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As for Kwan-yu himself, he had long ago given up all thought of success, for nothing had happened since his second failure to make him any surer this time of success.
At last, however, after consulting an astrologer, Kwan-yu appointed a day for the casting, and then there came another courtier robed in splendid garments, saying that at the proper hour the Great One himself would for the first time cross Kwan-yu's threshold would come to see the casting of the bell he had ordered for his people.
When at last she saw his head move forward she sprang with a wild leap into the boiling liquid, at the same time crying in her clear, sweet voice: "For thee, dear father! It is the only way!" The molten white metal received the lovely girl into its ardent embrace, received her, and swallowed her up completely, as in a tomb of liquid fire. And Kwan-yu what of Kwan-yu, the frantic father?
A third chance you shall have to cast the bell, but if on that third attempt you fail then by order of the Vermilion Pencil both you and Ming-lin, who recommended you, shall pay the penalty." For a long time after the Emperor had departed, Kwan-yu lay on the floor surrounded by his attendants, but chief of all those who tried to restore him was his faithful daughter.
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