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maniac became at once as gentle as a lamb, and, 

 instead of tearing out the physician's eyes, 

 greeted him with a most wonderful cordiality. 

 The attendants ran to the sultan declaring that a 

 miracle had been performed, and during their ab- 

 sence the princess hurriedly explained to her lover 

 all that had befallen her since the perfidious 

 Hindoo had carried her away on the enchanted 

 horse. She and her captor had alighted, she said, 

 at a little distance from the city of Kashmir for 

 the purpose of procuring food before continuing 

 their flight into India. There they were discov- 

 ered by a company of soldiers, who killed the 

 Hindoo and carried her, together with the en- 

 chanted horse, into the city. The sultan had no 

 sooner set his eyes upon her than he resolved to 

 make her his wife. Apartments were given to 

 her in the palace, a great wedding-feast was made 

 ready, and — 



" I know the rest ! " cried Firouz Schah. " And 

 now for the escape ! " 



A moment later the attendants returned, and 

 with them the sultan, trembling alternately with 

 fear and hope — fear that the princess might 

 scratch his eyes out; hope that the physician 

 had restored her to her senses. And well might 



