'Dogs, what is it to you which road the Signet takes ?' Then they also let us pass.
"Now, following the passage, we were out of the guest house and in the gardens, and I led her to what is called the prison tower, whence runs the secret way.

Here were more guards whom I bade open in the name of Sinan.
"They said: 'We obey not.

This place is shut save to the Signet itself.' "'Behold it!' I answered.

The officer looked and said: 'It is the very Signet, sure enough, and there is no other.' "Yet he paused, studying the black stone veined with the red dagger and the ancient writing on it.
"'Are you, then, weary of life ?' I asked.

'Fool, the Al-je-bal himself would keep a tryst within this house, which he enters secretly from the palace.