JAVANESE TRADITION. 203

As Allah lives, I have ; this day a younf^ man led me here the only one who -svoiild lend me any assistance, whilst evoiyone else I asked was linrry- iiif^ to the palace, and would not stop for me that young man is thy brother."

Everyone ])resent began to think the old man was mad, and Sukorini loudly protested against the manner in which he had been spoken of, and entreated his father to have the seer sent away fi-om the palace. But the king, Avhosc heart yearned for the presence of his good and favourite child, paying no heed to these outlnirsts, com- manded that the young man who had accompanied the venerabk' seer sliould be brought before him.

ANlien (iiuiddhl entered, he was so disguised that even his own father did not recognise him ; and h ajiproaclicd the throne amid the lialf-suj)- pre.ssed jcrrs of the asscinbU'd nnikitudc Per- ceiving at a glance how mattrrs stood, he fi'h that the moment was a critical one for him. Advanc-

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