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Thou art a handsome youth, but who will pity thee after this?" "O

my master" said I, "bear with me but two days or three, till I

find me another place." He answered, "So be it." and went away

and left me. I returned to the house where I sat weeping and

saying, How shall I go back to my own people with my hand lopped

off and they know not that I am innocent? Perchance even after

this Allah may order some matter for me." And I wept with

exceeding weeping, grief beset me and I remained in sore trouble

for two days; but on the third day my landlord came suddenly in

to me, and with him some of the guard and the Syndic of the

bazar, who had falsely charged me with stealing the necklet.