"Myself: 'What is the Nadir Bandar, Sheikh Al-Abbas? I have not heard of it.'
"The Sheikh: 'There is but one who has heard of it, and he will die with the coming of the sun.'
"Myself: 'It is a great power if it can grant such wishes as you name.'
"The Sheikh: 'There is no wish that it cannot grant. Four times may a man call upon it and four times will it answer. With its aid my ancestor, Nadir Shah, conquered the entire world.'
"Myself: 'If he possessed such a power, Sheikh Al-Abbas, why did he allow himself to be slain?'
"The Sheikh: 'Four times had he called on it and four times had it answered.'
"Myself: 'You mean that its power had passed away?'
"The Sheikh: 'He had buried it at the meeting of the waters. His last wish had been that he might win the world and gain the mountain of light. When this was granted he buried it beneath the great sun stone at the meeting of the waters. After that he was slain.'
"Myself: 'And where is the meeting of the waters, Sheikh Al-Abbas?'
"The Sheikh: 'I cannot say. All that I know I was told by my father, who had had it from his father before him.'