to making ready meat and drink; fruits, flowers and perfumes.  Now when the appointed trysting day came, she donned her costliest dress and adorned herself and scented herself, then spread the sitting-room with various kinds of rich carpets and sat down to await who should come.  And behold, the Kazi was the first to appear, devancing the rest, and when she saw him, she rose to her feet and kissed the ground before him; then, taking him by the hand, made him sit down by her on the couch and lay with him and fell to jesting and toying with him.  By and by, he would have her do his desire, but she said, “O my lord, doff thy clothes and turband and assume this yellow cassock and this head-kerchief,[FN#212] whilst I bring thee meat and drink; and after thou shalt win thy will.”  So saying, she took his clothes and turband and clad him in the cassock and the kerchief; but hardly had she done this, when lo! there came a knocking at the door.  Asked he, “Who is that rapping at the door?” and she answered, “My husband.”  Quoth the Kazi, “What is to be done, and where shall I go?” Quoth she, “Fear nothing, I will hide thee in this cabinet;” and he, “Do as seemeth good to thee.”  So she took him by the hand and pushing him into the lowest compartment, locked the door upon him.  Then she went to the house-door, where she found the Wali; so she bussed ground before him and taking his hand brought him into the saloon, where she made him sit down and said to him, “O my lord, this house is thy house; this place is thy place, and I am thy handmaid:  thou shalt pass all this day with me; wherefore do thou doff thy clothes and don this red gown, for it is a sleeping gown.”  So she took away his clothes and made him assume the red gown and set on his head an old patched rag she had by her; after which she sat by him on the divan and she sported with him while he toyed with her awhile, till he put out his hand to her.  Whereupon she said to him, “O our lord, this day is thy day and none shall share in it with thee; but first, of thy favour and benevolence, write me an order for my brother’s release from gaol that my heart may be at ease.”  Quoth he, “Hearkening and obedience:  on my head and eyes be it!”; and wrote a letter to his treasurer, saying, “As soon as this communication shall reach thee, do thou set such an one free, without stay or delay; neither answer the bearer a word.”  Then he sealed it and she took it from him, after which she began to toy again with him on the divan when, behold, some one knocked at the door.  He asked, “Who is that?” and she answered, “My husband.”  “What shall I do?” said he, and she, “Enter this cabinet, till I send him away and return to thee.”  So she clapped him into the second compartment from the bottom and padlocked the door on him; and meanwhile the Kazi heard all they said.  Then she went to the house-door and opened it, whereupon lo! the Wazir entered.  She bussed the ground before him and received him with all honour and worship, saying, “O