“When he had done with all the rest, he led me into the garden, and into a neat and richly-ornamented private apartment, and he said to me, ‘Do you make your residence here,’ and went himself to his abode.  When forty days had elapsed, he came to me, and found me better comparatively with [what I had been] before.  He then, smiling, said, ’Amuse yourself by walking about in this garden, and eat whatever fruits you like.’  He gave me a china pot filled with ma’jun, [250] and added, ’Take without fail six mashas [251] from this pot every morning, fasting.’  Saying this, he went away, and I followed strictly his prescription.  My body perceptibly gained strength daily, and my mind composure, but mighty love was still triumphant; that fairy’s form ever wandered before my eyes.

“One day I perceived a book [252] in a recess in the wall; I took it down, and saw that all the sciences relating to the future and the present world were comprised in it, as if the ocean had been compressed into a vase.  I used to read it at all times; I acquired great skill in the science of physic, and the mystical art of philters.  A year passed away in the meantime, and again that same day of joy returned; the Gusa,in, having arisen from his devotional posture, came out [of his abode]; I made him my salam; he gave me the writing case, and said, ‘Accompany me.’  I [accordingly] went along with him.  When he came out of the gate a vast crowd showered blessings on him.  The nobleman and the merchant, seeing me with the Gusa,in, fell at his feet, and began to pour forth their blessings on him, saying, “by the favour of your holiness, this much at least has been effected.”  The Gusa,in went to the ghat of the river, according to custom, and performed his ablutions and devotions, as he was wont to do every year; returning [from thence], he was proceeding along the line and examining the sick.

“It happened, that in the group of lunatics, a handsome young man, who had scarce strength to stand up, attracted the Gusa,in’s attention.  He said to me, ‘Bring him with you.’  After delivering his prescriptions of cure to all, he went into his private apartment and opened a little of the young lunatic’s skull; he attempted to seize with his forceps the centipede which was curled on his brain.  An idea struck me, and I spoke out, saying, ’If you will heat the forceps in the fire, and then apply it to the centipede’s back, it will be better, as it will then come out of its own accord; but if you thus attempt to pull it off, it will not quit its grasp on the brain, and [the patient’s] life will be endangered.’ [253] On hearing this, the Gusa,in looked towards me; silently he rose up, and, without saying a word, he went to the corner of the garden, and seizing a tree in his grasp, he formed his long hair into a noose, and hanged himself.  I went to the spot, and saw, alas! alas! that he was dead.  I became