One day when her husband was away from home, she saw from
the window a handsome young man. And the moment she saw
him, the fickle girl went mad with love, and secretly sent a
messenger to invite him in, and made love to him in secret. Thus
her heart was fixed on him alone, and she was happy with him.

But at last her husband came home and delighted the hearts of his
parents-in-law. And when the day had been spent in feasting,
Fortune was adorned by her mother, and sent to her husband's
room. But she was cold toward him and pretended to sleep. And
her husband went to sleep, too, for he was weary with his journey,
and had been drinking wine.

When everyone in the house had gone to sleep after their dinner, a
thief made a hole in the wall and came into that very room. And
just then the merchant's daughter got up without seeing him, and
went out secretly to a meeting with her lover. And the thief was
disappointed, and thought: "She has gone out into the night
wearing the very jewels that I came to steal. I must see where she
goes." So the thief went out and followed her.

But she met a woman friend who had flowers in her hand, and
went to a park not very far away. And there she saw the man
whom she came to meet hanging on a tree. For the policeman had
thought he was a thief, had put a rope around his neck and hanged
him.

And at the sight she went distracted, and lamented pitifully: "Oh,
oh! I am undone," and fell on the ground and wept. Then she took
her lover down from the tree and made him sit up, though he was