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SECOND TRAVELER<br />
I have some business to do in Gurgenj.<br />
FIRST TRAVELER<br />
Muslim country? What luck! That's where I'm going: we'll<br />
be traveling companions. (TO THIRD TRAVELER) And you?<br />
THIRD TRAVELER<br />
I'll be with you part of the way. I'm going to Persia.<br />
FIRST TRAVELER THRows · A FEW BRANCHES<br />
ON THE FIRE, POKES IT A LITTLE.<br />
SECOND TRAVELER<br />
The wood's almost gone. Innkeeper! Is there any more wood?<br />
INNKEEPER<br />
Will the gentlemen require anything else?<br />
THE INNKEEPER WAKES ' UP WI~H A START,<br />
GETS A BUNDLE OF BRANCHES FROM A<br />
CORNER OF THE ROOM, PLACES IT BE<br />
SIDE THE HEARTH.<br />
..<br />
c ·.<br />
FIRST TRAVELER<br />
No thanks, my friend, that'll be all.<br />
SECOND'"'TRAVELER<br />
Do you live all alone here?<br />
Yes, all ·alone.<br />
Aren't you ,afraid?<br />
(SURPRISED)<br />
Of what?<br />
INNKEEPER<br />
SECOND TRAVELER<br />
INNKEEPER<br />
_<br />
. FIRST TRAVELER<br />
Well, the place is so isolated.<br />
SECOND TRAVELER<br />
You're not bothered by highwaymen?<br />
Why should I be?<br />
INNKEEPER<br />
I don't own a.p.ything.<br />
FIRST TRAVELER<br />
And, a few months back, when the Mongols were here--you had<br />
no trouble?<br />
Ir-...TNKEEPER<br />
They made us pay some taxes. That's all.<br />
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