genie bowed his head in token of obedience, and disappeared.
Immediately the palace was transported into China, and its removal was
felt only by two little shocks, the one when it was lifted up, the
other when it was set down, and both in a very short interval of time.

On the morning after the restoration of Aladdin's palace the sultan
was looking out of his window, mourning over the fate of his daughter,
when he thought that he saw the vacancy created by the disappearance
of the palace to be again filled up.

On looking more attentively, he was convinced beyond the power of
doubt that it was his son-in-law's palace. Joy and gladness succeeded
to sorrow and grief. He at once ordered a horse to be saddled, which
he mounted that instant, thinking he could not make haste enough to
the place.

Aladdin rose that morning by daybreak, put on one of the most
magnificent habits his wardrobe afforded, and went up into the hall of
the twenty-four windows, from whence he perceived the sultan
approaching, and received him at the foot of the great staircase,
helping him to dismount.

He led the sultan into the princess's apartment. The happy father
embraced her with tears of joy; and the princess, on her side,
afforded similar testimonies of her extreme pleasure. After a short
interval, devoted to mutual explanations of all that had happened, the
sultan restored Aladdin to his favor, and expressed his regret for the
apparent harshness with which he had treated him.

"My son," said he, "be not displeased at my proceedings against you;
they arose from my paternal love, and therefore you ought to forgive
the excesses to which it hurried me."

"Sire," replied Aladdin, "I have not the least reason to complain of
your conduct, since you did nothing but what your duty required. This
infamous magician, the basest of men, was the sole cause of my
misfortune."

The African magician, who was thus twice foiled in his endeavor to
rain Aladdin, had a younger brother, who was as skillful a magician as
himself and exceeded him in wickedness and hatred of mankind. By
mutual agreement they communicated with each other once a year,
however widely separate might be their place of residence from each
other. The younger brother, not having received as usual his annual
communication, prepared to take a horoscope and ascertain his
brother's proceedings. He, as well as his brother, always carried a
geomantic square instrument about him; he prepared