' The money was accordingly, paid, and
the pots carried to the palace in her presence.
Night was drawing on when the princess withdrew into the inner
palace, and went to the Princess Haiatalnefous' apartment, ordering
the fifty pots of olives to be brought thither. She opened one, to
let the Princess Haiatalnefous taste them, and poured them into a
dish. Great was her astonishment when she found the olives mingled
with gold-dust. 'What can this mean?' said she, 'it is wonderful
beyond comprehension.' Her curiosity increasing, she ordered
Haiatalnefous' women to open and empty all the pots in her
presence; and her wonder was still greater, when she saw that the
olives in all of them were mixed with gold-dust; but when she saw
her talisman drop out of that into which the prince had put it, she
was so surprised that she fainted away. The Princess Haiatalnefous
and her women restored the Princess Badoura by throwing cold water
on her face. When she recovered her senses, she took the talisman
and kissed it again and again; but not being willing that the
Princess Haiatalnefous's women, who were ignorant of her disguise,
should hear what she said, she dismissed them.
'Princess,' said she to Haiatalnefous, as soon as they were gone,
'you, who have heard my story, surely guessed that it was at the
sight of the talisman that I fainted.
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