All the goods were removed from the boat and the image was found. Then the son returned as a slave to his father and was made keeper of the elephants.
Upon a day, the young wife of the son came to the chow and sought permission to go to the forest to find her husband.
Willingly did the chow say, “Go, my child,” and forthwith he had a boat put in readiness for [59 ] her and sent with her many of his servants. One servant was called, “Eye That Sees Well,” another, “Ear That Hears Well.”
Sailing down the river, they reached the province where the young man was searching for elephants, and there they remained.
The chow of the province sent a servant secretly to hide a golden image in the boat. But the “Ear That Hears Well” heard and the “Eye That Sees Well” saw, and together they took the image from the boat and hid it in the sand.
The following day, the chow sent a messenger asking why the princess had taken the image.
“I have not seen it,” were the words of the princess.
“If it is found in your boat, what will you promise?” asked the chow’s messenger.
“I and my servants will be slaves to him, if the image be found in my boat,” replied the princess, “but, should the image not be found there, what will your master promise?”
“All his goods and his province, if the image be not found,” readily answered the messenger.