ing eyes, and cock's feathers, on his pointed
hat. He no sooner perceived that she was looking at him, than the
apparition disappeared, and he again stood before her in his former
beauty.

"Holy Allah! Mighty prophet!" exclaimed she, falling on her knees and
extending her white arms towards the moon, "save me from this fiend!
Remove this seducer who harasses me!" As she uttered these words the
young king vanished, and her faithful Argus came in and sat down at her
side. The birds were singing in the bushes; the fountain, which had
ceased flowing, again murmured, and Gulhyndi fell into a sweet slumber,
during which a dream showed her Ali, with his hand on his heart,
saying, "I am faithful." From this time she saw the young king no
more. She lived on the roots of the earth, the fruit of the trees, and
drank from the fountain. No nymph or other creature appeared again.
Her heart being tranquilised, hope revived again in her soul, and she
bloomed like the rose in the valley. She tamed many pretty animals,
and lived among them like a shepherdess, praying night and morning to
Allah, that he might show her Ali, who appeared nightly, in her most
pleasing dreams.

While the fair Gulhyndi thus lived happily, her father, on awaking,
found himself in a condition quite the reverse of hers. When he opened
his eyes, he was stretched on a barren rock, under a burning sun, and
with the cord still round his neck. Stung by an innumerable quantity
of gnats and flies, that were buzzing round him, he sprung up, and with
all the torments of a parching thirst, which allowed him no time for
reflection, he ran about seeking a spring to refresh himself, but found
none--not even a tree was nigh to cast a shade in which he might
repose. Just as he was falling senseless to the ground, he discovered
a cavern, which, by the rays of the sun shining into it, he found was
spacious.

Further in the back ground some rays of light fell in through an
aperture. Hussain entered, and found a table cut out in the rock. A
stone near it served as a chair, a wooden goblet stood on it, and close
by a fountain was bubbling. The first thing he did was to take the
goblet and run to the fountain in order to fill it and drink. He
filled it a second time, but finding it too cool in the shady cavern,
and apprehensive of producing a fever, he took the goblet, sat down at
the entrance of the cavern in the sun, and slowly emptied its contents.
While doing t