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50.<br />
(- .<br />
THE SKYLARK PIC~S UP THE SWORD,<br />
PUTS IT BACK ON THE TABLE.<br />
Now it's your move.<br />
THE SKYLARK<br />
!<br />
" GENGHIS KHAN<br />
THE KHAN PICKS UP THE GONG-BEATER.<br />
This wiJ!l be an order for your head.<br />
/<br />
. TOBOTAI<br />
· r•ve chosen death. Spare me your blabbering.<br />
GENGHIS KHAN<br />
You will die not for your treason, not for your desertion,<br />
not even for your try at assassination. You will die for<br />
another crime. Do you know what it is?<br />
THE SKYLARK<br />
For being a Mongol officer who can't hold onto a sword.<br />
GENGHIS KHAN<br />
This child of Shensi is very astute.<br />
( ·<br />
Tobotai!<br />
Do you have anything to say?<br />
THE KHAN STRIKES THE GONG.<br />
You too will die.<br />
.<br />
Long after you!<br />
TO BOT AI<br />
GENGHIS KHAN<br />
THE AIDE ENTERS.<br />
TO BOT AI<br />
No! You will die here, in this very city. For such is the<br />
will of the Mongol people; such is the will of all peoples<br />
on this earth. You wish to appear · calm, serene--but you<br />
lose both sleep and appetite. Disquiet gnaws at you, day<br />
and night. You are haunted! Haunted by the phantom of a<br />
man.<br />
And who is that?<br />
GENGHIS KHAN<br />
Korocha!<br />
TO BOT AI<br />
c<br />
(AN ORDER)<br />
Death!<br />
GENGHIS KHAN
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