After that, this Minister went away. Having gone, he said to the King of the city, “The Queen got hid, and went off with another man.”
This Queen thinking, “What is it that he has killed that Prince! My womb has not become barren,” descended from the tree, and having gone through the chena jungle to a cemetery at another city, came out into the open ground. Having come out, when she looked about a daughter of a Moorman (a resident of Arab descent) having died, he came near the grave in which she was buried, and saying and saying, “Arise, daughter; arise, daughter,” the man was weeping and weeping.
This Queen trickishly having stayed looking at it, and thinking, “It is good. This Moorman will come to-morrow also, and will weep here. Then, having been lying at the grave, when he is calling I will get up,” remained hidden there. After the man went away, she scraped away a little earth on the grave, and at the time when the man was coming she remained lying there.
The man having come, when he was calling, “Arise, daughter,” she said, “What is it, father?” and arose. Thereupon, the man having put on the face cloth,[2] closing her to the extent that [her face] should not be visible to anyone whatever, took her to the man’s house, and placed her on the floor of the upper story.
That Minister having gone back, and said that the Queen went off, at the very time when he was saying it, it caused the young younger brother of the King to seek the Queen, and he came away [for the purpose].
Having come away, and come seeking her through the whole of the various cities, and come also to the city at which is this Queen, while he was walking [through it] this Queen, who was on the floor of the upper story, saw him, and waved her hand to the Prince, and causing him to be brought, wrote a letter and threw it below from upstairs.
The Prince taking the letter, when he looked at it she said [in it] that the danger which had occurred to her was thus. [It continued], “Because of it, to-day night having brought a horse to such and such a place, and put on it two saddles, and made ready for both you and me to go off, come and speak to me.” So the Prince having made ready in that very manner, came at night, and [leaving the horse went near, and] spoke to the Queen.
Then the Queen, having descended from the floor of the upper room, and come running by another path, a man of the city who walks about at night, called Holman Pissā, was [there]. The man met her first.
After that, having gone holding the man’s hand, sitting on the back of the horse she gave him the whip, and told him to drive it along a good path. At that time, that Holman Pissā, owing to his insanity,[3] turned down a bye-path without speaking at all, and driving the horse they began to go away. As he was going driving it, it became light. There when the Queen looked the man was a madman.
In order to come away and save herself from the man, she said, “It is good. Now then, we two must get a living. Because of it, go and bring water for cooking.” The madman having said, “It is good,” went for water.