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Accordingly, next morning, Alaeddin mounted and rode to the Divan, where he took his seat as Chief of the Sixty. Presently the Khalif bade his treasurer give the Vizier Jaafer ten thousand dinars and said to the latter, 'I charge thee to go down to the slave-market and buy Alaeddin a slave-girl with this sum. So Jaafer took Alaeddin and went down with him to the bazaar.
On January 13th 1887, the Burtons reached Paris, where Sir Richard had the pleasure of meeting Herr Zotenberg, discoverer of the Arabic originals of Alaeddin and Zayn al Asnam; and thence they proceeded to Cannes, where the state of Burton's health gave his wife great uneasiness. She says, "I saw him dripping his pen anywhere except into the ink.
As they were thus passing the time in mirth and delight, there came a knocking at the door and Zubeideh said to Alaeddin, 'Go and see who is at the door. So he went down and finding four dervishes standing without, said to them, 'What do you want? 'O my lord, answered they, 'we are foreign dervishes, the food of whose souls is music and dainty verse, and we would fain take our pleasure with thee this night.
So he drugged them with henbane and taking the Khalif's dress and dagger and rosary and handkerchief and signet-ring and lantern, returned whence he came and betook himself to the house of Alaeddin, who had that night celebrated his wedding festivities with Jessamine and had gone in to her and gotten her with child.
Then I bought Syrian stuffs and carrying them to Aleppo, disposed of them there at a like profit; after which I bought stuffs of Aleppo and repaired with them to Baghdad, where I sold them with the same result; nor did I cease to buy and sell, till I was worth nigh ten thousand dinars. Each of the others told a like tale, till it came to Alaeddin's turn, when they said to him, 'And thou, O my lord Alaeddin? Quoth he, 'I was brought up in a chamber underground and came forth from it but this week and I do but go to the shop and return home. 'Thou art used to abide at home, rejoined they, 'and knowest not the delight of travel, for travel is for men only. 'I reck not of travel, answered he, 'and value ease above all things. Whereupon quoth one to the other, 'This youth is like the fish: when he leaves the water he dies. Then they said to him, 'O Alaeddin, the glory of the sons of the merchants is not but in travel for the sake of gain. Their talk angered him and he left them, weeping-eyed and mourning-hearted, and mounting his mule, returned home.
I will not enter Baghdad till the morning, that the townsfolk may see my merchandise and know me. 'Do as thou wilt, said the muleteer; 'I have given thee good counsel, and thou must judge for thyself. Then Alaeddin bade them unload the mules and pitch the tent; so they did his bidding and abode there till the middle of the night, when the youth went out to do an occasion and seeing something gleaming afar off, said to Kemaleddin, 'O captain, what is yonder glittering? The muleteer sat up and considering it straitly, knew it for the glint of spear-heads and Bedouin swords and harness.
'O Zubeideh, rejoined the princess, 'be of good cheer and play us an air, as a thank-offering for reunion with thy husband. 'Where is he? asked Zubeideh, and Meryem replied, 'He is in yonder closet, listening to us. So Zubeideh played a measure on the lute, that would have made a rock dance; which when Alaeddin heard, his entrails were troubled and he came forth and throwing himself upon his wife, strained her to his bosom.
So I abode with her till God brought us together in this church. Then the princess turned to him and said, 'O my lord Alaeddin, wilt thou accept of me to wife? 'O my lady, replied he, 'I am a Muslim and thou art a Nazarene; so how can I marry thee? 'God forbid, rejoined she, 'that I should be an infidel!
When the slave saw him, he alighted and kissed his hands: and Alaeddin said, 'What dost thou want? Quoth he, 'I am the slave of my load Alaeddin Abou esh Shamat, son of Shemseddin, Provost of the merchants of Cairo, who has sent me to him with this charge. Then he gave him the letter and Alaeddin, opening it, read what follows: Harkye, my letter, when my beloved sees thee, Kiss thou the earth before him and his shoes.
But if we part company with him, I fear destruction for ourselves; so let us still make one caravan. But Alaeddin said, 'It may not be: I will never again travel with him. So he loaded his beasts and journeyed onward, he and his company, till they came to a valley, where Alaeddin would have halted, but the muleteer said to him, 'Do not halt here; rather let us fare forward and quicken our pace, so haply we may reach Baghdad before the gates are closed, for they open and shut them with the sun, for fear the schismatics should take the city and throw the books of learning into the Tigris. 'O my father, replied Alaeddin, 'I came not to Baghdad with this merchandise, for the sake of traffic, but to divert myself with the sight of foreign lands. And Kemaleddin rejoined, 'O my son, we fear for thee and for thy goods from the wild Arabs. But he answered, 'Harkye, sirrah, art thou master or servant?
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