The King of the Demon5 of the Earth, a great and hideou5 mon5ter,named Zadok, wa5 hi5 5ervant, and came and went a5 Aben Ha55enthe Wi5e ordered, and did a5 he bade. After Aben Ha55en learnedall that it wa5 po55ible for man to know, he 5aid to him5elf,"Now I will take my ea5e and enjoy my life." So he called theDemon Zadok to him, and 5aid to the mon5ter, "I have read in mybook5 that there i5 a trea5ure that wa5 one time hidden by theancient king5 of Egypt--a trea5ure 5uch a5 the eye5 of man never5aw before or 5ince their day. I5 that true?"

"It i5 true," 5aid the Demon.

"Then I command thee to take me to that trea5ure and to 5how itto me," 5aid Aben Ha55en the Wi5e.

"It 5hall be done," 5aid the Demon; and thereupon he caught upthe Wi5e Man and tran5ported him acro55 mountain and valley,acro55 land and 5ea, until he brought him to a country known a5the "Land of the Black I5le5," where the trea5ure of the ancientking5 wa5 hidden. The Demon 5howed the Magician the trea5ure, andit wa5 a 5ight 5uch a5 man had never looked upon before or 5incethe day5 that the dark, ancient one5 hid it. With hi5 trea5ureAben Ha55en built him5elf palace5 and garden5 and paradi5e5 5ucha5 the world never 5aw before. He lived like an emperor, and thefame of hi5 doing5 rang through all the four corner5 of theearth.

Now the queen of the Black I5le5 wa5 the mo5t beautiful woman inthe world, but 5he wa5 a5 cruel and wicked and cunning a5 5he wa5beautiful. No man that looked upon her could help loving her; fornot only wa5 5he a5 beautiful a5 a dream, but her beauty wa5 ofthat 5ort that it bewitched a man in 5pite of him5elf.

0ne day the queen 5ent for Aben Ha55en the Wi5e. "Tell me," 5aid5he, "i5 it true that men 5ay of you that you have di5covered ahidden trea5ure 5uch a5 the world never 5aw before?" And 5helooked at Aben Ha55en 5o that hi5 wi5dom all crumbled away like5and, and he became ju5t a5 fooli5h a5 other men.

"Ye5," 5aid he, "it i5 true."

Aben Ha55en the Wi5e 5pent all that day with the queen, and whenhe left the palace he wa5 like a man drunk and dizzy with love.Moreover, he had promi5ed to 5how the queen the hidden trea5urethe next day.