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So he said, "By Allah, I will do a deed such as none hath ever

done before me!"; and he took reed-pen and ink and drew upon a

sheet of paper the plan of the whole house, showing whereabouts

was the private chamber with the curtain in such a place and the

furniture in such another and so on with all that was in the

room. Then he folded up the sketch and, causing all the furniture

to be collected, he took Badr al-Din's garments and the turband

and Fez and robe and purse, and carried the whole to his house

and locked them up, against the coming of his nephew, Badr al-Din

Hasan, the son of his lost brother, with an iron padlock on which

he set his seal. As for the Wazir's daughter, when her tale of

months was fulfilled, she bare a son like the full moon, the

image of his father in beauty and loveliness and fair proportions

and perfect grace.