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 The raja, still laughing, said, "My good lady, great people like me are fond of such mystifications. Now tell me. Six years ago, did you not find half of a torn scrap of paper among your jewels? Have you got it still?"

"Maharaj, your highness is omniscient, after all! I have got the paper by me still."

"Well, then," said the raja, "get into the palanquin again, go home, and fetch me the paper. When you have brought it to me I will tell you everything."

  Hiranmayi, in obedience to the raja's commands, entered her palanquin, returned home, and having procured the torn scrap of paper of which we have already spoken, conveyed it to the raja, who, after carefully examining it, produced a similar fragment and gave it to Hiranmayi. He told her to put the two pieces of paper together. On doing so, she found that the two edges fitted one another. 