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They sat down, and the princess told the prince the resolution she
came to, in the field where they encamped the last time they were
together, as soon as she perceived that she waited for him to no
purpose; how she went through with it till she arrived at the Isle
of Ebony, where she had been obliged to marry the Princess
Haiatalnefous, and accept the crown which King Armanos offered her
as a condition of the marriage: how the princess, whose merit she
highly extolled, had kept the secret, and how she found the
talisman in the pots of olives mingled with the gold dust, and how
the finding it was the cause of her sending for him to the city of
the idolaters.
The Princess Badoura and Prince Camaralzaman rose next morning as
soon as it was light, but the princess would no more put on her
royal robes as king; she dressed herself in the dress of a woman,
and then sent the chief chamberlain to King Armanos, her father-in-
law to desire he would be so good as to come to her apartment.
When the king entered the chamber, he was amazed to see there a
lady who was unknown to him, and the high treasurer with her, who
was not permitted to come within the inner palace. He sat down and
asked where the king was.
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