried to her husband:
"Kill me, repudiate me! I can no longer stay with you! Thunder and lightning will strike you! I have dreamt it; I will no longer be the wife of a murderer and a thief!"
Wang, furious, struck her. But as she continued, he took her in his arms and threw her into the river.
On the second day the boat arrived at The-Golden-tombs. Wang took Seaweed to his family. When his old mother asked what he had done with his first wife, he replied:
"She fell in the river, and I will marry this one."
They were soon settled in the house. Wang wished to take liberties with Seaweed, who gently drove him back.