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49 to succour her against that unbelieving miscreant and deliver her from the torment she suffered from him. Then she wrote a letter to Mesrour, setting forth to him all that the Jew had done with her from first to last and ending with the following verses:

Then she folded the letter and gave it to her maid Huboub, saying, ‘Keep it in thy pocket, till we send it to Mesrour.’

Presently in came the Jew and seeing them joyous, said to them, ‘How comes it that I find you merry? Hath a letter reached you from your friend Mesrour?’ ‘We have no helper against thee save God, blessed and exalted be He!’ replied Zein el Mewasif. ‘He will deliver us from thy tyranny, and except thou restore to us our country and home, we will complain of thee to-morrow to the Cadi and governor of this town.’ Quoth VOL. VIII.