The sultan called their head aside, and says, good Sheik, it may be you know already the cause of my coming hither.  Yes, sir, replies he, very gravely; if I do not mistake it, it is the disease of the princess which procures me this honour that I have not deserved.  That is the very thing, replied the sultan.  You will give me new life, if your prayers, as I hope they will, can procure my daughter’s health.  Sir, said the good man, if your majesty will be pleased to let her come hither, I am in hopes, that through God’s assistance and favour, she shall return in perfect health.

The prince, transported with joy, sent immediately to fetch his daughter, who very soon appeared with a numerous train of ladies and eunuchs, but masked, so that her face was not seen.  The chief of the dervizes caused a pall to be held over her head, and he had no sooner thrown the seven tufts of hair upon the burning coal, than the genie Maimoun, the son of Demdim, gave a great cry, without any thing being seen, and left the princess at liberty; upon which she took the veil from off her face, and rose up to see where she was, saying, Where am I, and who brought me hither?  At these words, the sultan, overcome with excess of joy, embraced his daughter, and kissed her eyes; he also kissed the chief of the dervize’s hands, and said to his officers, Tell me your opinion, what reward does he deserve who has cured my daughter?  They all cried, he deserves her in marriage.  That is what I had in my thoughts, said the sultan; and I make him my son-in-law from this moment.  Some time after, the prime vizier died, and the sultan conferred the place on the dervize.  The sultan himself died without heirs-male; upon which the religious orders and the militia gathered together, and the honest man was declared and acknowledged sultan by general consent.

The honest dervize, being mounted on the throne of his father-in-law, as he was one day in the midst of his courtiers upon a march, espied the envious man among the crowd of people that stood as he passed along, and calling one of his viziers that attended him, whispered him in the ear thus:  Go bring me that man you see there, but take care you do not frighten him.  The vizier obeyed, and when the envious man was brought into his presence, the sultan said, Friend, I am extremely glad to see you.  Upon which he called an officer:  Go immediately, says he, and cause to be paid this man out of my treasury one hundred pieces of gold; let him have also twenty load of the richest merchandise in my store-houses, and a sufficient guard to conduct him to his house.  After he had given this charge to the officer, he bade the envious man farewell, and proceeded on his march.

When I had finished the recital of this story to the genie, the murderer of the princess of the isle of Ebone, I made the application to himself thus:  O genie! you see here that this bountiful sultan did not content himself with forgetting the design of the envious man to take away his life, but treated him kindly, and sent him back with all the favours which I just now related.  In short, I made use of all my eloquence, prayed him to imitate such a good example, and to grant me pardon; but it was impossible for me to move his compassion.