That did she, and thereupon he exclaimed, 'Now go, and thy part is to
move round Shagpat; and a wind will strike thee from one quarter, and
from which quarter it striketh is the one of menace and danger to
Shagpat.'

So Kadza was diligent in doing what the Genie commanded, and sought for
Shagpat, and moved round him many times; but no wind struck her. She
went back to the Genie, and told him of this, and the Genie cried, 'What?
no wind? not one from Aklis? Then will Shagpat of a surety triumph, and
we with him.'

Now, there was joy on the features of Kadza and Karaz, till suddenly he
said, 'Halt in thy song! How if there be danger and menace above? and
'tis the thing that may be.'

Then he seized Kadza, and slung her by him, and went into the air, and up
it till the roofs of the City of Shagpat were beneath their feet, all on
them visible. And under an awning, on the roof of a palace, there was
the Vizier Feshnavat and Baba Mustapha, they ear to lip in consultation,
and Baba Mustapha brightening with the matter revealed to him, and
bobbing his head, and breaking on the speech of the Vizier. Now, when he
saw them the Genie blew from his nostrils a double stream of darkness
which curled in a thick body round and round him, and Kadza slung at his
side was enveloped in it, as with folds of a huge serpent. Then the
Genie hung still, and lo! two radiant figures swept toward the roof he
watched, and between them Noorna bin Noorka, her long dark hair borne far
backward, and her robe of silken stuff fluttering and straining on the
pearl buttons as she flew. There was that in her beauty and the silver
clearness of her temples and her eyes, and her cheeks, and her neck, and
chin and ankles, that made the Genie shudder with love of her, and he was