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The less he understood whence came his great good fortune,
the more he admired it, but never once imagined that he owed
it to the Princess of China.

Two or three days after, the Princess Badoura, that he might
be nearer to her, and ina more distinguished post, made him high
treasurer, which office had lately become vacant. He behaved
himself in his new charge with so much integrity, yet obliging
everybody, that he not only gained the friendship of the great
but also the affections of the people, by his uprightness and bounty.

_Camaralzaman would have been the happiest man in the world,
if he had had his princess with him. In the midst of his good
fortune he never ceased lamenting her, and grieved that he
could hear no tidings of her, especially in a country where she
must necessarily have come on her way to his father’s court after
their separation. He would have suspected something had the
Princess Badoura still gone by the name of Camaralzaman, but |
on her accession to the throne she changed it, and took that
of Armanos, in honour of the old king her father-in-law. She
was now known only by the name of the young King Armanos.
There were very few courtiers who. knew that she had ever been
called Camaralzaman, which name she assumed when she arrived at
the court of the Isle of Ebony, nor had Camaralzaman so much
acquaintance with any of them yet as to learn more of her history.

The princess fearing he might do so in time, and desiring.
that he should owe the discovery to herself only, resolved to
put an end to her own torment and his; for she had observed that
as often as she discoursed with him about the affairs of his office,
he fetched such deep sighs as could be addressed to nobody but
her. She herself also lived under such constraint that she could
endure it no longer.

The Princess Badoura had no sooncr made this decision. with
the Princess Haiatalnefous, than she took Prince. Camaralzaman