“Tellest thou me that he had the effrontery to demand the fulfilment of a pledge so spoken, O Es-Samit?”

“Alas!” replied the barber, with tears pouring like rain down the wrinkles of his aged cheek, “he lived with her the most joyous, and most agreeable, and most comfortable, and most pleasant life, until they were visited by the terminator of delights, and the separator of companions!”

THE END.