go oo as, . Prince Nimed

calls, that I am afraid I shall sooner be thought troublesome than
be accused of negligence in my duty.’ ;

The Sultan of the Indies pressed Prince Ahmed no more; but said
to him, ‘Son, I penetrate no further into your secrets, but leave you
at your liberty. I can only tell you, that you could not do me a
greater pleasure than to come and by your presence restore to me
the joy I have not felt for a long time, and that you will always be
welcome when you come,’

Prince Ahmed stayed but three days at the sultan his father’s
court, and on the -fourth returned to the fairy Pari Banou, who
received him with great joy, as she did not expect him so soon.

_ A month after Prince Ahmed’s return from paying a visit to his
father, as the fairy Pari Banou had observed that since the time that
the Prince gave her an account.of his journey and his conversation
with his father, in which he asked his leave to come and see him from
time to time, he had never, spoken of the sultan, as if there had been

_ no such person in the world, whereas before he was always: speaking
of him, she said to him one day, ‘Tell me, prince, have you forgotten
the sultan your father? Do you.not remember the promise you
made to go and see him from time to time? For _my part, I have
not forgotten what you told meat your return, and put you in mind
of it. Pay him another visit to-morrow, and after that go and see
him once a month, without speaking to me, or waiting for my. leave.

I readily consent,

Prince Ahmed went the next morning with the same attendants
as before, but much finer, and himself more magnificently mounted,

_ equipped, and dressed, and was received by the sultan with the same
joy and satisfaction. For several months he constantly. paid him
visits, and always i in a richer and More brilliant equipage. .

At last some viziers, the sultan’ s favourites, who judged of Prince
Ahmed’s grandeur and power by the figure he made, abused the
liberty the sultan gave them of speaking to him, to make: him. jealous