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I looked down from the window and saw this Barber (Allah's curse

upon him!) sitting over against the door and said, "How did this

devil find me out?" At this very moment, as Allah had decreed it

for rending my veil of secrecy, it so happened that a handmaid of

the house master committed some offence for which he beat her.

She shrieked out and his slave ran in to intercede for her,

whereupon the Kazi beat him to boot, and he also roared out. The

damned Barber fancied that it was I who was being beaten; so he

also fell to shouting and tore his garments and scattered dust on

his head and kept on shrieking and crying "Help !