"If thou speak unto me that which is true, verily I will release thee; and when I shall have overcome the Deevs, I will give the land of Mazinderan into thy hands. Tell me, therefore, where dwelleth the White Deev, and where may I find the Shah and his men, and how can I deliver them from b*****e?"
Then Aulad answered and told Rustem how it was an hundred farsangs unto the spot where Kai Kaous groaned in his b*****e, and how it was yet another hundred unto the mountain pass where dwelt the Deev. And he told him how the passes were guarded by lions and magicians and mighty men, and how none had ever pierced thereunto. And he counselled him to desist from this quest.
But Rustem smiled, and said, "Be thou my guide, and thou wilt behold an elephant overcome the might of evil."
And when he h
