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vas unknown to me, and that neither the king your father nor
I sent you the lady you mention.”

The prince would hear no more. “Go,” said he angrily,
“and tell my father that I will marry the lady whom he sent or
brought me, and who was here last night. Be expeditious, and
bring me the answer.”

On hearing the vizier’s account of the interview, Schahzaman
himself repaired to the tower in company with the vizier.

Prince Camaralzaman then told the king in what manner he
had waked in the night. He gave him a description of the
beauty of the lady he had found by his side, and confessed the
love which he had so instantaneously felt for her. He did not
even conceal the exchange of his ring for that of the lady. When
he concluded, he took the ring from his finger, and presented it
to the king. “Sire,” added he, “mine is not unknown to you,
for you have seen it several times. After this I hope you will
be convinced that I have not lost my senses, as they would fain
persuade you is the case.”

“ After what I have now heard, my son,” replied King Schah-
zaman, “and what I see by this ring, I can no longer doubt the
reality of your love, and that you did absolutely see the lady
who gave birth to it. Would that I knew her! You should be
gratified this very day, and I should be the happiest of fathers.
But where am I to seek her? How and by what means could
she enter here without either my consent or knowledge?”

Schahzaman then took the prince with him to the palace,
where, quite in despair at fecling a passion for an unknown
lady, he instantly took to his bed. The king shut himself
up from all society for several days to weep with his son,
and desisted entirely from attending to the usual concerns
of his kingdom. While these things were passing in the
capital of King Schahzaman, the two genii, Danhasch and
Caschcasch, had reconducted the princess of China to the
palace, where the king her father had confined her.

The next morning when she awoke, the princess of China
looked about on each side of her, and when she perceived
that Prince Camaralzaman was no longer near her, she called
her women in a voice which made them all run quickly to her,
and surround her. Her nurse approached her pillow, and asked
her what she desired. and if anything had befallen her.