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So the Wazir sent for the Kazi and legal witnesses and they wrote

out the marriage-contract, after which the slaves perfumed the

guests with incense, [FN#381] and served them with sherbet of

sugar and sprinkled rose-water on them and all went their ways.

Then the Wazir bade his servants take Nur al-Din to the

Hammam-baths and sent him a suit of the best of his own especial

raiment, and napkins and towelry and bowls and perfume-burners

and all else that was required. After the bath, when he came out

and donned the dress, he was even as the full moon on the

fourteenth night; and he mounted his mule and stayed not till he

reached the Wazir's palace. There he dismounted and went in to

the Minister and kissed his hands, and the Wazir bade him

welcome.-And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to

say her permitted say.

When it was the Twenty-first Night,