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26.<br />
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GENGHIS KHAN<br />
Thanks to the General's reasoning, you will keep your head<br />
for now. (TO AIDE) Have him locked up.<br />
Yes, Your Highness.<br />
AIDE<br />
I<br />
thank you, General.<br />
OLD MAN<br />
JEBAY<br />
You ought, rather, to thank the Skylark.<br />
OLD MAN<br />
I feel that Your Highness will want to see me again.<br />
GENGHIS KHAN<br />
(POINTING TO THE PEARL) I keep my word. I gave you that<br />
pearl. Pick it up.<br />
OLD :MAN<br />
I too keep my word. I said that I could not accept it.<br />
(TO AIDE) Let's be off.<br />
/<br />
i . :·.<br />
~:<br />
THEY EXIT. GENGHIS KHAN PICKS UP<br />
THE PEARL, ADMIRES IT, SETS IT ON<br />
THE TABLE.<br />
GENGHIS KHAN<br />
What a foolish old man.<br />
THE AIDE RE-ENTERS, STANDS AT AT~<br />
T&\JTION.<br />
Ah, but there are two more conditions!<br />
Go on.<br />
AIDE<br />
He would like to rest tonight. He will appear before the<br />
<strong>Khan</strong> tomorrow afternoon. He is too tired to think freely.<br />
{AFTER A. HESITATION)<br />
GENGHIS KHAN<br />
So be it. And the third?<br />
. AIDE<br />
I dare not report it without the <strong>Khan</strong>'s promise to spare my<br />
life.<br />
JEBAY<br />
You have the <strong>Khan</strong> '.s · consent to speak.<br />
AIDE<br />
He says--that he cannot sleep alone, because he's afraid of<br />
ghosts. He requests a pretty maidservant, to help him forget<br />
that the night is long.<br />
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