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aughter were deposited immediately in a burial vault outside of the city, whither Ali followed his beloved. When all had retired, he alone continued sitting in the burying-ground, on her tomb. In the clear night, when the moon illumined the tomb, he said, after a deep silence: "I must see her once more; the sacred moon shall once more shine upon her in my arms, before her beautiful body is reduced to dust." As he said these words, he saw something moving in the high grass between the graves. In hopes that it was the grave-digger, he went near, to ask him to lift the stone from the tomb. On approaching quite close, he discovered that it was Lockman, and shuddered at meeting this little monster on so sacred a spot. By the pale moonlight he appeared to him more hideous and fiend-like than formerly. "What are you doing here?" he asked him. "I assist my master, as I am ever wont to do." "I no longer want your assistance; you are the cause of her misfortune and her death; you seduced me to see her; without me she would still live and be happy." "Would you rather wish never to have seen her?" "Go call the grave-digger, and then go home." "The grave-digger is from home; I know what you want, and can afford you better assistance than he." "You shall not move the stone from the grave." "That would be of little use, for she is not in it." "She is with Allah, but her body is there. I have myself lowered the coffin into the vault, and have never since left the spot." "Where her body is, there she also is," said Lockman; "but neither of them is in the vault." Having said these words, he picked up a human bone from the ground, and knocked with it gently three times on the stone, which moved of its own accord. "Now look in," said he. Ali looked, and saw Gulhyndi's and Hussain's coffins standing open and empty. "Heaven! what is this?" cried Ali, rending his clothes in despair. "Gulhyndi is not dead," said Lockman; "she lives, and still lives for you; if you wish to see her, go some night across the desert. Rest yourself near the spring of Ali Haymmamy, and then go towards the ruins of Babylon; towards the west there is a large grotto of marble; at its entrance you will find me ready to conduct you to your beloved. Banish fear from your heart, and harbour no unworthy suspicion towards your friend and protector." When Lockman had thus spoken, he went away and disappeared among the graves, a few pa
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