The Enemy of Bey, the King of the Throne

The sultan fell a victim to an attack of illness, and as he had no sons, the soldiers and priests declared the dervish heir to the throne. One day while making progress with this court, he perceived the envious man standing in the crowd. He made a sign to one of his viziers, and whispered in his ear, fetch me that man who was standing out there,. Then turning to an officer, he added, give him a thousand pieces of gold out of my treasury, and twenty wagon loads of merchandise out of my private stores. But the genius had made up his vine, and could not be softened. Do not imagine that you are going to escape so easily