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One of them then traced a small cross with his forefinger upon the wall, and immediately there opened a small vaulted chamber. "What!" said Jalaladdeen, "am I to enter that gloomy hole?" shuddering and involuntarily drawing back, in consequence of the cold damp vapour that issued from it.
"Didst thou so often wish for me when I, in the guise of an old woman, roused thee night after night from thy peaceful slumbers and happy dreams with my crutch?" "How!" exclaimed Jalaladdeen; "wast thou that hideous old woman? impossible!" "Passing strange, perchance, it may seem; but nevertheless it is so: all things are possible to the King of Spirits, which mortal mind can barely comprehend."
Here he dismounted from his horse, passed up the steps, and proceeded through the colonnades and antechambers which led to the throne-room, where Gulnaschare was seated, surrounded by a splendid retinue. The royal maiden rose from her throne at his entrance; but how amazed and confused was Jalaladdeen!
At length, weary and exhausted, he arrived at the opening, and was about to enter, with the eagle's wing in his hand, when the man who had given him the bow and arrow presented himself before him, and said, "Hast thou done thy duty?" Jalaladdeen immediately placed the wing in his hands. "Good," replied the other; "I will see if it be the right one."
The others also approved of the plan, and pressed him to become one of them. "I would willingly do so," said Jalaladdeen; "but I must first know what your society is, and whether it would be proper for me to conform to its customs. Some associations are dangerous." "Have no fear on that account," said one: "our brotherhood is perfectly harmless, and its aim innocent.
Canst thou be such a stranger in the country as to be ignorant of the prediction of the prophet and the astrologers? and how she has led her subjects into grievous error, to the effect that the Prince Jalaladdeen would appear in a wonderful manner in the country on the longest day of the year, and fall upon his enemies with the strength of a lion and the swiftness of an eagle?"
There, every morning immediately after sunrise, you will see a swarm of black eagles on the shore, and among them a single white one. This kill, and, in proof of what you have done, bring back here the left wing." This announcement came like a thunderbolt upon the miserable Jalaladdeen, who had fancied that he had arrived very near the end of his journey.
Then Jalaladdeen, advancing from the throne, addressed the throng: "Heartily do I thank Allah and the Prophet that my fate has taken so wondrous and happy a turn; but, above all, I prize my good fortune in becoming the husband of this amiable Princess." Jalaladdeen thus concluded his address; and Gulnaschare said to him,
The slave removed the chest without ceremony, and Jalaladdeen contemplated, for some time, with great earnestness, the spot where it had lately stood; and as it did not appear again, he fancied that he had rid himself of it for ever. All at once, however, it was standing on the same spot once more, without his having observed by what agency it had been done.
He inquired what was his duty, and received this answer: "Go and fetch water." "What!" said he; "fetch water in a basket! It will run out between the rushes!" The man shrugged up his shoulders, and said, "That is for you to look to: water you must bring in this basket, and without the aid of any other vessel; for you will stand in need of the water." "That is impossible," replied Jalaladdeen.
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