30 ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES.

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custom, repaired to her house during
the ceremony of the burial, and joining
their cries to hers, filled the air with
sounds of woe. Thus the manner of
Cassim’s death was so well hidden that
no one in the city had any thought of
it.

But let us now leave Ali Baba and
Morgiana, and return to the forty thieves.
When they came back to their cave,
they found the body of Cassim gone, and
with it much of their treasure. “We
are discovered,” said the Captain, “‘ and