When Aladdin had got into his chamber he took the lamp, and rubbing it
in the same place as before, immediately the genie appeared, and said
to him, "What wouldst thou have? I am ready to obey thee as thy slave;
I, and the other slaves of the lamp."
"Hear me," said Aladdin. "Thou hast hitherto obeyed me, but now I am
about to impose on thee a harder task. The sultan's daughter, who was
promised me as my bride, is this night married to the son of the grand
vizier. Bring them both hither to me immediately they retire to their
bedchamber."
"Master," replied the genie, "I obey you."
Aladdin supped with his mother as was their wont, and then went to his
own apartment, and sat up to await the return of the genie, according
to his commands.
In the meantime the festivities in honor of the princess's marriage
were conducted in the sultan's palace with great magnificence. The
ceremonies were at last brought to a conclusion, and the princess and
the son of the vizier retired to the bedchamber prepared for them. No
sooner had they entered it, and dismissed their attendants, than the
genie, the faithful slave of the lamp, to the great amazement and
alarm of the bride and bridegroom took up the bed, and by an agency
invisible to them, transported it in an instant into Aladdin's
chamber, where he set it down.
"Remove the bridegroom," said Aladdin to the genie, "and keep him a
prisoner till to-morrow dawn, and then return with him here.
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