worthless words which drop from the mouth of thine unprofitable servant
with those ears of thine created but to receive messages from Heaven, I
will relate to thee what has happened most recently in Stambul."

The Sultan continued to play with his ring, which he had taken off one
finger to slip on to another.

"Thou hast laid the command upon me, most puissant and most gracious
Padishah," continued the Berber-Bashi, unwinding the pearl-embroidered
_kauk_ from the head of the Sultan--"thou hast laid the command upon me
to discover and acquaint thee with what further befell Gül-Bejáze after
she had been cast forth from thy harem. From morn to eve, and again from
eve to morning, I have been searching from house to house, making
inquiries, listening with all my ears, mingling among the chapmen of the
bazaars disguised as one of themselves, inducing them to speak, and
ferreting about generally, till, at last, I have got to the bottom of
the matter. For a long time nobody dared to buy the girl; it is indeed
but meet that none should dare to pick up what the mightiest monarch of
the earth has thrown away; it is but meet that the spot where he has
cast out the ashes from his pipe should be avoided by all men, and that
nobody should venture to put the sole of his foot there. Yet,
nevertheless, in the bazaar, one madly presumptuous man was found who
was lured to his destruction at the sight of the girl's beauty, and
received her for five thousand piastres from the hand of the public
crier. These five thousand piastres were all the money he had, and he
got them, in most wondrous wise, from a foreign butcher whom he had
welcomed to his house as a guest."

"What is the name of this man?"?