216 ALI BABA AND

Three or four days after the funeral, Ali Baba
removed his few goods openly to the widow’s
house; but the money he had taken from the
robbers he conveyed thither by night. Soon after
the marriage with his sister-in-law was published,
and, as these marriages are common, nobody was
surprised.

As for Cassim’s warehouse, Ali Baba gave it to
his own eldest son, promising that if he man-
aged it well he would soon give him a fortune
to marry very advantageously according to his
situation. :

Let us now leave Ali Baba to enjoy the begin-
ning of his good fortune, and return to the
forty robbers.

They came again at the appointed time to
visit their retreat in the forest; but great -was
their surprise to find Cassim’s body taken away,
with some of their bags of gold. ‘We are cer-
tainly discovered,” said the captain, “and if we
do not speedily apply some remedy, shall gradu-
ally lose all the riches which our ancestors and
ourselves have, with so much pains and danger,
been so many years amassing together. All
that we can think of the loss which we have
sustained is, that the thief whom we surprised
had the secret of opening the door, and we came