SCENE VI.
[The Wazir's garden. No characters on scene]
| Wazir rhythm | Nubian enters from left, holding the Shepherd |
| The Wazir and Vizier follow | |
| Tap | Wazir takes his seat, smirking |
| Tap | Wazir orders Shepherd thrown down at the right |
| Drum crash | Nubian complies |
| Tap | Vizier orders Nubian off right |
| Wazir rhythm, fast | Nubian hurries out |
| Wazir rhythm, slow | Reënters, staggering under a ball and chain [the chain of papier maché and the ball a balloon] |
| Drum crash | Drops these beside the Shepherd |
| Clank, clank | Rivets chain to Shepherd's leg |
| Tap | Rises |
| Tap | Vizier orders Nubian off, left |
| Wazir rhythm | Nubian exits left |
| Tap | Vizier sits |
| Tap | Wazir moves a chessman |
| Tap | Vizier moves a chessman |
| Tap | Shepherd, in a gesture of despair, finds the telescope |
| He looks into the "Distance" | |
| [The "Distance" is shown as in Scene I] | |
| Stringed music | Princess and Goat discovered in conference. Goat has an idea. He points to the Shepherd, then to the Wazir, then to the Princess and executes an ancient dance movement which is contemporaneously described as the "shimmy" |
| The Princess claps her hands and exits, followed by the Goat | |
| Tap | Shepherd lowers the telescope |
| [The "Distance" vanishes] | |
| Tap | Shepherd is puzzled |
| Stringed music | Princess enters from the left, veiled and carrying a scarf in her hands |
| Goat enters with her, goes at once to the Shepherd | |
| Princess poses at center | |
| Wazir and Vizier turn, smirking | |
| Princess dances | |
| Wazir leers and strokes his beard | |
| Princess ends dance beside Vizier | |
| Chords, agitato | She ties his arms with her scarf |
| Sand blocks | Wazir is convulsed with laughter |
| Chords | Princess binds Wazir's arms with her veil |
| Sand blocks | Vizier is convulsed with laughter |
| Princess rhythm on wood drum | The Attendant enters from the left with a box on which a skull and cross-bones are conspicuous |
| Tap | Princess takes two pills from the box |
| Tap | She pops them into her prisoners' open mouths |
| Princess rhythm | The Attendant exits as she came |
| Sand blocks | Wazir and Vizier swallow vigorously |
| Drum crash | They lay their heads upon the chess table and die |
| Tap | Princess beckons to the Shepherd |
| Tap | Shepherd points to his fetters |
| Tap | Goat attacks the ball and chain |
| Drum crash | He "bites" the ball [bursts the balloon] |
| Tap | He "bites" the chain. |
| String music | Princess, Shepherd and Goat dance in a circle |
| Cymbal crash | Lights out |
| Princess and Shepherd and Goat ready at left for next scene | |
| The drop is lowered | |
| Cymbal crash | Lights up |