After this they decided to bury the captain of the robbers with his comrades, and did it so privately that nobody discovered their bones till many years after, when no one had any concern in the publication of this remarkable history. A few days afterward, Ali Baba celebrated the nuptials of his son and Morgiana with great solemnity, a sumptuous feast, and the usual dancing and spectacles; and had the satisfaction to see that his friends and neighbors, who were not unacquainted with Morgiana’s good qualities commended his generosity and goodness of heart.
Ali Baba did not visit the robbers’ cave for a whole year, fearing that the two robbers of whom he could get no account might be alive. At the year’s end, when he found they had not made any attempt to disturb him, he had the curiosity to make another journey. When he came to the cave he alighted, tied his horse to a tree, approaching the entrance, and pronouncing the words, “Open, Sesame!” when the door opened. He entered the cavern, and by the condition he found things in, judged that nobody had been there since the captain had fetched the goods for his shop. He believed he was the only person in the world who had the secret of opening the cave, and that all the treasure was at his sole disposal. Putting as much gold into his saddle-bag as his horse would carry, he returned to town. Some years later he carried his son to the cave and taught him the secret, which he handed down to
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