"Painter, is this your daughter?"
"O my lord, king of the world, yes, this is my daughter."
"Come with me into the interior of the palace." And at the same time the prince started and entered his apartments, followed by the daughter of the painter. He led the way to a retired place, and said: "My daughter, make my portrait, I pray you, and try to have the resemblance good." Then the princess Djouher-Manikam clothed herself in woman's raiment, and in this costume she was ravishingly beautiful. That done, she commanded the artist to paint her thus. She succeeded perfectly and the portrait was a remarkable likeness, for the daughter of the painter was very skilful. When her work was finished she received a large sum in gold. The prince said to her:
"Come, sister, let this remain a secret. Reveal it not to anyone in the world. If you tell it I will slay you, with your father and your mother."
The daughter of the painter said: "O my lord, king of the world, how could your servant disobey your Majesty's commands?"
She bowed low, and asked permission to go home.
Radja Chah Djouhou, in the presence of his ministers and his subjects, said to the vizier: "O vizier, place this portrait in the baley outside the fort, and have it guarded by forty men. If anyone coming to this portrait begins to weep or kiss it, seize him and bring him before me." The portrait hung in the baley, and the vezir ordered an officer to guard it with forty soldiers.
When the Æthiopian robber came out of his drunken slumber he saw that the princess Djouher-Manikam was no longer in his house. So he went out-of-doors weeping, and took up his journey, going from country to country until he arrived at the city of Roum. There he saw a baley, and hanging there a portrait which bore a perfect resemblance to the princess Djouher-Manikam. Quickly he climbed to the baley, and, holding the portrait in his arms, he wept and covered it with kisses.
"O unhappy man that I am! Here is the portrait of my well-beloved for whom I was seeking. Where can she be?"
The guards of the baley, seeing the act of the Æthiopian, seized him and bore him before the King. They told the deed.