Aladdins Palace

Aladdins Palace, Part III of a re-telling of the Arabian Nights Tale

Part III of Aladdins Tale

Aladdin immediately went to the lamp, and spoke to the Genie. He gave the genie very precise instructions about his palace, ordering the construction of every apartment and every detail imaginable. The palace was to be made of gold and jewels and to be a wonder of the world.

The next morning the Palace was built and Aladdin was amazed. He told the genie that he could not be happier. The windows glowed with gold and jewels and the walls of the Palace were shining in the sunlight. Every detail about the apartments and main halls were followed. Aladdin was amazed and incredibily happy. This was a palace fit for his princess.

He invited the Sultan and everyone at court to the wedding, and there he met his Princess. She was very pleased both with Aladdin and her new home.

The Sultan could not imagine such splendour, and he mentioned to the Vizier how is it possible that this could be built in such a short time? There was no palace here yesterday, and yet now there is.

The Vizier had his suspicions that there might be enchantment involved. He did mention it to the Sultan who brushed off the idea.

Anyway everyone was happy with the wonderful marriage, the palace and the spectacular feast that followed. Aladdin had everyone's good wishes for a great life, and happiness. For years Aladdin lived in comfort and happiness. He was generous and eager to show it to the people of the town. He would travel into town and throw gold pieces into the crowds giving of his good fortune. This generosity became well known and the people respected and admired him.

In most fairy tales, this might be the end.

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However, unknown to Aladdin was the fact that the old African Magician who had thought that he had killed Aladdin in the cave had returned to the town. Upon hearing rumours about a generous prince in a fantastic palace who managed to marry the princess, started the magician thinking. He started to put together little pieces of the story he heard, and started to wonder if this prince could be the boy he had thought he killed.

Finally, he had someone he met in the market escort him to see the palace. When he came to the palace, and had examined it on all sides, he doubted not that Aladdin had made use of the lamp to build it.

The Evil Magician

When the magician returned to his room in town he performed a spell asking his magic box of sand where the lamp was? The answer was that the lamp was kept in Aladdin's Palace.

The magician was thrilled at the prospect of finally getting the lamp himself, and would be happy to throw Aladdin back into poverty.

Now it just so happened that Aladdin was away on a hunting trip and the magician heard about it, realizing this was his opportunity. So he went to the marketplace and bought 12 new shiny lamps, and put them in a basket on his arm.

He pretended to be an old merchant or what many would consider to be an old fool. He went to the Palace of Aladdin and started to cry: "Who will change old lamps for new?" He repeated this so often, walking backward and forward in front of the palace, that the princess, who was then in the hall with the many windows told one of her slaves to go and hear what he said.

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The slave was not long before she returned, and ran into the hall, laughing so heartily that the princess asked "Well, giggler, will you tell me what you laugh at?"

"Madam" answered the slave, "a fool with a basket on his arm, full of ine new lamps, ask to change them for old ones?"

Another slave mentioned that there was an old lamp in the prince's robing room. She suggested that the princess might want to try and see if the old man was such a fool as to exchange them?

The princess not knowing the value of the old lamp told the slave to take it and see if they could exchange it for a new one.

The slave just outside the palace cried "Give me a new lamp for this?"

The magician never doubted that this was the lamp he wanted. There could be no other such in the palace, where every utensil was gold or silver.

The magician stuffed the lamp in his coat, and it wasn't until late that night that he dared to take it out and finally rub the lamp. As soon as he did the genie appeared, and said: "What wouldst thou have? I am ready to obey thee as thy slave, and the slave of all those who have that lamp in their hands."

"I command thee," replied the magician, "to transport me immediately and the palace which thou has built in this city, with all the people in it, to Africa."

Immediately, the genie did as he asked and the palace and all the people in it were transported to the spot in africa that the magician commanded.

Aladdin A Trickster?

The next morning when the Sultan awoke, he looked out of his window to look at the beautiful palace next door to his and all he saw was an empty space as there had been before. He thought perhaps he was mistaken, and rubbed his eyes, but when he looked again, he still saw nothing more the second time than the first. He could not believe that the palace was not there and quickly called for his Grand Vizier. When he showed the Grand Vizier that the palace was no longer there, he quickly reminded him that he thought all along that it was all a magician's trick. Yes, the Sultan did remember he had told him his thoughts and that now he knew that Aladdin must have been a trickster.

They immediately sent a detachment of guards to find Aladdin and have him arrested. When Aladdin was surrounded on his hunting trip by guards and told he was under arrest he told the officers: "Execute your orders; I am not conscious that I have committed any offence agaisnt the sultan's person or government."

As they marched him through the town all of the townspeople who loved Aladdin started to follow him to the Sultan's Palace. The Sultan was going to have him executed until he noticed the huge crowd outside of his gates. The people were angry and quickly turning into a mob. The sultan realized that he must pardon Aladdin. Finally Aladdin spoke "I beg of your majesty to add one favour more to that which I have already received, which is, to let me know my crime?"

"Your crime", answered the sultan; "Do you not know it? Come and I will show it to you."

Aladdin followed the Sultan to the window where he showed him that his palace was completely gone. "Tell me Aladdin, what is become of it?" The Sultan demanded of him again: "Where is your palace, and what is become of my daughter?"

Aladdin, breaking silence, replied: "Sir, I perceive and own that that the palace which I have built is not in its place, but is vanished; neither can I tell your majesty where it may be, but can assure you I had no part in its removal."

"I don't care about your palace, what of my daughter?" cried the Sultan.

"I beg of your majesty" answered Aladdin, "to grant me forty days to make my inquiries; and if in that time I have not the success I wish, I will offer my head at the foot of your throne."

"I will give you the forty days you ask," said the sultan; "but don't think you will escape my agner if you fail, for I will hunt you down wherever you are."

Poor Aladdin left a broken man, he wandered the town asking anyone who would listen: "If they had any idea where his palace had gone?" People thought him mad, and indeed perhaps he was.

Aladdin Loses Faith

Finally, after the third day of this kind of wandering and rambling he sat down and said to himself: "where shall I seek my palace? In what province, country, or part of the world, shall I find that and my dear princess? I shall never succeed." He was full of despair.

The Power Of The Ring

He was going to cross a river and slipped down the mud, grasping hold of a rock as he fell, rubbing the ring which he still had on his hand. Immediately the genie of the ring appeared.

"What wouldst thou have? said the genie. "I am ready to obey thee as thy slave." Aladdin was thrilled as he had forgot about the power of the ring.

"I command thee, by the power of the ring, to transport me to the spot where my palace stands, in what part of the world soever it may be and se me down under the window of the Princess."

Apparently, the genie of the ring could not bring back the palace, for that he said you must talk to the genie of the lamp. Aladdin, did not know where he was but he was outside his palace. If he had asked what country the palace was in he would have been told Africa, and then would have made the connection with the evil magician of his past. But he had not asked.

Looking For His Princess

In the morning Aladdin was happy and hoping to form a plan. He waited outside the window expecting to see his princess. She did look out the window as she always arose early and saw her darling Aladdin. The princess opened a private door and they were together.

As soon as he could speak he said: "I beg of you, princess, in Heaven's name, before we talk of anything else, to tell me, both for your own sake, the sultan your father's, and mine, what is become of an old lamp which I left upon a shelf in my chamber."

"Alas! dear husband," answered the princess, "I was afraid our misfortune might be owing to that lamp: and what grieves me most is, that I have been the cause of it." "Princess," replied Aladdin, "do not blame yourself, for I ought to have taken more care of it. But let us now think only of repairing the loss; tell me what has happened, and into whose hands it has fallen."

Who Stole The Lamp?

The princess then told him the story, and immediately Aladdin knew who had stolen the lamp. They were in Africa and this gave him the answer right away, so he interrupted the princess to ask: "I desire you only to tell me what he has done with the lamp, and where he has put it."

"He carries it carefully wrapped in his cloak." said the princess.

Then Aladdin asked the princess of her treatment, for he was truly worried about her. She assured him that all he has done is try to get her feelings to change and think about marrying him. He told her all kinds of things about Aladdin trying to get her to hate him. She assured Aladdin, that all he ever got from her were tears and expressions of love about her husband. The magician had left her alone other than that.

They made a plan that the princess would offer to have the magician eat dinner with her and thereby they could give him a drink with a poison in it. That evening when the magician came the princess greeted him in the grat hall and with an enchanting grace and smile a civility she had never shown him before.

The Trick

She said that he might be surprised to find her in such a better mood, but she said: "I have reflected on what you told me of Aladdin's fate, and know my father's temper so well that I am persuaded, with you, he could not escape the terrible effects of the sultan's rage." She went on to explain that she knew her Aladdin must be dead and that there was no reason to continue to mourn him.

She also expressed that she would be interested in seeing more of Africa and wanted to put all sadness behind her. The magician agreed and offered to get her some African wine, and the princess said: "We shall sit down to supper as soon as you return."

The Switch!

While the magician was gone she quickly added the powder that Aladdin had given her into the cup for him. When he returned she poured the wine and the princess worked at charming the African magician and as he raised his cup started to make a toast and the princess interrupted: "Let us drink first, and then say what you will afterward". The magician was quick to drink up his last drop. After a few moments the Magician fell over dead.

Aladdin rushed in and promised to get her home. He had the lamp in his possession again. He undid the spell with the genie's help and when the palace was back at home, the Sultan came rushing into the hall where he heard the whole story.

He said to Aladdin, "My son, be not displeased at my proceedings against you; they arose from my paternal love; and therefore you ought to forgive the excesses to which it hurried me."

"Sir," replied Aladdin, "I have not the least reason to complain of your majesty's conduct, since you did nothing but what your duty required. This infamous magician, the basest of men, was the sole cause of my misfortune. When your majesty has leisure, I will give you an account of another fillanous action he was guilty of toward me, which was no less black and base than this."

"I will hear it later, but in the meantime let us think only of rejoicing." With that the sultan ordered a festival for the next ten days in order to celebrate the return of the princess and Aladdin. Within a few years afterward, the sultan died in a good old age, and as he left no male children, the Princess Badroulboudour, as lawful heir of the throne succeeded him, and communicating the power to Aladdin, they reigned together many years, and left many children. The End. That is the end of the story and if you liked Aladdins Palaceyou might want to go back to the Arabian Nights, at the link.

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