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 16                   oil, he ran hastily to the rest, and found every one of his troop put to death in the same manner. Full of rage and despair at                   having failed in his design, he forced the lock of a door that led to a garden, and made his escape over the walls. On the following morning, Morgiana related to her master Ali Baba his wonder- ful deliverance from the pretended oil mer- chant and his gang of robbers. Ali Baba at first could scarcely credit her tale; but when he saw the robbers dead in the jars, he could not sufficiently praise her courage and sagacity; and without letting any one else into the secret, he and Morgiana, the next night, buried the thirty-seven thieves in a deep trench at the bottom of the gar- den. The jars and the mules as he had no                   use for them, were sent from time to time to the different markets and sold. While Ali Baba took these measures to                   prevent the public from knowing how he                    came by his riches in so short a time, the captain of the forty robbers returned to                   the forest, in most inconceivable mortifica- tion; and in the agitation, or rather con- fusion, he was in at his success, so contrary to what he had promised himself, he entered the cave, not being able, all the way from the town, to come to any resolution what to                   do to Ali Baba.