ABSTRACT
Next day he related in council all that had transpired. Thereupon officers rushed out in a fury to apprehend and bind the thieves. The thieves entered the council-chamber hand cuffed, trembling in fear of their lives. As they stood before the throne of the king-the moon-bright king who had been their night-companion-the thief who could recognize by day indubitably any one on whom he had cast his eye by night saw the king upon the throne.
