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This came from the gratuitous lying of the slave, the blackamoor,

and this was the manner of my killing her; so I conjure thee, by

the honour of thine ancestors, make haste to kill me and do her

justice upon me, as there is no living for me after her!" The

Caliph marvelled at his words and said, "By Allah, the young man

is excusable: I will hang none but the accursed slave and I will

do a deed which shall comfort the ill-at-ease and suffering, and

which shall please the All-glorious King."-And Shahrazad

perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say,

When it was the Twentieth Night,