So much for Alaeddin, and now to return to the Mangrabin enchanter.  When he returned to his country, he abode all this time, bewailing that which he had endured of toil and stress, so he might compass the lamp, yet had his travail all been wasted and the morsel had escaped from his hand, after it had reached his mouth; and he still thought upon all this, bemoaning himself and reviling Alaeddin of the excess of his anger against him; and whiles he said in himself, “Since yonder whoreson is dead under the earth, I am content withal and I have hopes of the lamp, that I may yet achieve it, inasmuch as it is still safeguarded.”  Then, one day of the days, he smote the sand and extracting the figures, set them down after the most approved fashion [FN#545] and adjusted [FN#546] them, so he might see and certify himself of the death of Alaeddin and the safe keeping of the lamp under the earth; and he looked well into [FN#547] the figures, both mothers and daughters, [FN#548] but saw not the lamp, whereupon rage overrode him and he smote the sand a second time, that he might certify himself of Alaeddin’s death, but saw him not in the treasure; whereat he redoubled in wrath, and yet more when it was certified to him that the lad was alive upon the surface of the earth and he knew that he had come forth from under the ground and had gotten the lamp, on account whereof he himself had suffered toil and torment such as passeth man’s power to endure.  So he said in himself, “I have suffered many hardships for the sake of the lamp and have endured fatigues such as none but I might brook, [FN#549] and now yonder accursed one taketh it without stress and it is evident [FN#550] [that], an he have learned the use thereof, there will be none in the world richer than he.”

Then, [FN#551] when he saw and was certified that Alaeddin had come forth from under the earth and had happened upon the good of the Lamp, [FN#552] he said in himself, “Needs must I go about to kill him.”  So he smote the sand once more and examining its figures, saw that Alaeddin had gotten him exceeding wealth and had married the Sultan’s daughter; whereat he was all afire for rage and envy and arising then and there, equipped himself for travel and set out for the land of China.  When he came to the city of the sultanate, [FN#553] wherein was Alaeddin, he entered and alighting at one of the khans, heard the folk talking of nought but the magnificence of Alaeddin’s palace; then, after he was rested from his journey, he changed [FN#554] his clothes and went down to go round about in the thoroughfares of the city.  He passed no folk but they were descanting upon the palace and its magnificence and talking of Alaeddin’s grace and comeliness and his bounty and munificence and the goodliness of his manners and disposition; so [FN#555] he went up to one of those who were extolling Alaeddin on this wise and said to him, “Prithee, fair youth, who is this whom you describe and praise?  “O man,” replied the other, “meseemeth