Atondido Stories
prince; I never saw such a handsome man as you are before; and
yet I know you must be my husband." Then she worshipped
God and thanked him for letting her have such a husband. "I
have," she said, "a beautiful husband. There is no one like him in
this country. He has a moon on his forehead and a star on his
chin." Then she took him into the palace, and showed him to her
father and mother and to every one. They all said they had never
seen any one like him, and were all very happy. And the young
prince lived as before in the King's palace with his wife, and Ka-
tar lived in the King's stables.
One day, when the King and his seven sons-in-law were in
his court- house, and it was full of people, the young prince said
to him, "There are six thieves here in your court-house." "Six
thieves!" said the King. "Where are they? Show them to me."
"There they are," said the young prince, pointing to his six
brothers-in-law. The King and every one else in the court-house
were very much astonished, and would not believe the young
prince. "Take off their coats," he said, "and then you will see for
yourselves that each of them has the mark of a thief on his back."
So their coats were taken off the six princes, and the King and
everybody in the court-house saw the mark of the red-hot pice.
The six princes were very much ashamed, but the young prince
was very glad. He had not forgotten how his brothers-in-law had
laughed at him and mocked him when he seemed a poor, com-
mon man. Now, when Katar was still in the jungle, before the
prince was married, he had told the boy the whole story of his
birth, and all that had happened to him and his mother. "When
you are married," he said to him, "I will take you back to your fa-
ther's country." So two months after the young prince had re-
venged himself on his brothers-in-law, Katar said to him, "It is
time for you to return to your father. Get the King to let you go
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