s head cut off. "Go out," he said to him.

"Wait till I make my ablutions" [for prayer], answered the saint.

The people of the makhzen who surrounded him watched him among them,
waiting until he had finished his ablutions, to take him to the council of
the King and cut off his head. When Sidi Mahomet had finished washing, he
lifted his eyes to heaven, got into the tub where was washing, and vanished
completely from sight. When the guardians saw that he was no longer there,
they went vainly to continue the search at his house at Tagountaft.

* * * * *

THE HAUNTED GARDEN

A man who possessed much money had two daughters. The son of the caliph of
the King asked for one of them, and the son of the cadi asked for the
other, but their father would not let them marry, although they desired it.
He had a garden near his house. When it was night, the young girls went
there, the young men came to meet them, and they passed the night in
conversation. One night their father saw them. The next morning he killed
his daughters, buried them in his garden, and went on a pilgrimage.

That lasted so until one night the son of the cadi and the son of the
caliph went to a young man who knew how to play on the flute and the rebab.
"Come with us," they said to him, "into the garden of the man who will not
give us his daughters in marriage. You shall play for us on your
instruments." They agreed to meet there that night. The musician went to
the garden, but the two young men did not go. The musician remained and
played his music alone. In the middle of the night two lamps appeared, and
the two young girls came out of the ground under the lamps. They said to
the musician: "We are two sisters, daughters of the owner of the garden.
Our father killed us and buried us here. You, you are our brother for this
night. We will give you the money which our father has hidden in three
pots. Dig here," they added. He obeyed, found the three pots, took them
away, and became rich, while the two girls returned to their graves.

* * * * *

THE WOMAN AND THE FAIRY

A woman who was named Omm Halima went one day to the stream to wash at the
old spring. Alone, in the middle of the day, she began her work, when a
woman appeared to her and said: "Let us be friends, you and I, and let us
make a promise. When you come to this spring, bring me some herma and
perfumes. Cast them into the fount