176 Be | The Loss of the Talisman

 

since the Princess Badoura your wife, whom I have all along thought
to be my son-in-law, through a deceit of. which I cannot complain,
assures me that she is willing, I have nothing more to do but to
ask you if you are willing to marry my daughter and accept the
crown, which the Princess Badoura would deserved ’y wear as long
-as she lived, if she did not quit it out of love to you.

‘Sir, replied Prince Camaralzaman, ‘though I desire nothing so
earnestly as to see the king my father, yet the obligation I am under
to your majesty and the Princess Haiatalnefous are so weighty, I
can refuse her nothing’ Camaralzaman was proclaimed king, and
married the same day with all possible demonstrations of joy.

Not long afterwards they all resumed the long interrupted journey
to the Isles of the Children of Khaledan, where they were fortunate
enough to find the. old King Schahzaman still alive and overjoyed
to see his son once more; and after several months’ rejoicing,
King Camaralzaman and ‘he two queens returned to the Island

of Ebony, where they lived in great. happiness for the remainder
of their lives.