Appoint another hunting-match, and when we are out of town with your court and mine, we will rest under our tents, and at night let you and I return unattended to my apartments. I am certain the next day you will see a repetition of the scene.” The sultan approving the stratagem, immediately appointed another hunting-match. And that same day the tents were pitched at the place appointed. The next day the two princes set out with all their retinue; they arrived at the place of encampment, and stayed there till night. Shierear then
and having bathed together in a great piece of water, which was one of the chief ornaments of the garden, they dressed themselves, and reentered the palace by the secret door, all except Masoud, who climbed up his tree, and got over the garden wall as he had come in. These things having passed in the king of Tartary’s sight, filled him with a