He put all his belongings into their charge , and fastened his horse in their out-house . Then he asked them not to speak of him to anyone , and to keep his affairs secret . He exchanged his royal dress for another , and next morning , just as the sun looked forth from its eastern oratory , he went again into the city . He turned over in his mind without ceasing how he was to find out the meaning of the riddle , and to give them a right answer , and who could help him , and how to avenge his brothers . He wandered about the city , but heard nothing of service , for there was no one in all that land who understood the riddle of Princess Mihr-afruz . One day he thought he would go to her own palace and see if he could learn anything there , so he went out to her garden-house . It was a very splendid place , with a wonderful gateway , and walls like Alexander 's ramparts . Many gate-keepers were on guard , and there was no chance of passing them . His heart was full of bitterness , but he said to himself : ` All will be well ! it is here I shall get what I want . ' He went round outside the garden wall hoping to find a gap , and he made supplication in the Court of Supplications and prayed , ' O Holder of the hand of the helpless ! show me my way . ' While he prayed he bethought himself that he could get into the garden with a stream of inflowing water . He looked carefully round , fearing to be seen , stripped , slid into the stream and was carried within the great walls . There he hid himself till his loin cloth was dry . The garden was a very Eden , with running water amongst its lawns , with flowers and the lament of doves and the jug-jug of nightingales . It was a place to steal the senses from the brain , and he wandered about and saw the house , but there seemed to be no one there . In the forecourt was a royal seat of polished jasper , and in the middle of the platform was a basin of purest water that flashed like a mirror . He pleased himself with these sights for a while , and then went back to the garden and hid himself from the gardeners and passed the night . Next morning he put on the appearance of a madman and wandered about till he came to a lawn where several pert-faced girls were amusing themselves .
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