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 And with these words she asked for leave and departed.

Now, after several days had passed without any other troubles, and he had forgotten again the tragic misfortunes that had happened to him, the counselor returned to his old game with the evil Sultana. Rammo, who had not stopped thinking about it, noticed this, and fiercely indignant, he became very angry. "Now it is time to act," he said to himself, "and take complete and firm revenge upon this wicked, perfidious counselor who had brought so much dishonor to the Sultan, his father. And he did not want to let anything whatever it may be, shake his resolve. And he left the house in his usual form of the old woman and met a rather poor elderly man whom he approached and befriended and invited several times to his home for a meal. One day he talked with him about his poverty.

Rammo said, "Brother, because I see how great your need is, I want to teach you something, which I can assure you, that if you can do it will make you very rich in a single day. The good man thanked Rammo greatly for this and asked him kindly to teach him this secret. "You know," Rammo said, "that the Sultan is in the habit of having a weekly public audience on Thursday for everybody, where his counselor is always present. Then, when you are at the tribunal of the Lord, you will say in a loud voice to the counselor that while he is close to the Sultan in a high and honored rank,