First Man:
Is there wealth?
[Elan Chol does not reply.
The Stripling:
Elan Chol!
[A short pause.
First Man:
He does not hear. Is there any wealth? Sir!
[Elan Chol moves off in meditation.
The Man with the Spade:
He does not hear. Sir—hi, sir!
[Exit Elan Chol.
Pieris:
Let him be. He is absent-minded.
First Man:
An ill-fated being.
The Man with the Spade:
Well then, sir, you speak. Tell us what the land is like and what people are to seek there.
Pieris:
It is the sixth star amid the five, the most brilliant of them. This is the Star of Hopes.
The Stripling, First Man and the Man with the Spade:
The most brilliant, you say.
Pieris:
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
