` The peri-king ordered me to be burnt , and said : `` Why have you , a man , done this perfidious thing in my house ? '' His demons and peris . collected amber-wood and made a pile , and would have set me on it , when I remembered the word of life which the two peris . I had rescued had breathed into my ear , and I asked that my body might be rubbed with oil to release me the sooner from torture . This was allowed , and those two contrived to be the anointers . I was put into the fire and it was kept up for seven days and nights . By the will of the Great King it left no trace upon me . At the end of a week the pert-king ordered the ashes to be cast upon the dust-heap , and I was found alive and unharmed . ` Peris who had seen Gul consumed by her love for me now interceded with the king , and said : `` It is clear that your daughter 's fortunes are bound up with his , for the fire has not hurt him . It is best to give him the girl , for they love one another . He is King of Waq of Qaf , and you will find none better . '' ` To this the king agreed , and made formal marriage between Gul and me . You now know the price I paid for this faithless creature . O prince ! remember our compact . ' ' I remember , ' said the prince ; ` but tell me what brought Queen Gul to her present pass ? ' ` One night , ' continued King Sinaubar , ' I was aroused by feeling Gul 's hands and feet , deadly cold , against my body . I asked her where she had been to get so cold , and she said she had had to go out . Next morning , when I went to my stable I saw that two of my horses , Windfoot and Tiger , were thin and worn out . I reprimanded the groom and beat him .
He asked where his fault lay , and said that every XXXXX my wife took one or other of these horses and rode away , and came back only just before dawn .
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