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Updated: May 7, 2025
As the Sultan read this intelligence in the tablet of Horam, his heart failed within him, and the sight of his eyes was as a mist before him. "O Misnar! Misnar!" said he, falling to the ground, "the fiend of darkness is let loose upon thee! and the powers of enchantment still prevail!" "Yes," said Ulin the enchantress, who immediately appeared, "the powers of enchantment shall prevail!
He called a council of his captains, and commanded the Vizier Horam to be brought before them. The Vizier was condemned by every voice, and Misnar, with tears in his eyes, pronounced the sentence of death against him. "To-morrow," said the Sultan, "must the ill-fated Horam be numbered with the dead." Horam heard the sentence without emotion.
Lead me, villain!" continued he, "back to my tent, and expect with the rising of the sun the fate you have so amply merited." Thus saying, the Sultan returned, and the captain of the guard led Horam back in chains to his place of confinement.
The Vizier rejoiced at the assurances of his female slave, and bade her immediately prepare herself to appear before the Sultan. The slave, having put on her veil, followed the Vizier Horam, and was introduced to the tent of Misnar. "What!" said the Sultan, as he saw his Vizier enter with the female slave, "what new kind of warrior has Horam brought me?"
The Vizier Horam was struck with the prudence of his youthful Sultan, and bowed in assent to his words. In a few days the armies of India assembled; the royal tent was pitched, and the Vizier was declared the leader of his Sultan's forces. Misnar entered his tent in great state, and Horam alone followed the Sultan into the retirements of the movable pavilion.
"What!" said the Sultan, starting from his knees, "do I behold the unfortunate Princess of Cassimir?" "Illustrious Hemjunah," said the Vizier Horam, as the Princess stared wildly about her, "Misnar, the Sultan of India, is before thee." "Yes," interrupted the fair spirit, "doubt not, Hemjunah, the truth of the Vizier Horam; for behold!
But the prudent Sultan, in his flight, endeavoured to restore to his troops their rank and order; and while Horam reduced the foot under their proper banners, Misnar regulated the confusion of the horse, and placed them as a covering to the rest of his forces.
"Faithful Horam," answered the Sultan, "your present is of such exquisite value, that I shall, in confidence, honour you with the first place in my esteem.
Wherefore, O Horam, no longer my slave, but my friend, lead forth my armies with confidence and trust, and doubt not that He, who daily refresheth the sun with light, will shortly restore Misnar to the throne of his forefathers."
Horam immediately recollected the features of the good old saint, and said, "My royal master, yonder is Shemshelnar, the most pious worshipper of Allah among all the sons of Asia." "I do not remember his features," answered Misnar: "came he not to the council of our divan?" "No, my royal lord," said Horam, "the infirmities of age were upon him."
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