As soon as she set her eyes
on the prince, for whom she had shed so many tears, she knew him in
his gardener's clothes. As for the prince, who trembled in the
presence of a king, as he thought her, to whom he was to answer for
an imaginary debt, it did not enter into his head that the person
whom he so earnestly desired to see stood before him. If the
princess had followed the dictates of her inclination, she would
have run to him and embraced him, but she put a constraint on
herself, believing that it was for the interest of both that she
should act the part of a king a little longer before she made
herself known. She contented herself for the present with putting
him into the hands of an officer, who was then in waiting, with a
charge to take care of him till the next day.
When the Princess Badoura had provided for Prince Camaralzaman, she
turned to the captain, whom she was now to reward for the important
service he had done her. She commanded another officer to go
immediately and take the seal off the warehouse where his and his
merchants' goods were, and gave him a rich diamond, worth much more
than the expense of both his voyages. She bade him besides keep the
thousand pieces of gold she had given him for the pots of olives,
telling him she would make up the account with the merchant
herself.
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