and gave them joy of their safety; after which he despatched a messenger to his brother, to let him know that his daughter was found and was with him.  As soon as the news reached Taj al-Muluk he gat him ready and assembling his troops set out for his brother’s capital, where he found his daughter and they rejoiced with exceeding joy.  He sojourned with his brother a week, after which he took his daughter and Sayf al-Muluk and returned to Sarandib, where the Princess foregathered with her mother and they rejoiced at her safe return; and held high festival and that day was a great day, never was seen its like.  As for Sayf al-Muluk, the King entreated him with honour and said to him, “O Sayf al-Muluk, thou hast done me and my daughter all this good for which I cannot requite thee nor can any requite thee, save the Lord of the three Worlds; but I wish thee to sit upon the throne in my stead and rule the land of Hind, for I offer thee of my throne and kingdom and treasures and servants, all this in free gift to thee.”  Whereupon Sayf al-Muluk rose and kissing the ground before the King, thanked him and answered, “O King of the Age, I accept all thou givest me and return it to thee in freest gift; for I, O King of the Age, covet not sovranty nor sultanate nor desire aught but that Allah the Most High bring me to my desire.”  Rejoined the King, “O Sayf al-Muluk these my treasures are at thy disposal:  take of them what thou wilt, without consulting me, and Allah requite thee for me with all weal!” Quoth the Prince, “Allah advance the King!  There is no delight for me in money or in dominion till I win my wish:  but now I have a mind to solace myself in the city and view its thoroughfares and market-streets.”  So the King bade bring him a mare of the thoroughbreds, saddled and bridled; and Sayf al-Muluk mounted her and rode through the streets and markets of the city.  As he looked about him right and left, lo! his eyes fell on a young man, who was carrying a tunic and crying it for sale at fifteen dinars:  so he considered him and saw him to be like his brother Sa’id; and indeed it was his very self, but he was wan of blee and changed for long strangerhood and the travails of travel, so that he knew him not.  However, he said to his attendants, “Take yonder youth and carry him to the palace where I lodge, and keep him with you till my return from the ride when I will question him.”  But they understood him to say, “Carry him to the prison,” and said in themselves “Haply this is some runaway Mameluke of his.”  So they took him and bore him to the bridewell, where they laid him in irons and left him seated in solitude, unremembered by any.  Presently Sayf al-Muluk returned to the palace, but he forgot his brother Sa’id, and none made mention of him.  So he abode in prison, and when they brought out the prisoners, to cut ashlar from the quarries they took Sa’id with them, and he wrought with the rest.  He abode a month’s space, in this squalor and sore sorrow, pondering his case