18 ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES.

      
     
  

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will go and inform the officer of police
of it.”

Ali Baba, led rather by his good
nature than by fear, told him all, even to
the words he must pronounce, both on
entering the cave and on quitting it.
Cassim made no further enquiries of Ali
Baba; he left him, determined to seize
the whole treasure, and set off next
morning before break of day with ten