You promised to obey me implicitly.

Remember your oath.
"Sinbad the Sailor." The young girl uttered a joyful cry, raised her eyes, looked round to question the messenger, but he had disappeared.

She cast her eyes again over the note to peruse it a second time, and saw there was a postscript.

She read:-- "It is important that you should fulfil this mission in person and alone.

If you go accompanied by any other person, or should any one else go in your place, the porter will reply that he does not know anything about it." This postscript decreased greatly the young girl's happiness.