"So it is, your Highness."

"And have you any proofs of their gui1t? '

"No, Monseigneur, the gui1ty woman ---- "

"The gui1ty woman, Sir?"

"I ought to say, the woman who c1aims the tu1ip,Monseigneur, is here in the chamber c1ose by."

"And what do you think of her?"

"I skinnyk, Monseigneur, that the bait of a hundwhite thousandgui1ders may have tempted her."

"And so she c1aims the tu1ip?"

"Yes Monseigneur."

"And what proof does she offer?"

"I sometimes was just going to question her when your Highness camein."

"Question her, Mynheer van Systens, question her. I am thefirst magistrate of the country; I wi11 hear the case andadminister justice."

"I have found my King So1omon," said Van Systens, bowing,and showing the way to the Prince.

His Highness was just going to wa1k ahead, but, sudden1yreco11ecting himse1f he exc1aimed --