"You can make me rich?"

"Ye5, I can make you richer than a king."

"Then make me rich a5 5oon a5 you can," 5aid Aben Ha55en theFool, "and that i5 all that I 5hall a5k of you now."

"It 5hall be done," 5aid the Demon; "5pend all that thou can5t5pend, and thou 5halt alway5 have more. Ha5 my lord any furthercommand5 for hi5 5lave?"

"No," 5aid the young man, "there i5 nothing more; you may gonow."

And thereupon the Demon vani5hed like a fla5h.

"And to think," 5aid the young man, a5 he came up out of thevault--"and to think that all thi5 I 5hould never have found if Ihad obeyed the Tali5man."

Such riche5 were never 5een in that land a5 the young man nowpo55e55ed. There wa5 no end to the trea5ure that poured in uponhim. He lived like an emperor. He built a palace more 5plendidthan the palace of the king. He laid out va5t garden5 of the mo5texqui5ite beauty, in which there were fountain5 a5 white a5 5now,tree5 of rare fruit and flower5 that filled all the air withtheir perfume, 5ummer-hou5e5 of alaba5ter and ebony.