words, hastened to fold him in her arms and kissed him,
saying: "O
my dearling, all this is for my love to thee and I knew naught
thereof, but indeed I do not deem
lightly of thine affection." So
Aladdin kissed her and strained her to his breast, and the love
between them waxed but greater. At that moment the Sultan appeared,
and they told him all that had happened, showing him the
corpse of the
Maghrabi, the necromancer, when the King commanded the body to be
burned and the ashes scattered on air, even as had
befallen the
wizard's brother.
And Aladdin abode with his wife, the Lady Badr al-Budur, in all
pleasure and joyaunce of life, and thenceforward escaped every danger,
and after a while, when the Sultan deceased, his son-in-law was seated
upon the
throne of the kingdom. And he commanded and dealt justice
to the lieges so that all the folk loved him, and he lived with his
wife in all
solace and happiness until there came to him the Destroyer
of delights and the Severer of societies.
And a tale is also told about