"Now you see that my prophecy is fulfilled!" said Roxana to Barak Hageb. "Sidi Ahmed lies dead before you." "And mine, too, will yet come true," said Ildibah. "Our enemy's realm will perish. Let us hasten to Kerman!" So they cut off the dead Sultan's head, and set it on a lance. With this badge of victory they rode in triumph to Kerman, their followers increasing from hour to hour. The soldiers who had ran away came out of their hiding-places, and joined the array, so that it was a large force by the time they crossed the frontier. The gates of the towns were flung open joyfully, for every one was now ready to say that Sidi Ahmed had, in truth, been a tyrant, and Barak Hageb was hailed as a deliverer, and was finally proclaimed as Sultan. This conclusion, which is so strange that no one will believe this history, though it is the literal truth, happened in the year after the flight of the Prophet 612. Transcriber's Notes: Italics are represented with _underscores_. Added table of contents. This text version represents oe ligatures as "oe." The HTML edition contains proper ligature characters. Some inconsistent punctuation (semi-colons sometimes inside, sometimes outside quotes) retained from the original. Some inconsistent spelling (practice vs. practise, etc.) retained from the original. Retained inconsistent hyphenation (river-side vs. riverside, etc.). Rejoined split image captions (e.g. "_From a_] AGE 4. [_Miniature._" becomes "AGE 4. _From a Miniature._") Page 126, changed "culpit" to "culprit." Page 130, added missing quotes around paragraph beginning "I could only wait until his return." Page 133, added missing quote after "I only made things worse." Page 136, changed "con-dence" to "confidence." Page 138, added missing close quote to image caption. Page 140, added missing quote before "There is no danger." Page 155, removed unnecessary quote after "At eight-and-thirty 'Stones of Venice' had appeared." Page 164, added missing period to "Fig. 2." Page 174, changed apostrophe to comma after "brusquely;" added missing close quote to image caption. Page 177, changed "as a few feet distant" to "at a few feet distant." Page 178, added missing quotes around Fussie in "whether Fussie came by road or rail." Page 179, changed "every body" to "everybody." Page 183, changed "Residencz" to "Residenz." Page 188, changed "walk up down" to "walk up and down." Page 203, added missing period at end of page. Page 212, changed "the the solitude" to "the solitude." Page 223, added missing quote after "our side seems to be losing." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Strand Magazine, Volume I, Issue 2, February 1891, by Various