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Updated: June 10, 2025
You may like to see it," and Shin Shira reached up to his head for the turban in which I had noticed the jewel sparkling only a moment before. It was gone! "Dear me! I'm disappearing again myself, I'm afraid," said Shin Shira, looking down at his legs, from which the feet had already vanished. "Good-bye!" he had just time to call out, before he departed in a little yellow flicker. "Hi! Hi!"
I knew Aladdin well, and I've often handled this lamp before." "Impossible!" I exclaimed, gazing at the big black giant who stood, with his arms folded, in dignified silence before us. "Nothing is impossible in the East," said Shin Shira, "as you'll quickly find out if you remain here long. And now now that you are the possessor of Aladdin's lamp what are you going to do with it?"
"I say! you know! but it's the rippingest thing I've ever heard of. Why, we'll be able to go anywhere. Just think what an awful lot we'll save in railway fares and cabs and those sort of things. I suppose anybody can use it?" he inquired, turning to Shin Shira. "Oh yes, of course," declared the little Yellow Dwarf, "so long as you say, out loud, where you want to go to." "Oh!
I felt, however, that the best thing to do was to preserve silence: it would at least gain time; so I shook my head and pretended not to understand a word of what he was saying in his broken English. The man doubly locked the door and hurried off to inform his superior officers, and I was left alone once more. My eyes fell upon the crystal, and I suddenly thought of what Shin Shira had said.
"I'll attract him in another direction, and while he is after me you all escape over the fence," he cried hurriedly, and snatching a red silk handkerchief from Lionel's pocket, he rushed out into the open. The bull paused, and though I frantically shouted to Shin Shira to come back, the brave little fellow flourished the red handkerchief to attract the creature's attention.
"I was rather more fortunate," said Shin Shira, "for amongst those which I saved were one or two very valuable ones, and several more which I can sell at a very good price when it becomes necessary." "But I thought you could have whatever you wished for?" said Dick.
I was never so keen-scented as that, but when I awakened next day in a camceiled room in Elrigmore, and put my head out at the window to look around, I smelt the heather for a second like an escapade in a dream. Down to Ealan Eagal I went for a plunge in the linn in the old style, and the airs of Shira Glen hung about me like friends and lovers, so well acquaint and jovial.
A brief consultation with the authorities and the signing of various papers made me free to enter the prison, and having thanked the Consul for his kind offices, I was led away by one of the officials to a terribly dark dungeon, in which, crouched in a corner, I found my poor friend Shin Shira, looking the picture of misery.
"Oh, we're just walking home," I replied, "only Lionel had a fancy to pass the Round Pond on our way; the little model yachts one often sees there are very amusing to watch." "Yes," agreed Shin Shira. "There's one been left behind to-day," he continued. "The boys who threw the stone at the duck were seen by the park keeper, and when he came after them they ran away, leaving their boat behind them.
"But now, alas! comes the sorrowful part, for, before the ceremony of our marriage could be completed, I was doomed by the fairies to disappear, and so I lost for ever my beautiful bride," and Shin Shira gave a deep sigh. "The jewel though," he added, "remained mine, and I have always worn it in the front of my turban in honour and memory of the lovely Princess.
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