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Updated: May 12, 2025
But each of the panels of the flat part of the wall stood on a transparent gay green smooth-polished stone, which Jussuf could only consider to be most valuable emeralds however improbable it seemed. Hassan allowed him no time to look about him: he had already opened a third room with the strokes of his silver hammer.
All these years, months, days, and hours form the figure of fifty-four. God be praised and His great Prophet, it is not yet of the worst." During this speech he sat down, and at a nod from him Jussuf seated himself opposite. Then he pressed a hidden spring in the little black box, the lid sprang up, and he shook the contents before Jussuf on the table.
"You named his brother, and I have heard that your lord had no brother. What do you, then, mean?" asked Jussuf. "Hassan Assad is not his brother, but his wife's brother," was the answer. "His wife?" asked Jussuf, with unfeigned astonishment. "I know not how it seems to you," said the young man. "What is there so much to be wondered at, and to stand with open mouth?
Jussuf took some of the boxes of precious stones, a good number of purses with sequins, and, above all, the box with the talisman Ketlafgat, loaded his horse with them, took leave of Hassan with heartfelt thankfulness, commanded his slaves to obey their new master, mounted his horse, and rode at the dawn of morning towards the rising of the sun.
A maiden holding a drawn bow knelt on the elephant, and before Jussuf perceived it, the arrow flew from the bow, and his playfellow lay in his arms, pierced through with the arrow. Fright and astonishment took possession of him. Before he recovered himself, the elephant, with its guide, had disappeared, and also the deadly-struck maiden lay no longer in his arms.
Jussuf had been very fond of playing at ball in his younger days, and still possessed some skill, so that he caught it. "Well, indeed, well done," exclaimed she, as she caught it from Jussuf, who had not thrown it quite straight, with the same ease as if it had fallen from the hand of the ablest thrower. They threw it in this way several times to each other, till at last Jussuf let it fall.
Despite this prohibition, however, it chanced that Jussuf, in reply to a determined pull at the bell, did admit a gentleman; and Mr. Kecskerey heard the nigger lad talking in his Kaffir tongue to the new arrival, and was furious with him in consequence. "Who is it, Jussuf?" cried Mr. Kecskerey, in such a sharp voice that the baboon on the sofa behind his back began to hiss for fright.
In the evening when they returned to the palace from the wood, Jussuf wished to remain there some days away from the bustle of the Court, and the King granted this wish. He left behind some servants to wait on him, and returned with his daughter to the capital. At parting, Haschanascha appeared very sad, and Jussuf perceived tears in her eyes.
For that purpose I must know thy exact age. If thou hast not quite forgotten thy former love for thy true master, tell me now the day and hour of thy birth." Jussuf willingly told him the day and the hour, for he was very glad that Modibjah promised to tell him the native country of the butterfly.
"What has happened to thee, friend Jussuf? Why dost thou gaze upon thy turban with such anxious attention? It is a pity they are not bees, the honey might be collected there. Take it up and put it on thy head."
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