Verily，thy son's wits are fled and he hath gone mad，he hath dealt with me thus and thus，so that I am become as thou seest me，and he kept saying，'A young lady lay with me this night and stole away secretly whilst I slept. Where is she？' And he insisteth on my letting him know where she is and on my telling him who took her away. But I have seen neither girl nor boy：the door was locked all through the night，for I slept before it with the key under my head，and I opened to him in the morning with my own hand. When King Shahriman heard this，he cried out，saying，'Alas，my son！；'and he was enraged with sore rage against the Wazir，who had been the cause of all this case and said to him，'Go up，bring me news of my son and see what hath befallen his mind.'So the Wazir rose and，stumbling over his long skirts，in his fear of the King's wrath，hastened with the slave to the tower. Now the sun had risen and when the Minister came in to Kamar alZaman，he found him sitting on the couch reciting the Koran；so he saluted him and seated himself by his side，and said to him，'O my lord，this wretched eunuch brought us tidings which troubled and alarmed us and which incensed the King.'Asked Kamar alZaman，'And what hath he told you of me to trouble my father？
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