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Rh "As Allah lives, I have; this day a young man led me here the only one who would lend me any assistance, whilst everyone else I asked was hurrying to the palace, and would not stop for me that young man is thy brother."

Everyone Present began to think the old man was mad, and Sukorini loudly protested against the manner in which he had been spoken of, and entreated his father to have the seer sent away from the palace. But the king, whose heart yearned for the presence of his good and favourite child, paying no heed to these outbursts, commanded that the young man who had accompanied the venerable seer should be brought before him.

When Gandohl entered, he was so disguised that even his own father did not recognise him; and he approached the throne amid the half-suppressed jeers of the assembled multitude. Perceiving at a glance how matters stood, he felt that the moment was a critical one for him. Advanc-