CHAPTER II.

The Prince determines to rescue his Brethren—He takes service with a nobleman, and makes friends with Dilbar’s confidante, by whose instructions he turns the tables on Dilbar, and wins all her wealth and her own person—He tells Dilbar of his design to obtain the Rose of Bakáwalí, and she warns him of the dangers he must encounter—He relates the _Story of the Bráhman and the Lion_—Dilbar exhorts our hero before his departure 247