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He is my husband and if thou believe me not, there are his

turband, twisted as it was, lying on the settle and his dagger

and his trousers beneath the bed with a something, I wot not

what, wrapped up in them." When her father heard this he entered

the private chamber and found the turband which had been left

there by Badr al-Din Hasan, his brother's son, and he took it in

hand and turned it over, saying, "This is the turband worn by

Wazirs, save that it is of Mosul stuff." [FN#442] So he opened it

and, finding what seemed to be an amulet sewn up in the Fez, he

unsewed the lining and took it out; then he lifted up the

trousers wherein was the purse of the thousand gold pieces and,

opening that also, found in it a written paper. This he read and

it was the sale-receipt of the Jew in the name of Badr al-Din

Hasan, son of Nur al-Din Ali, the Egyptian; and the thousand

dinars were also there.