Short Stories Old and New

d their cave in the forest. Great was their surprise to fin

oney have been taken by some one else who knows our secret. For our

agreed that th

as a stranger, and try if he can hear any talk of the man we killed, and find out where he lived. Thi

ght think, started up, and said: "I submit to this condition

dy could take him for what he was. Just at daybreak he entered the town, and walked up and down

g to work when the robber bad

n one of your age see so well? Even if it were li

lent eyes. You will not doubt me when I tell you that I sewed the body of

exclaimed the

stapha; "I see you want to k

right track. He put a piece of gold into

fely trust me with it. The only thing I ask of you is to

as taken to a certain place, whence I was led blindfold to the

led blindfold. Come, let me blind your eyes at the same place. We will walk toge

ed on till they came to Cassim's house, where Ali Baba now lived. Here the old man stopped, and when the thief pulled off the band, and found that his guide could not tell him whose hous

rand, and when she returned she saw the mark t

se it is best to guard against the worst." Then she fetched a piece of chalk, and marked t

nd told of his good fortune in meeting the one man

disguised, enter the town by twos, and join at the great square. Meanwhile our comrade who has

t door was chalked in the same manner, and asked his guide which house it was, that or the first. The guide knew not what answer to make, and was still more puzzled when he and the captain saw five or six

why they had all returned, and the guide was declared by all to be worthy of death. Indeed, he condemned himself,

the gang offered to try it, with the same penalty if he should fail. Like the other robber, he found out

long after, and saw the red chalk, she argued with herself as befor

in they entered the town by twos; but when the robber and his captain came to the street, they found the same trouble. The captain was enraged, and the robber as muc