arose and cooked a tasse of broth and mingled with it sundry hot spices such as pimento[FN#180] and she had certain leaflets taken from the so-called Wind tree,[FN#181] whereof she inserted a small portion deftly mingling the ingredients.  Then the old woman took it and set forth and walked till she reached the Basha’s mansion where the servants and eunuchs met her and asked her of what was with her.  She answered, “This is a tasse of broth which I have brought for the Basha that he drink of it as much as he may fancy; haply Almighty Allah shall vouchsafe healing to him.”  They went in and reported that to the Basha who exclaimed, “Bring her to me hither.”  Accordingly, they led her within and she offered to him the tasse of broth, whereupon he rose and sat upright and removed the cover from the cup which sent forth a pleasant savour:  so he took it and sipped of it a spoonful and a second and a third, when his heart opened to her and he drank of it till he could no more.  Now this was in the forenoon and after finishing the soup he gave the old woman a somewhat of dinars which she took and returned therewith to the damsel rejoicing, and handed to her the gold pieces.  But the Basha immediately after drinking the broth felt drowsy and he slept a restful sleep till mid-afternoon and when he awoke health had returned to his frame beginning from the time he drank.  So he asked after the ancient dame and sent her word to prepare for him another tasse of broth like the first; but they told him that none knew her dwelling-place.  Now when the old woman returned home the maiden asked her whether the broth had pleased the Basha or not; and she said that it was very much to his liking; so the girl got ready a second portion but without all the stronger ingredients[FN#182] of the first.  Then she gave it to the dame who took it and went forth with it and whilst the Basha was asking for her behold, up she came and the servants took her and led her in to the Governor.  On seeing her he rose and sat upright and called for other food and when it was brought he ate his sufficiency, albeit for a length of time he could neither rise nor walk.  But from the hour he drank all the broth he sniffed the scent of health and he could move about as he moved when hale and hearty.  So he asked the old dame saying, “Didst thou cook this broth?” and she answered, “O my lord, my daughter made it and sent me with it to thee.”  He exclaimed, “By Allah this maiden cannot be thy daughter, O old woman; and she can be naught save the daughter of Kings.  But bid her every day at morning-tide cook me a tasse of the same broth.”  The other replied, “To hear is to obey,” and returned home with this message to the damsel who did as the Basha bade the first day and the second to the seventh day.  And the Basha waxed stronger every day and when the week was ended he took horse and rode to his pleasure-garden.  He increased continually in force and vigour till, one day of the days, he sent for the dame and questioned her concerning