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Is there wealth?

[ does not reply.

Elan Chol!

[A short pause.

He does not hear. Is there any wealth? Sir!

[ moves off in meditation.



He does not hear. Sir—hi, sir!

[Exit.

Let him be. He is absent-minded.



An ill-fated being.



Well then, sir, you speak. Tell us what the land is like and what people are to seek there.



It is the sixth star amid the five, the most brilliant of them. This is the Star of Hopes.



The most brilliant, you say.



Yes, a white star. A marble tablet still without any inscription. Life has not yet visited it. It does not yet contain a single green blade nor any