OLD SLAVE Will Argimenes give me a sword?
ZARB He will have swords for six of us if he slays the slave-guard.
Yes, he will give you a sword.
SLAVE A sword! No, no, I must not; the King would kill me if he found that I had a sword.
SECOND SLAVE (slowly, as one who develops an idea) If the King found that I had a sword, why then it would be an evil day for the King. (They all look off left.)
ZARB I think that they are playing at dice again.
FIRST SLAVE I do not see Argimenes.
ZARB No, because he was crouching as he walked. The slave-guard is on the sky-line.
SECOND SLAVE What is that dark shadow behind the slave-guard?
ZARB It is too still to be Argimenes.
SECOND SLAVE Look! It moves.