king constantly of him and only him. The fire of
separation from the lord of my life devours me day and night."

When Master-mind heard these welcome words, he rejoiced and counted
himself happy. And thinking the time to reveal himself had come, he
took the pill from his mouth, and disclosed his natural form. And he
said: "Beautiful maiden, I am he whom you bought and enslaved with a
kindly glance in the garden. I was sick at the separation from you; so
I took the form of a girl, and came 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 perish. What shall I do?"

He consulted his counsellors, and they said: "Your Majesty, the first
duty of a king is the preservation of the virtue of his people. This is
the fundamental principle, and is established as such among
counsellors. If the counsellor is lost, the fundamental principle is
lost; how then can virtue be preserved? So in this case it would be
sinful to destroy the counsellor through his son. You must by all means