here. So now bring heaven in a loving glance to my love-tortured
heart."

When the princess saw that the lord of her life was beside her, she
was torn between love and wonder and modesty, and did not know
what she ought to do. So they were secretly married and lived
there in supreme happiness. Master-mind lived in a double form.
By day he was a girl with the pill in his mouth, by night a man
without the pill.

After a time the brother-in-law of King Glory-banner gave his
daughter with great pomp to a Brahman, the son of the counsellor
Ocean-of-Wisdom. And the princess Moonlight was invited to her
cousin's wedding and went to her uncle's house. And
Master-mind went with her in his girl form.

When the counsellor's son saw Master-mind in his lovely girl
form, he was terribly smitten with the arrows of love. His heart
was stolen by the sham girl, and he went home feeling lonely even
with his wife. It made him crazy to think of that lovely face. When
his father tried to soothe him, he woke from his madness and
stammered out his insane desire. And his father was terribly
distressed, knowing that all this depended on another.

Then the king learned the story and came there. When the king
saw his condition and perceived that he was seven parts gone in
love, he said: "How can I give him the girl who was intrusted to
me by the Brahman? Yet without her he will be ten parts gone in
love, and will die. And if he dies, then his father, the counsellor,
will die too. And if the counsellor perishes, my kingdom will