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Megapenthes
Not for worlds, Madam Klotho. Let me go up for a little while. Then I will come to you by my own free-will at no one's summons.
Klotho
What is the reason you want to go?
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Megapenthes
Give me time to finish my house. I left my dwelling behind half built.
Megapenthes
I do not ask for a long time, Fate. Let me stay just this one day, to appear to my wife and tell her something about my moneywhere I kept my great treasure hidden.
Klotho
It is fixed. You cannot do it.
Megapenthes
Then will all that gold be lost?
10
Klotho
Not at all; you may be at ease about that. Your cousin Megakles will get hold of it.
Megapenthes
Oh, what an affront! My enemy, whom I was too easy-going to put to death before me?
Klotho
The same. He will survive you forty years and something over, in possession of your harem and your clothes and all your wealth.
Mcgapenthes
It is unjust, Klotho, to assign my property to my greatest enemies.
Klotho
I suppose, my noble sir, that you did not seize it when it belonged to Kydimachos, murdering the man himself and then slaying his children on their father's warm body?
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Megapenthes
But at present it was mine.
Klotho
Well, your time of possession had run out.
Megapenthes
Listen, Klotho. There is something I should like to say to you in private without witnesses. You others step aside a moment. If you will give me a chance to run away I promise to give you this day a million dollars in coin of the realm.
Klotho
You are absurd. Can you not get gold and dollars out of your head yet?
