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oil, he ran hastily to the rest, and found
every one of his troop put to death in the
same manner. Full of rage and despair at
having failed in his design, he forced the
lock of a door that led to a garden, and made
his escape over the walls.
On the following morning, Morgiana
related to her master Ali Baba his wonder-
ful deliverance from the pretended oil mer-
chant and his gang of robbers. Ali Baba
at first could scarcely credit her tale; but
when he saw the robbers dead in the jars,
he could not sufficiently praise her courage
and sagacity; and without letting any one
else into the secret, he and Morgiana, the
next night, buried the thirty-seven thieves
in a deep trench at the bottom of the gar-
den. The jars and the mules as he had no
use for them, were sent from time to time
to the different markets and sold.
While Ali Baba took these measures to
prevent the public from knowing how he
came by his riches in so short a time, the
captain of the forty robbers returned to
the forest, in most inconceivable mortifica-
tion; and in the agitation, or rather con-
fusion, he was in at his success, so contrary
to what he had promised himself, he entered
the cave, not being able, all the way from
the town, to come to any resolution what to
do to Ali Baba.
