Then a servant fetched in the polluted , blue-eyed headsman , who asked : ` Whose sun of life has come near its setting ? ' took the prince by the arm , placed him upon the cloth of execution , and then , all merciless and stony hearted , cut his head from his body and hung it on the battlements . The news of the death of Prince Tahmasp plunged his father into despair and stupefaction . He mourned for him in black raiment for forty days ; and then , a few days later , his second son , Prince Qamas , extracted from him leave to go too ; and he , also , was put to death . One son only now remained , the brave , eloquent , happy-natured Prince Almas-ruh-bakhsh . One day , when his father sat brooding over his lost children , Almas came before him and said : ' O father mine ! the daughter of King Quimus has done my two brothers to death ; I wish to avenge them upon her . ' These words brought his father to tears . ' O light of your father ! ' he cried , ' I have no one left but you , and now you ask me to let you go to your death . ' ` Dear father ! ' pleaded the prince , ` until I have lowered the pride of that beauty , and have set her here before you , I can not settle down or indeed sit down off my feet . ' In the end he , too , got leave to go ; but he went a without a following and alone . Like his brothers , he made the long journey to the city of Quimus the son of Timus ; like them he saw the citadel , but he saw there the heads of Tahmasp and Qamas . He went about in the city , saw the tent and the drums , and then went out again to a village not far off . Here he found out a very old man who had a wife 120 years old , or rather more . Their lives were coming to their end , but they had never beheld face of child of their own . They were glad when the prince came to their house , and they dealt with him as with a son . 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 XXXXX its eastern oratory , he went again into the city .
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