OHANO. [_Scornfully._] But a gazing globe shows men the way to their heart's desire.
NIJO. It reflects to men what they see into it. So does glory.
NIJO. Behold what it has done to me! Already as a child I gazed at that globe, longing to grasp the glory of which it was a symbol. It filled me with a red madness, surged with an unbearable music, giving me a riotous pain! Oh, it made me drunk for the wine of glory!
OHANO. I know! I know! Now you talk as the man I thought you were.
OHANO. But you have known the glory of life. Shall I never know the way to it? [_Appealingly, to the globe._] The way--the way is what I seek!
ZAMA. Look not so upon the evil ball, child. It do be enchanted for one thousand years! [OHANO _moves nearer the globe_.] Go not so near, child! Evil will fall--and you will be enslaved!
OHANO. What care I, if it shows me the way? [_Hands outstretched to the globe._
ZAMA. [_Appealingly to_ NIJO.] Sir, I pray you do be stopping her. She do be always gazing at that golden ball; and slowly it do be drawing her within its enchanted grasp. And it do be an enchanted ball!
NIJO. Perhaps there's more to its enchantment than I thought. It claimed me for a victim--and now it's freezing her life's warmth to the falseness of Orient pearl.
OHANO. [_Murmuring to the globe._] The way--the way! I must have the way!
NIJO. [_Swiftly drawing his sword._] I will not show you--but I'll save you! [_Starts toward the gazing globe._
ZAMA. [_Barring his path._] Nijo, sir, what do you be doing?
NIJO. [_With a flourish of his sword._] I kill the thing that freezes another heart!
ZAMA. That do mean ruin! It be an enchanted ball!
NIJO. [_Brushing past_ ZAMA.] It will enchant no longer!!
NIJO. [_Running up pedestal steps._] Yes!!
[_With a mighty blow he strikes the gazing globe with his sword. Frightened_, OHANO _shrinks to one side, facing right, as a thunder-like crash follows the blow, and pieces of the globe tumble to the ground--all but one piece that remains upon the pedestal. Then from a moon off stage right shines a straight golden path across the sea to the bit of gazing globe on the pedestal._
OHANO. [_Triumphantly._] The moon--The way! At last the way! From the gazing globe--the golden path to the moon of glory. Now I am free!