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MULLAH. Allah akbar barai! How dost?
CHAMBERLAIN. Allah! Eloim! I thank you, excellently.
MULLAH. Is the Renunciation Act made out in duplicate form?
CHAMBERLAIN. In duplicate form. Will you be good enough to compare,
then he will only have to add his signature.
MULLAH. If there's time enough, it would be the better way.
[Chamberlain takes two papers from table and hands one to the
Mullah.]
CHAMBERLAIN. [Reads aloud.] "We, Omar the twenty-seventh, do hereby
solemnly forswear our--the Roman Catholic--faith, and adopt the
Mohammedan doctrine as it is determined in the Koran and the sacred
writings."
Dated, etc.
OMAR.
Correct?
MULLAH. Correct.
[Enter Pehr--Grand Vizier and Royal Historian having entered just
before him. Ameer jumps up from the floor with the genealogical
chart; Royal Historian stands quietly and jots down in a book what
he hears.]
VIZIER. Will it please Your Highness to scan this ancestral chart,
which our--and the Kingdom's Ameer has made of Your Highness'
illustrious old family tree.
PEHR. My ancestral chart? I have never known of any relative but my
father, the old sexton.
VIZIER. [Pretends not to hear.] It begins with a great and glorious
name--Caliph Omar--
PEHR. Caliph Omar! What kind of fish is that?
VIZIER. [Sternly.] That is no fish. He was a great and honorable
ruler.
PEHR. Be that as it may, but I was born in wedlock and not between
satin sheets, good gentlemen!
VIZIER.
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