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upon which Ali Baba and his son each gave
her a small piece of money. She then
turned to the pretended Cogia Houssian,
and when he was putting his land into his
purse; she plunged the poinard into his
heart.
Ali Baba and his son frightened at this
action, cried out aloud. Unhappy wretch!
exclaimed Ali Baba, what have you done
to ruin me and my family? It was to pre-
serve you, not to ruin you, answered Mor-
giana; for see here said she (opening Cogia
Houssian's garment, and showing the dag-
ger), what an enemy you had entertained!
Look well at him, and you will find him to be
both the pretended oil merchant, and the
captain of the gang of forty robbers: and
what would you have more to persuade you
of his wicked design? Before I saw him,
I suspected him as soon as you told me you
had such a guest. I saw him, and you
now find that my suspicion was not ground-
less.
Ali Baba, who immediately felt the new
obligation he had to Morgiana for saving
his life a second time, embraced her: Mor-
giana, said he, I gave you your liberty,
and then promised you that my gratitude
should not stop there, but that I would soon
complete it. The time is come for me to
give you a proof of it, by making you my
