THE TALISMAN OF SOLOMON

the ground, and Aben Hassen the Fool found himself at
the end of what appeared to be a vast and splendid
garden.
“We are now,” said Zadok, “above the treasure-house
of which I spoke. It was here that 1 saw thy father ‘seal
it so that no one but the master of Zadok may enter.

 

Thou mayst go in any time it may please thee, for it is
thine.”

“J would enter into it now,” said Aben Hassen the
Fool.

“Thou shalt enter,” said Zadok, He stooped, and with
his finger-point he drew a circle upon the ground where
they stood; then he stamped with his heel upon the circle.
Instantly the earth opened, and there appeared a flight of
marble steps leading downward into the earth. Zadok

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