eturned to you."

Hadji Hussein admitted this, and fully appreciated that he had no case
against the Jew, so saying: 'Chok shai!' he returned to his home.

That night Hussein mingled in his prayers a vow to recover his gold at
no matter what cost or trouble.

In his younger days Hadji Hussein had been a pipe-maker, and many were
the chibooks of exceptional beauty that he had made. Go but to the
potters' lane at Tophane, and the works of art displayed by the
majority of them have been fashioned by the hands of Hussein. The art
that had fed him for years was now to be the means of recovering his
money.

Hadji Hussein daily met Ben Moise but he never again referred to the
money, and further, Hussein's sons were always in company with Ben
Moise's only son, a lad of ten.

Time passed, and Ben Moise entirely forgot about the jar, olives, and
gold; not so Hadji Hussein. He had been working. First he had made an
effigy of Ben Moise. When he had completed this image to his
satisfaction, he dressed it in the identical manner and costume the
Jew habitually wore. He then purchased a monkey. This monkey was kept
in a cage opposite the effigy of Ben Moise. Twice a day regularly the
monkey's food was placed on the shoulders of the Jew, and Hussein
would open the cage, saying: "Babai git" (go to your father). At a
bound the monkey would plant himself on the shoulders of the Jew, and
would not be dislodged until its hunger had been satisfied.

In the meantime Hadji Hussein and Ben Moise were greater friends than
ever, and their children were likewise playmates. One day Hussein took
Ben Moise's son to his Harem and told him, much to the lad's joy, that
he was to be their guest for a week. Later on Ben Moise called on
Hadji Hussein to know the reason of his son's not returning as usual
at sundown.

"Ah, my friend," said Hussein, "a great calamity has befallen you!
Your son, alas! has been converted into a monkey, a furious monkey! So
furious that I was compelled to put him into a cage. Come and see for
yourself."

No sooner did Ben Moise enter the room in which the caged monkey was,
than it set up a howl, not having had any food that day. Poor Ben
Moise was thunderstruck, and Hadji Hussein begged him to take the
monkey away.

Next day Hussein was summoned to the court, the case of Ben Moise was
heard, and the Hadji was ordered to return the child at once. This he
vowed he could not do, and to convince the judges he offered to