Immediately the cadi ran himself, opened the door, and asked what they wanted?  His venerable presence could not inspire them with respect:  they insolently said to him, You cursed cadi, you dog of a cadi, what reason have you to assassinate our master?  What has he done to you?  Good people, replied the cadi, for what should I assassinate your master, whom I do not know, and who has done no offence?  My house is open to you, come see and search.  You bastinadoed him, said the barber; I heard his cries not above a minute ago.  But pray, replies the cadi, what offence could your master do to me, to oblige me to use him after that rate?  Is he in my house?  If he is, how came he in, or who could have introduced him?  Ah! wretched cadi cried the barber, you and your long beard shall never make me believe what you say.  What I say I know to be true; your daughter is in love with our master, and gave him a meeting during the time of noon-prayers; you, without doubt, have had notice of it; you returned home, and surprised him, and made your slave bastinado him:  but this your wicked action shall not pass with impunity; the caliph shall be acquainted with it, and he shall give true and brief justice.  Let him come out; deliver him to us immediately:  or if you do not, we will go in and take him from you, to your shame.  There is no occasion for so many words, replied the cadi, nor to make so great a noise:  if what you say is true, go in and find him out, I give you free liberty.  Thereupon the barber and my domestics rushed into the house like furies, and looked for me all about.

When I heard all that the barber said to the cadi, I sought for a place to hide myself, and could find nothing but a great empty trunk, in which I lay down, and shut it upon me.  The barber, after he had searched every where, came into the chamber where I was, and opening the trunk, as soon as he saw me, he took it upon his head, and carried it away.  He came down a high stair-case into a court, which he went through very speedily, and got to the street.  While he carried me, the trunk unhappily opened, and I, not being able to endure to be exposed to the view and shouts of the mob that followed us, leaped out into the street with so much haste that I hurt my leg, so as I have been lame ever since.  I was not sensible how bad it was at first, and therefore got up quickly to get away from the people, who laughed at me; nay, I threw handfuls of gold and silver among them, and, whilst they were gathering it up, I made my escape by cross streets and alleys.  But the cursed barber, improving the stratagem that I made use of to get away from the mob, followed me close, crying, Stay, sir, why do you run so fast?  If you knew how much I am afflicted at the ill treatment you received from the cadi, you who are so generous a person, and to whom I and my friends are so much obliged!  Did not I tell you truly that you would expose your life by your obstinate refusal to let me go with you?  See now what has happened to you by your own fault; and if I had not resolutely followed you to see whither you went, what would have become of you?  Whither do you go then, sir? stay for me.