sing, and put into your song all your love for me. If your love is strong enough, it will woo my soul back in the form of a bird, and I shall return and take my soul again, the magic spell under which I used to live will be broken, and you and I can dwell together in our true forms happily and lovingly for the rest of our lives."
At this point in the story the Siddhi-kur stopped short and said no more.
"Well, did she do it? Did Ananda sing the song and woo back the soul of the White Bird Prince?" asked the Khan's son, forgetting in his interest all about Nagarguna and his command to keep silent.
"Of course she did!" replied the Siddhi-kur, "and her song was so full of love and beauty that its like has never been heard, even to this very day. But see now, you have broken silence, my son, and so I am free once more to go back to my mango tree in the cool grove beside the
