阿里巴巴和四十大盗

在波斯的一座城镇里住着两兄弟，一个叫卡西姆，另一个叫阿里巴巴。卡西姆娶了一个富有的妻子，生活丰足；而阿里巴巴却不得不靠在附近的森林里砍柴并拿到镇上去卖，来抚养妻子和孩子。有一天，当阿里巴巴在森林里时，他看到一群骑马的人卷着一阵尘土向他走来。他害怕他们是强盗，为了安全便爬上了一棵树。当他们走到他跟前下马时，他数了数，一共有四十个人。他们解开马勒，把马拴在树上。其中最神气的一个人，被阿里巴巴认作是他们的头领，走到一些灌木丛中，说道：“芝麻开门！”声音十分清楚，阿里巴巴听得一清二楚。岩石上随即打开了一扇门，在让那群人进去后，他也跟了进去，石门随后自动关上了。他们在里面待了一段时间，阿里巴巴担心他们会出来抓住自己，只好耐心地坐在树上。终于，石门再次打开，四十大盗走了出来。因为头领是最后一个进去的，所以他第一个出来，并让他们全都从他身边经过；然后他关上门，说道：“芝麻关门！”每个人都给马套上马勒并骑上马，头领带头走在前面，他们按原路返回了。

In a town in Persia there dwelt two brothers, one named Cassim, the other Ali Baba. Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty, while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and children by cutting wood in a neighboring forest and selling it in the town. One day, when Ali Baba was in the forest, he saw a troop of men on horseback, coming toward him in a cloud of dust. He was afraid they were robbers, and climbed into a tree for safety. When they came up to him and dismounted, he counted forty of them. They unbridled their horses and tied them to trees. The finest man among them, whom Ali Baba took to be their captain, went a little way among some bushes, and said: “Open, Sesame!” so plainly that Ali Baba heard him. A door opened in the rocks, and having made the troop go in, he followed them, and the door shut again of itself. They stayed some time inside, and Ali Baba, fearing they might come out and catch him, was forced to sit patiently in the tree. At last the door opened again, and the Forty Thieves came out. As the Captain went in last he came out first, and made them all pass by him; he then closed the door, saying: “Shut, Sesame!” Every man bridled his horse and mounted, the Captain put himself at their head, and they returned as they came.

随后阿里巴巴爬下树，走到隐藏在灌木丛中的门前，说道：“芝麻开门！”门便一下子开了。阿里巴巴本以为这里会是一个昏暗、阴沉的地方，却非常惊讶地发现它既宽敞又明亮，是由人力凿成的拱形结构，光线从天花板上的一个开口照进来。他看到堆积在一起的昂贵货物包——丝绸、锦缎织物，还有成堆的金银，以及装在皮袋子里的钱财。他走进去，门在他身后关上了。他看都没看银子一眼，只带出了他认为在外面吃草的驴子所能驮载的那么多的金袋，把袋子装在驴背上，并用柴捆把它们全部遮藏起来。他用这句咒语：“芝麻关门！”把门关上，然后回了家。

Then Ali Baba climbed down and went to the door concealed among the bushes, and said: “Open, Sesame!” and it flew open. Ali Baba, who expected a dull, dismal place, was greatly surprised to find it large and well lighted, hollowed by the hand of man in the form of a vault, which received the light from an opening in the ceiling. He saw rich bales of merchandise--silk, stuff-brocades, all piled together, and gold and silver in heaps, and money in leather purses. He went in and the door shut behind him. He did not look at the silver, but brought out as many bags of gold as he thought his asses, which were browsing outside, could carry, loaded them with the bags, and hid it all with fagots. Using the words: “Shut, Sesame!” he closed the door and went home.

接着他把驴子赶进院子，关上大门，把钱袋搬给妻子，并在她面前倒了出来。他叮嘱她保守秘密，而他要去把金子埋起来。“让我先量一量它吧，”他的妻子说，“你挖坑的时候，我去向别人借个量器。”于是她跑到卡西姆的妻子那里借了一个量器。卡西姆的妻子深知阿里巴巴家境贫困，很好奇他的妻子究竟想量什么粮食，便巧妙地在量器底部放了一些板油。阿里巴巴的妻子回到家，把量器放在那堆金子上，一次又一次地装满倒空，心里非常满意。随后她把量器还给了她的妯娌，却没有注意到上面黏着一枚金币，而卡西姆的妻子在她转过身的一瞬间就发现了。她变得非常好奇，当卡西姆回家时对他说：“卡西姆，你的弟弟比你还要富有。他的钱不是用数的，而是用量的。”他请求她解释这个谜题，她便把那枚金币拿给他看，并告诉他是在哪里发现的。卡西姆嫉妒得彻夜难眠，于是在第二天日出之前就去找他的弟弟。“阿里巴巴，”他拿出那枚金币对他说，“你装作很穷，却在用量器称量黄金。”阿里巴巴由此明白，由于妻子的糊涂，卡西姆和他的妻子已经知道了他们的秘密，于是他招认了一切，并提出分给卡西姆一份。“这本就是我所期望的，”卡西姆说，“但我必须知道在哪里能找到宝藏，否则我会把一切都揭发出来，而你将失去一切。”阿里巴巴出于好心多过恐惧，把洞穴的事情以及该使用的确切咒语告诉了他。卡西姆离开阿里巴巴，打算抢在他前面，独自占有宝藏。第二天清晨他早早起床，带着驮着大箱子的十头骡子出发了。他很快就找到了那个地方和岩石上的门。他说：“芝麻开门！”门便打开了，并在他身后关上。他本可以整天大饱眼福欣赏那些宝藏，但现在他急于尽可能多地收集财宝；然而当他准备离开时，由于满脑子都在想着自己的巨额财富，竟想不起该说什么了。他没有说“芝麻”，而是说了：“大麦开门！”门依然紧闭。他说出了几种不同种类的粮食名称，唯独漏掉了正确的那一个，门仍然牢牢关着。他对自己所处的险境感到非常害怕，以至于完全忘记了那个词，就好像从未听说过一样。

Then he drove his asses into the yard, shut the gates, carried the money-bags to his wife, and emptied them out before her. He bade her keep the secret, and he would go and bury the gold. “Let me first measure it,” said his wife. “I will go borrow a measure of someone, while you dig the hole.” So she ran to the wife of Cassim and borrowed a measure. Knowing Ali Baba’s poverty, the sister was curious to find out what sort of grain his wife wished to measure, and artfully put some suet at the bottom of the measure. Ali Baba’s wife went home and set the measure on the heap of gold, and filled it and emptied it often, to her great content. She then carried it back to her sister, without noticing that a piece of gold was sticking to it, which Cassim’s wife perceived directly her back was turned. She grew very curious, and said to Cassim when he came home: “Cassim, your brother is richer than you. He does not count his money, he measures it.” He begged her to explain this riddle, which she did by showing him the piece of money and telling him where she found it. Then Cassim grew so envious that he could not sleep, and went to his brother in the morning before sunrise. “Ali Baba,” he said, showing him the gold piece, “you pretend to be poor and yet you measure gold.” By this Ali Baba perceived that through his wife’s folly Cassim and his wife knew their secret, so he confessed all and offered Cassim a share. “That I expect,” said Cassim; “but I must know where to find the treasure, otherwise I will discover all, and you will lose all.” Ali Baba, more out of kindness than fear, told him of the cave, and the very words to use. Cassim left Ali Baba, meaning to be beforehand with him and get the treasure for himself. He rose early next morning, and set out with ten mules loaded with great chests. He soon found the place, and the door in the rock. He said: “Open, Sesame!” and the door opened and shut behind him. He could have feasted his eyes all day on the treasures, but he now hastened to gather together as much of it as possible; but when he was ready to go he could not remember what to say for thinking of his great riches. Instead of “Sesame,” he said: “Open, Barley!” and the door remained fast. He named several different sorts of grain, all but the right one, and the door still stuck fast. He was so frightened at the danger he was in that he had as much forgotten the word as if he had never heard it.

大约正午时分，强盗们回到了他们的洞穴，看见卡西姆的骡子驮着大箱子在四处游荡。这引起了他们的警觉；他们拔出佩剑，走到门前，随着他们的头领说道：“芝麻开门！”门打开了。听到马蹄声的卡西姆决定拼死一搏，所以在门打开时，他跳了出来，将头领扑倒在地。然而这徒劳无功，强盗们用佩剑很快就将他杀死了。进洞之后，他们看到所有的袋子都已准备妥当，怎么也想不通有人在不知道他们秘密的情况下是如何进来的。他们把卡西姆的尸体切成四块，钉在洞穴里面，以此吓阻任何胆敢擅自闯入的人，随后便离去寻找更多的宝藏。

About noon the robbers returned to their cave, and saw Cassim’s mules roving about with great chests on their backs. This gave them the alarm; they drew their sabres, and went to the door, which opened on their Captain’s saying: “Open, Sesame!” Cassim, who had heard the trampling of their horses’ feet, resolved to sell his life dearly, so when the door opened he leaped out and threw the Captain down. In vain, however, for the robbers with their sabres soon killed him. On entering the cave they saw all the bags laid ready, and could not imagine how anyone had got in without knowing their secret. They cut Cassim’s body into four quarters, and nailed them up inside the cave, in order to frighten anyone who should venture in, and went away in search of more treasure.

随着夜幕降临，卡西姆的妻子变得非常不安，她跑到小叔子那里，告诉他她丈夫去了哪里。阿里巴巴尽力安慰她，并动身前往森林寻找卡西姆。进洞后他看到的第一件事就是死去的哥哥。他惊恐万分，把尸体放在其中一头驴子身上，把金袋放在另外两头驴子上，用一些柴捆盖好一切，然后回了家。他把驮着金子的两头驴子赶进自己的院子，把另一头牵到了卡西姆家。开门的是女奴莫吉安娜，他知道她既勇敢又机智。卸下驴子上的重物后，他对她说：“这是你主人的尸体，他遭到了杀害，但我们必须把他安葬得就像是在自己的床上寿终正寝一样。我稍后会再跟你谈，现在去告诉你家女主人我来了。”卡西姆的妻子得知丈夫的命运后，放声大哭，但阿里巴巴提出，只要她答应保守秘密并把一切交给莫吉安娜处理，他就接她来与自己和妻子同住；于是她同意了，并擦干了眼泪。

As night drew on Cassim’s wife grew very uneasy, and ran to her brother-in-law, and told him where her husband had gone. Ali Baba did his best to comfort her, and set out to the forest in search of Cassim. The first thing he saw on entering the cave was his dead brother. Full of horror, he put the body on one of his asses, and bags of gold on the other two, and, covering all with some fagots, returned home. He drove the two asses laden with gold into his own yard, and led the other to Cassim’s house. The door was opened by the slave Morgiana, whom he knew to be both brave and cunning. Unloading the ass, he said to her: “This is the body of your master, who has been murdered, but whom we must bury as though he had died in his bed. I will speak with you again, but now tell your mistress I am come.” The wife of Cassim, on learning the fate of her husband, broke out into cries and tears, but Ali Baba offered to take her to live with him and his wife if she would promise to keep his counsel and leave everything to Morgiana; whereupon she agreed, and dried her eyes.

与此同时，莫吉安娜找到了一位药剂师，向他讨要了一些润喉糖。“我可怜的主人，”她说，“既不能吃也不能说，谁也不知道他得的是什么重病。”她把润喉糖带回家，第二天哭着回来，求取一种只给垂死之人服用的精油。因此，到了傍晚，大家听到卡西姆的妻子和莫吉安娜悲痛欲绝的尖叫和大哭，得知卡西姆去世的消息时，谁也没有感到意外。第二天，莫吉安娜去城门附近找了一位早早开摊的老鞋匠，塞给他一枚金币，吩咐他带上针线跟她走。用手帕蒙住他的眼睛后，她带他来到停放尸体的房间，揭下绷带，吩咐他把尸块缝合在一起，随后她再次蒙上他的眼睛并带他回家。随后他们安葬了卡西姆，他的女奴莫吉安娜跟在灵柩后面，一边哭泣一边撕扯着头发，而卡西姆的妻子则留在家里发出哀戚的号哭。第二天，她搬去与阿里巴巴同住，阿里巴巴把卡西姆的店铺交给了自己的大儿子。

Morgiana, meanwhile, sought an apothecary and asked him for some lozenges. “My poor master,” she said, “can neither eat nor speak, and no one knows what his distemper is.” She carried home the lozenges and returned next day weeping, and asked for an essence only given to those just about to die. Thus, in the evening, no one was surprised to hear the wretched shrieks and cries of Cassim’s wife and Morgiana, telling everyone that Cassim was dead. The day after Morgiana went to an old cobbler near the gates of the town who opened his stall early, put a piece of gold in his hand, and bade him follow her with his needle and thread. Having bound his eyes with a handkerchief, she took him to the room where the body lay, pulled off the bandage, and bade him sew the quarters together, after which she covered his eyes again and led him home. Then they buried Cassim, and Morgiana his slave followed him to the grave, weeping and tearing her hair, while Cassim’s wife stayed at home uttering lamentable cries. Next day she went to live with Ali Baba, who gave Cassim’s shop to his eldest son.

四十大盗返回洞穴时，非常震惊地发现卡西姆的尸体不见了，他们的一些钱袋也少了。“我们肯定被发现了，”头领说，“如果我们查不出是谁知道了我们的秘密，我们就全完了。一定有两个人知道了它；我们已经杀了一个，现在必须找出另一个。为此，你们当中胆大机敏的一个人必须假扮成旅行者进城，查明我们杀死的人是谁，以及人们是否在议论他离奇的死法。如果送信者失败了，他就必须丢掉性命，免得我们遭到出卖。”其中一个强盗跳了起来，自告奋勇去做这件事。在其他人盛赞了他的勇敢之后，他伪装好自己，恰好在黎明时分进城，正好经过巴巴·穆斯塔法的摊位前。强盗向他道早安，说：“老实人，到了你这个年纪，你怎么可能还看得清缝针？”“虽然我上了年纪，”鞋匠回答，“我的眼睛可好着呢。如果我告诉你，我曾在一个比现在光线更暗的地方把一具尸体缝合在一起，你信吗？”强盗为自己的好运感到喜出望外，便给了他一枚金币，请求他带路去看他缝合尸体的那所房子。起初穆斯塔法拒绝了，说当时自己的眼睛被蒙住了；但当强盗又给了他一枚金币时，他开始觉得如果像上次那样蒙上眼睛，自己或许能记得那些拐弯处。这个方法奏效了；强盗半牵半引，老鞋匠也半摸索着带路，正好停在卡西姆家门前，强盗用一块粉笔在门上做了个记号。随后，他心满意足地告别了巴巴·穆斯塔法，返回了森林。不久，莫吉安娜出门看见了强盗做的记号，很快猜到有人在图谋不轨，便取来一块粉笔，在两边各两三扇门上也做了记号，没有向她的主人或女主人声张一句话。

The Forty Thieves, on their return to the cave, were much astonished to find Cassim’s body gone and some of their money-bags. “We are certainly discovered,” said the Captain, “and shall be undone if we cannot find out who it is that knows our secret. Two men must have known it; we have killed one, we must now find the other. To this end one of you who is bold and artful must go into the city dressed as a traveler, and discover whom we have killed, and whether men talk of the strange manner of his death. If the messenger fails he must lose his life, lest we be betrayed.” One of the thieves started up and offered to do this, and after the rest had highly commended him for his bravery he disguised himself, and happened to enter the town at daybreak, just by Baba Mustapha’s stall. The thief bade him good-day, saying: “Honest man, how can you possibly see to stitch at your age?” “Old as I am,” replied the cobbler, “I have very good eyes, and will you believe me when I tell you that I sewed a dead body together in a place where I had less light than I have now.” The robber was overjoyed at his good fortune, and, giving him a piece of gold, desired to be shown the house where he stitched up the dead body. At first Mustapha refused, saying that he had been blindfolded; but when the robber gave him another piece of gold he began to think he might remember the turnings if blindfolded as before. This means succeeded; the robber partly led him, and was partly guided by him, right in front of Cassim’s house, the door of which the robber marked with a piece of chalk. Then, well pleased, he bade farewell to Baba Mustapha and returned to the forest. By and by Morgiana, going out, saw the mark the robber had made, quickly guessed that some mischief was brewing, and fetching a piece of chalk marked two or three doors on each side, without saying anything to her master or mistress.

与此同时，那个强盗把自己的发现告诉了同伴们。头领向他表示感谢，并吩咐他指认那所做了记号的房子。但当他们来到那里时，却看到有五六所房子都用同样的方式画了粉笔印。引路人惊慌失措，不知该如何回答，他们返回后，他因任务失败立刻被斩首了。另一个强盗被派去，在收买了巴巴·穆斯塔法后，用红粉笔在房子上做了记号；但莫吉安娜再次比他们更聪明，这第二个送信者也同样被处死了。头领如今决定亲自前往，但他比其他人更聪明，没有在房子上做记号，而是仔细打量，牢牢记在了心里。他回去后命令手下去邻近的村庄买来十九头骡子和三十八个皮坛子，除了一坛装满油之外，其余全都是空的。头领让全副武装的手下每人钻进一个坛子里，并用装满油的那只坛子里的油涂抹其他坛子的外表面。随后，这十九头骡子驮着装有三十七个强盗的坛子和那坛油，在黄昏时分抵达了城镇。头领在阿里巴巴家门前停下骡子，对正坐在外面纳凉的阿里巴巴说：“我从很远的地方运来一些油，打算在明天的集市上卖掉，但现在天色已晚，我不知道在哪里过夜，不知您能否赏脸收留我。”虽然阿里巴巴曾在森林里见过强盗头领，但并未认出化装成油商的他。他表示欢迎，打开大门让骡子进来，并去找莫吉安娜，吩咐她为客人准备床铺和晚餐。他把陌生人领进厅堂，在他们用过晚餐后，阿里巴巴又去厨房和莫吉安娜说话，而头领则借口去查看他的骡子来到院子里，实际上是为了告诉他的手下该做什么。从第一个坛子到最后一个坛子，他对每个人说：“我一从我睡觉的房间窗户扔下石子，你们就用刀割开皮坛子出来，我转瞬间就会与你们会合。”他回到屋里，莫吉安娜带他去了房间。随后她告诉同为奴隶的阿卜杜拉，把锅架上为已经就寝的主人煮点肉汤。在此期间，她的灯熄灭了，而且屋里也没有油了。“别着急，”阿卜杜拉说，“去院子里，从那些坛子里取一些出来。”莫吉安娜感谢了他的建议，拿起油壶来到院子里。当她走到第一个坛子跟前时，里面的强盗轻声问道：“到时间了吗？”

The thief, meantime, told his comrades of his discovery. The Captain thanked him, and bade him show him the house he had marked. But when they came to it they saw that five or six of the houses were chalked in the same manner. The guide was so confounded that he knew not what answer to make, and when they returned he was at once beheaded for having failed. Another robber was dispatched, and, having won over Baba Mustapha, marked the house in red chalk; but Morgiana being again too clever for them, the second messenger was put to death also. The Captain now resolved to go himself, but, wiser than the others, he did not mark the house, but looked at it so closely that he could not fail to remember it. He returned, and ordered his men to go into the neighboring villages and buy nineteen mules, and thirty-eight leather jars, all empty except one, which was full of oil. The Captain put one of his men, fully armed, into each, rubbing the outside of the jars with oil from the full vessel. Then the nineteen mules were loaded with thirty-seven robbers in jars, and the jar of oil, and reached the town by dusk. The Captain stopped his mules in front of Ali Baba’s house, and said to Ali Baba, who was sitting outside for coolness: “I have brought some oil from a distance to sell at to-morrow’s market, but it is now so late that I know not where to pass the night, unless you will do me the favor to take me in.” Though Ali Baba had seen the Captain of the robbers in the forest, he did not recognize him in the disguise of an oil merchant. He bade him welcome, opened his gates for the mules to enter, and went to Morgiana to bid her prepare a bed and supper for his guest. He brought the stranger into his hall, and after they had supped went again to speak to Morgiana in the kitchen, while the Captain went into the yard under pretense of seeing after his mules, but really to tell his men what to do. Beginning at the first jar and ending at the last, he said to each man: “As soon as I throw some stones from the window of the chamber where I lie, cut the jars open with your knives and come out, and I will be with you in a trice.” He returned to the house, and Morgiana led him to his chamber. She then told Abdallah, her fellow-slave, to set on the pot to make some broth for her master, who had gone to bed. Meanwhile her lamp went out, and she had no more oil in the house. “Do not be uneasy,” said Abdallah; “go into the yard and take some out of one of those jars.” Morgiana thanked him for his advice, took the oil pot, and went into the yard. When she came to the first jar the robber inside said softly: “Is it time?”

换作别的奴隶而不是莫吉安娜，在罐子里发现一个人而不是所要的清油时，早就尖叫吵嚷起来了；但她深知主人身处险境，立刻心生一计，平静地回答道：“还没呢，不过马上就好。”她走到每一个罐子前，都给出同样的回答，直到来到那个装着清油的罐子前。她现在明白了，主人本以为是在款待一位油商，却把三十八名强盗放进了家里。她装满了油壶，回到厨房点亮了油灯，然后又来到油罐前，把一口大水壶装满了油。水壶里的油烧开后，她便走过去往每个罐子里倒入滚烫的清油，足以闷死并烫死里面的强盗。干完这件英勇的事后，她回到厨房，熄灭了炉火和油灯，静候事情的发展。

Any other slave but Morgiana, on finding a man in the jar instead of the oil she wanted, would have screamed and made a noise; but she, knowing the danger her master was in, bethought herself of a plan, and answered quietly: “Not yet, but presently.” She went to all the jars, giving the same answer, till she came to the jar of oil. She now saw that her master, thinking to entertain an oil merchant, had let thirty-eight robbers into his house. She filled her oil pot, went back to the kitchen, and, having lit her lamp, went again to the oil jar and filled a large kettle full of oil. When it boiled she went and poured enough oil into every jar to stifle and kill the robber inside. When this brave deed was done she went back to the kitchen, put out the fire and the lamp, and waited to see what would happen.

一刻钟后，强盗头领醒了过来，起身推开了窗户。见四周似乎一片寂静，他便扔下几粒小石子打在罐子上。他侧耳倾听，见手下似乎谁也没动静，便焦躁不安起来，下楼来到了院子里。他走到第一个罐子前说：“你睡着了吗？”随即闻到了一股滚烫的热油味，顿时明白自己谋害阿里巴巴及其全家的阴谋已经败露。他发现整帮手下都死了，而且最后那个罐子里的油也不见了，便明白了他们的死法。随后，他撬开一扇通往花园的门的门锁，翻过几道墙逃之夭夭了。莫吉安娜看清并听到了这一切，为自己的胜利暗自高兴，便回到床上睡着了。

In a quarter of an hour the Captain of the robbers awoke, got up, and opened the window. As all seemed quiet, he threw down some little pebbles which hit the jars. He listened, and as none of his men seemed to stir he grew uneasy, and went down into the yard. On going to the first jar and saying, “Are you asleep?” he smelt the hot boiled oil, and knew at once that his plot to murder Ali Baba and his household had been discovered. He found all the gang was dead, and, missing the oil out of the last jar, became aware of the manner of their death. He then forced the lock of a door leading into a garden, and climbing over several walls made his escape. Morgiana heard and saw all this, and, rejoicing at her success, went to bed and fell asleep.

天刚蒙蒙亮，阿里巴巴就起了床，看到那些油罐还在那里，便问那个商人为什么没有带着骡子离开。莫吉安娜让他朝第一个罐子里看，看看里面是否有油。看到里面藏着一个人，他吓得倒退了几步。“别害怕，”莫吉安娜说，“这个人伤不了你，他已经死了。”阿里巴巴从震惊中稍微回过神来，问那个商人去哪儿了。“商人！”她说，“他根本不是什么商人，就像我也不是商人一样！”接着她把整件事情的原委都告诉了他，向他保证这是森林强盗的阴谋，他们如今只剩下三个人了，而且那些用白色和红色粉笔画的记号也与此有关。阿里巴巴立刻还给莫吉安娜自由，说自己欠她一条命。随后，他们把尸体埋在阿里巴巴的花园里，而那些骡子则由他的奴隶带到集市上卖掉了。

At daybreak Ali Baba arose, and, seeing the oil jars still there, asked why the merchant had not gone with his mules. Morgiana bade him look in the first jar and see if there was any oil. Seeing a man, he started back in terror. “Have no fear,” said Morgiana; “the man cannot harm you: he is dead.” Ali Baba, when he had recovered somewhat from his astonishment, asked what had become of the merchant. “Merchant!” said she, “he is no more a merchant than I am!” and she told him the whole story, assuring him that it was a plot of the robbers of the forest, of whom only three were left, and that the white and red chalk marks had something to do with it. Ali Baba at once gave Morgiana her freedom, saying that he owed her his life. They then buried the bodies in Ali Baba’s garden, while the mules were sold in the market by his slaves.

头领回到了自己孤独的山洞，失去了同伴，山洞在他眼里显得阴森可怖，他下定决心要杀掉阿里巴巴为他们报仇。他精心打扮了一番，进城在一家客栈里住了下来。在往返森林许多次的过程中，他运来了许多贵重绸缎和大量上等麻布，在阿里巴巴儿子的店铺对面开了一家店。他自称科吉亚·哈桑，由于既彬彬有礼又衣着体面，很快就与阿里巴巴的儿子成了朋友，并通过他结识了阿里巴巴，还经常请阿里巴巴与他共进晚餐。阿里巴巴想回报他的好意，便邀请他到自己家里，微笑着迎接他，感谢他对儿子的关照。商人正要告辞时，阿里巴巴拦住了他，说：“先生，您这么匆忙要去哪儿？何不留下来和我一起吃晚饭呢？”商人拒绝了，说自己事出有因；在阿里巴巴问他原因时，他回答道：“先生，是因为我不能吃任何带盐的食物。”“如果只是这样，”阿里巴巴说，“我可以告诉你，今晚我们吃的肉和面包里都绝不会放盐。”他去向莫吉安娜下达这个命令，莫吉安娜感到十分奇怪。“这个人是谁，”她说，“吃肉居然不放盐？”“他是个正派人，莫吉安娜，”她的主人回答道，“所以照我吩咐的去做吧。”但她忍不住想见见这个奇怪的人，便帮着阿卜杜拉端菜上楼，只看了一眼就认出科吉亚·哈桑正是强盗头领，而且衣袍下还藏着一把匕首。“怪不得，”她心里暗想，“这个企图杀害我主人的恶人，不愿和他同席吃盐；但我一定要挫败他的阴谋。”

The Captain returned to his lonely cave, which seemed frightful to him without his lost companions, and firmly resolved to avenge them by killing Ali Baba. He dressed himself carefully, and went into the town, where he took lodgings in an inn. In the course of a great many journeys to the forest he carried away many rich stuffs and much fine linen, and set up a shop opposite that of Ali Baba’s son. He called himself Cogia Hassan, and as he was both civil and well dressed he soon made friends with Ali Baba’s son, and through him with Ali Baba, whom he was continually asking to sup with him. Ali Baba, wishing to return his kindness, invited him into his house and received him smiling, thanking him for his kindness to his son. When the merchant was about to take his leave Ali Baba stopped him, saying: “Where are you going, sir, in such haste? Will you not stay and sup with me?” The merchant refused, saying that he had a reason; and, on Ali Baba’s asking him what that was, he replied: “It is, sir, that I can eat no victuals that have any salt in them.” “If that is all,” said Ali Baba, “let me tell you that there shall be no salt in either the meat or the bread that we eat to-night.” He went to give this order to Morgiana, who was much surprised. “Who is this man,” she said, “who eats no salt with his meat?” “He is an honest man, Morgiana,” returned her master; “therefore do as I bid you.” But she could not withstand a desire to see this strange man, so she helped Abdallah to carry up the dishes, and saw in a moment that Cogia Hassan was the robber Captain, and carried a dagger under his garment. “I am not surprised,” she said to herself, “that this wicked man, who intends to kill my master, will eat no salt with him; but I will hinder his plans.”

她让阿卜杜拉把晚饭送上去，自己则准备采取一件堪称最为大胆的举动。甜点端上之后，科吉亚·哈桑与阿里巴巴及其儿子独处一室，他打算把他们灌醉，然后将他们谋害。与此同时，莫吉安娜戴上了一顶舞女模样的头饰，腰间束了一条腰带，上面挂着一把银柄匕首，她对阿卜杜拉说：“带上你的手鼓，我们去给主人和他的客人解解闷吧。”阿卜杜拉拿起手鼓，在莫吉安娜身前演奏着引路，直到来到门前；阿卜杜拉停下击鼓，莫吉安娜深深行了一礼。“进来吧，莫吉安娜，”阿里巴巴说，“让科吉亚·哈桑看看你的本领。”接着他转向科吉亚·哈桑说：“她是我的女奴，也是我的管家。”科吉亚·哈桑心里很不高兴，因为他担心眼前除掉阿里巴巴的机会要泡汤了；但他还是装出一副极想看莫吉安娜表演的样子，于是阿卜杜拉奏起乐来，莫吉安娜跳起了舞。跳完几支舞后，她拔出匕首比画起来，时而对准自己的胸膛，时而对准主人的胸膛，仿佛这都是舞蹈的一部分。忽然，她气喘吁吁地用左手从阿卜杜拉手中夺过手鼓，右手握着匕首，把手鼓伸向主人。阿里巴巴和他的儿子往手鼓里放了一枚金币，科吉亚·哈桑见她朝自己走来，便掏出钱包想要打赏她，然而就在他把手伸进钱包的一刹那，莫吉安娜将匕首刺进了他的心脏。

She sent up the supper by Abdallah, while she made ready for one of the boldest acts that could be thought on. When the dessert had been served, Cogia Hassan was left alone with Ali Baba and his son, whom he thought to make drunk and then to murder them. Morgiana, meanwhile, put on a head-dress like a dancing-girl’s, and clasped a girdle round her waist, from which hung a dagger with a silver hilt, and said to Abdallah: “Take your tabor, and let us go and divert our master and his guest.” Abdallah took his tabor and played before Morgiana until they came to the door, where Abdallah stopped playing and Morgiana made a low courtesy. “Come in, Morgiana,” said Ali Baba, “and let Cogia Hassan see what you can do”; and, turning to Cogia Hassan, he said: “She’s my slave and my housekeeper.” Cogia Hassan was by no means pleased, for he feared that his chance of killing Ali Baba was gone for the present; but he pretended great eagerness to see Morgiana, and Abdallah began to play and Morgiana to dance. After she had performed several dances she drew her dagger and made passes with it, sometimes pointing it at her own breast, sometimes at her master’s, as if it were part of the dance. Suddenly, out of breath, she snatched the tabor from Abdallah with her left hand, and, holding the dagger in her right hand, held out the tabor to her master. Ali Baba and his son put a piece of gold into it, and Cogia Hassan, seeing that she was coming to him, pulled out his purse to make her a present, but while he was putting his hand into it Morgiana plunged the dagger into his heart.

“不幸的姑娘啊！”阿里巴巴和他的儿子惊叫道，“你做了什么，要害惨我们吗？”

“Unhappy girl!” cried Ali Baba and his son, “what have you done to ruin us?”