The King said to himself, “Omar has told me true about this house of misfortune as an abyss of debauchery.”

When the women had fallen asleep the King rose, extinguished the light, undressed, and laid down between the two. He had taken care during their conversation to impress their names on his memory. So he was able to say to one of them, “You — so and so — where have you put the door-keys?” speaking very low.

The woman answered, “Go to sleep, you whore, the keys are at their usual place.”

The King said to himself, “There is no might and strength but in God the Almighty and Benevolent!” and was much troubled.

And again he asked the woman about the keys, saying, “Daylight is coming. I must open the doors. There is the sun. I am going to open the house.”

And she answered, “The keys are in the usual place. Why do you thus bother me? Sleep, I say, till it is day.”

And again the King said to himself, “ and strength but in God the Almighty and Benevolent, and surely if it were not for the fear of God I should run my sword through her.” Then he began again, “Oh, you so and so WIOM !”

She said, “What do you want?”

I am uneasy,” said the King, “about the keys; tell me where they are?” And she answered, “You hussy! Does your vulva itch for coition? Cannot you do without for a single night? Look! the Vizir’s wife has withstood all the entreaties of the negro, and repelled him since six months! Go, the keys are in the negro’s pocket WIOM. Do not say to him, ‘Give me the keys’; but say, ‘Give me your member.’ You know his name is Dorerame.”

The King was now silent, for he knew what to do. He waited a short time till the woman was asleep; then he dressed himself in her clothes, and concealed his sword under them; his face he hid under a veil of red silk. Thus dressed he looked like other women WIOM  . He then opened the door, stole softly out, and placed himself behind the curtains of the saloon entrance. He saw only some people sitting there; the remainder were asleep.

The King made the following silent prayer, “O my soul, let me follow the right way, and let all those people among whom I find myself be stunned with drunkenness, so that they cannot know the King from his subjects, and God give me strength.”

He then entered the saloon saying: “In the name of God!” and he tottered towards the bed of the negro as if drunk WIOM. The negroes and the women took him to be the woman whose attire he had taken.