"If she loves you, it shall be so," replied the King, and she did love him; they were married, and Ahmed became the King's Prime Minister.
THE KING'S TREASURE
The King's Treasure
Accurately relating how a marked advance in material and political
prosperity accrued to Abdul Karim, and the part played by
a monarch whose philosophy included the immediate
advancement of a worthy subject.
LABORING man named Abdul Karim, with his wife, Zeeba—"the beautiful one"—lived in a sheltered valley, surrounded by hills, the sides of which were covered with fine gardens, in which the peach, the grape, the mulberry, and other delicious fruits grew in great profusion.