Then she went out and opened the house-door when behold, the carpenter entered and saluted her.  Quoth she, “What manner of thing is this cabinet thou hast made me?” “What aileth it, O my lady?” asked he, and she answered, “The top compartment is too strait.”  Rejoined he, “Not so;” and she, “Go in thyself and see; it is not wide enough for thee.”  Quoth he, “It is wide enough for four,” and entered the fifth compartment, whereupon she locked the door on him.  Then she took the letter of the Chief of Police and carried it to the treasurer who, having read and understood it, kissed it and delivered her lover to her.  She told him all she had done and he said, “And how shall we act now?” She answered, “We will remove hence to another city, for after this work there is no tarrying for us here.”  So the twain packed up what goods they had and, loading them on camels, set out forthright for another city.  Meanwhile, the five abode each in his compartment of the cabinet without eating or drinking three whole days, during which time they held their water until at last the carpenter could retain his no longer; so he staled on the King’s head, and the King urined on the Wazir’s head, and the Wazir piddled on the Wali and the Wali pissed on the head of the Kazi; whereupon the Judge cried out and said, “What nastiness[FN#213] is this?  Doth not what strait we are in suffice us, but you must make water upon us?"’ The Chief of Police recognised the Kazi’s voice and answered, saying aloud, “Allah increase thy reward, O Kazi!” And when the Kazi heard him, he knew him for the Wali.  Then the Chief of Police lifted up his voice and said, “What means this nastiness?” and the Wazir answered, saying, “Allah increase thy reward, O Wali!” whereupon he knew him to be the Minister.  Then the Wazir lifted up his voice and said, “What means this nastiness?” But when the King heard and recognised his Minister’s voice, he held his peace and concealed his affair.  Then said the Wazir, “May God damn[FN#214] this woman for her dealing with us!  She hath brought hither all the Chief Officers of the state, except the King.”  Quoth the King, “Hold your peace, for I was the first to fall into the toils of this lewd strumpet.”  Whereat cried the carpenter, “And I, what have I done?  I made her a cabinet for four gold pieces, and when I came to seek my hire, she tricked me into entering this compartment and locked the door on me.”  And they fell to talking with one another, diverting the King and doing away his chagrin.  Presently the neighbours came up to the house and, seeing it deserted, said one to other, “But yesterday our neighbour, the wife of such an one, was in it; but now no sound is to be heard therein nor is soul to be seen.  Let us break open the doors and see how the case stands, lest it come to the ears of the Wali or the King and we be cast into prison and regret not doing this thing before.”  So they broke open the doors and entered the saloon, where they saw a large wooden cabinet and heard men within groaning for hunger and thirst.  Then said one of them, “Is there a Jinni in this cabinet?” and his fellow, “Let us heap fuel about it and burn it with fire.”  When the Kazi heard this, he bawled out to them, “Do it not!”—­And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.