Four fat Slavers were present, dressed in their finery, for a private viewing of a stunningly beautiful slave girl, on whom they were each to place a sealed bid. (It is whispered that she was a Ubar's daughter, but the identity of the Ubar has been hushed up. Rumours that it was Talena, the daughter of Marlenus, must be considered fanciful.) When she was brought in, each slaver displayed a different mark of surprise and bid an immense sum of money for the slave. The bids were in two-hundred-tarn increments and the smallest bid was six hundred tarns.

Tezkar was the second fattest Slaver

The Slaver who dropped a full goblet of wine bid a thousand tarns

The Slaver who carried a gold lorgnette bid 200 tarns more than the man

who swore by the Priest-Kings

The Slaver who fell off his chair wore a set of matching pearl rings on all his fingers

The thinnest man, who wore a silver-embroidered robe, bid more than Bronto the Slaver

He who spluttered incoherently was the next fatter Slaver than the one who bid 800 tarns

Spencius the Slaver was fatter than Effim, and wore a jewelled turban

Who bought the slave?