Unlock rooms and chests and use freely what you will."
Let us take the gems and gold from the chests and flee, using the secret passageway."
The chests were empty, their treasure lying in a shimmering mass upon the bloodstained floor.
At some distance they saw Cassim's mules straggling about the rock, with great chests on their backs.
When Babo came the next morning the king gave him ten chests full of money, and that made the simpleton richer than anybody in all that land.
Cassim rose the next morning long before the sun, and set out for the forest with ten mules bearing great chests, which he designed to fill, and followed the road which Ali Baba had pointed out to him.
"He," indicating the corpse on the floor, "said, 'I got here first.' Does that mean Kane was pursuing him here?" And as the Wolf nodded impatiently the other turned to the chests with chattering haste.
At these words a murmur of amazement escaped from a thousand panting chests; then succeeded a moment of perfect silence, resembling that profound stillness which precedes the bursting of a thunderstorm.