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Aidance and victory to all who the Truth believe; and

disappointment and disgrace to all who the religion of Mohammed,

the Moon of Faith, unbelieve." The speaker was the Princess who

had burnt the Ifrit, and he was become a heap of ashes. Then she

came up to us and said, "Reach me a cup of water." They brought

it to her and she spoke over it words we understood not, and

sprinkling me with it cried, "By virtue of the Truth, and by the

Most Great name of Allah, I charge thee return to thy former

shape." And behold, I shook, and became a man as before, save

that I had utterly lost an eye. Then she cried out, "The fire!

The fire! O my dear papa an arrow from the accursed hath wounded

me to the death, for I am not used to fight with the Jann; had he

been a man I had slain him in the beginning. I had no trouble

till the time when the pomegranate burst and the grains

scattered, but I overlooked the seed wherein was the very life of

the Jinni.