Two or three days after, the Princess Badoura, that he might be
nearer to her, and in a more distinguished post, made him high
treasurer, which office had lately become vacant. He behaved
himself in his new charge with so much integrity, yet obliging
everybody, that he not only gained the friendship of the great but
also the affections of the people, by his uprightness and bounty.
Camaralzaman would have been the happiest man in the world, if he
had had his princess with him. In the midst of his good fortune he
never ceased lamenting her, and grieved that he could hear no
tidings of her, especially in a country where she must necessarily
have come on her way to his father's court after their separation.
He would have suspected something had the Princess Badoura still
gone by the name of Camaralzaman, but on her accession to the
throne she changed it, and took that of Armanos, in honour of the
old king her father-in-law. She was now known only by the name of
the young King Armanos. There were very few courtiers who knew that
she had ever been called Camaralzaman, which name she assumed when
she arrived at the court of the Isle of Ebony, nor had Camaralzaman
so much acquaintance with any of them yet as to learn more of her
history.
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