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ging some money; upon which Ali Baba and his son each gave her a small piece of money. She then turned to the pretended Cogia Hassan, and while he was putting his hand into his purse, she plunged the poinard into his heart.
“Wretch!” cried Ali Baba, “thou hast ruined me and my family.”
“No, Sir,” replied Morgiana, “I have preserved, and not ruined, you and your son. Look well at this traitor and you will find him to be the pretended oil-merchant who came once before to rob and murder you.”
Ali Baba, having pulled off the turbon and the clock which the false Cogia Hassan wore, discovered that he was not only the pretended oil-merchant, but the captain of the forty robbers, who had slain his brother Cassim; nor could he doubt that his perfidious aim had been to destroy him, and probably his son, with the concealed dagger. Ali Baba, who felt the new obliga- he owed to Morgiana for thus saving his life a second time, embraced her, and said, “My dear Morgiana, I give you your liberty; but my gratitude must not stop there; I will also marry you to my son who
