The Queen, walking with the Prince, said, “Which is the house?”
Having said, “There, that house,” the Prince stretched out his hand towards the royal palace.
With the thoughts, “I shall be worn away with fear, I shall be worn away. Anē! The thing that this foolish boy has done! Having said that he gave him a quartz stone, the King, in order to appoint [the punishment for] his fault, told me to come here,” she reached the royal palace.
Thereupon the King having seen her, becoming much pleased, asked, “Whence didst thou obtain this stone?”
Then the Queen began to tell him everything,—the way in which she made the bet with that King, the way in which she came away, the way in which she bore Then the King said, “This is a gem-stone. Putting me [out of consideration], having appointed any person you like, he cannot state the value of this. I have not got even wealth [sufficient] to give for this. Because of it, having given to thee the wealth, too, thou hast not a place to put it in. Therefore stay ye in my palace itself until the Prince, having become big, marries a Princess.” Having made ready and given them a good room, and given them the royal victuals, he made the two remain there. While they are staying there, having prepared two bracelets for the King’s Queen, because there was not a stone more to [match] that stone for fixing in the two bracelets, he asked the Queen who gave the stone, “Canst thou find and bring a stone more, like this stone?” The Queen said, “I cannot go. If there be still [any] in the river, or what, I do not know.” Then the Queen’s Prince said to the King, “I can.”