So, as Perseus and Andromeda came into the town, whom should they meet  but his mother fleeing to the altar of Jupiter, and the king following  after, intent on killing her? Danaë was so frightened that she did not  see Perseus, but ran right on towards the only place of safety.

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At last when he  found that she could not be made to have him, he declared that he would  kill her; and on this very morning he had started out, sword in hand, to  take her life.

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   Now, the wicked king of that land had never ceased trying to persuade  Danaë to become his wife; but she would not listen to him, and the more  he pleaded and threatened, the more she disliked him.

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  The ship came to land at the very spot where the wooden chest had been  cast so many years before; and Perseus and his bride walked through the  fields towards the town.

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The Timely Rescue   But Perseus had not forgotten his mother; and so, one fine summer day,  he and Andromeda sailed in a beautiful ship to his own home; for the  Magic Slippers could not carry both him and his bride through the air.

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And the two young people lived  happily for some time in the land of palms and pyramids; and, from the  sea to the mountains, nothing was talked about but the courage of  Perseus and the beauty of Andromeda.

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”   This pleased the king very much; and so, on the seventh day, Perseus and  Andromeda were married, and there was a great feast in the king’s  palace, and everybody was merry and glad.

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And Perseus was so delighted with  Andromeda’s beauty that he almost forgot his quest which was not yet  finished; and when the king asked him what he should give him as a  reward for saving Andromeda’s life, he said:   'Give her to me for my wife.

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But when they saw her alive and well, and learned that she had  been saved by the handsome young man who stood beside her, they could  hardly hold themselves for joy.

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   While Perseus was yet talking with Andromeda, the king and the queen and  a great company of people came down the shore, weeping and tearing their  hair; for they were sure that by this time the monster had devoured his  prey.

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This,  then, was why she had been chained to the rock by the shore and left  there to perish in the jaws of the beast.

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But day after day the monster laid waste the land, and  threatened to destroy not only the farms, but the towns; and so they  were forced in the end to give up Andromeda to save their country.

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   The king and the queen loved their daughter very dearly, for she was  their only child; and for a long time they refused to do as the Pythia  had told them.

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The  people were so much distressed that they sent at last to ask the Pythia  what they should do; and the Pythia said that there was only one way to  save the land from destruction,–that they must give the king’s  daughter, Andromeda, to the monster to be devoured.

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  So Neptune sent a sea monster to crush the king’s ships and kill the  cattle along the shore and break down all the fishermen’s huts.

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  When the sea nymphs heard about this, they were very angry and asked  great Neptune, the king of the sea, to punish the queen for her pride.

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She said that her mother, the queen, was very beautiful and very  proud of her beauty; and every day she went down to the seashore to look  at her face as it was pictured in the quiet water; and she had boasted  that not even the nymphs who live in the sea were as handsome as she.

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She told him that her  name was Andromeda, and that she was the daughter of the king of that  land.

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   Then Perseus slipped the Gorgon’s head back into the pouch and hastened  to speak with the young girl whom he had saved.

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