see that hand that killed him.

Leander having got his enemy's head, wished himself in the Palace of
Calm Delights, where he found the princess walking, and with grief
considering the message which her mother had sent her, and on the means
to repel Furibon.

Suddenly she beheld a head hanging in the air, with nobody to hold it.
This prodigy astonished her so that she could not tell what to think of
it; but her amazement was increased when she saw the head laid at her
feet, and heard a voice utter these words:

"Charming Princess, cease your fear
Of Furibon; whose head see here."

Abricotina, knowing Leander's voice, cried:

"I protest, madam, the invisible person who speaks is the very stranger
that rescued me."

The princess seemed astonished, but yet pleased.

"Oh," said she, "if it be true that the invisible and the stranger
are the same person, I confess I shall be glad to make him my
acknowledgments."

Leander, still invisible, replied, "I will yet do more to deserve them;"
and so saying he returned to Furibon's army, where the report of the
king's death was already spread throughout the camp. As soon as Leander
appeared there in his usual habit, everybody knew him; all the officers