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All look with tense attention at Anathema's mouth.

ANATHEMA.

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Taking out a paper, solemnly.

Are you not David Leizer, the son of Abraham Leizer?

LEIZER.

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Frightened.

Well, yes, I am. But there may be another David Leizer. I don't know—ask the people.

ANATHEMA.

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Interrupting him with a gesture.

Didn't you have a brother, Moses Leizer, who fled to America thirty-five years ago on the Italian steamship Fortuna?

ALL.

Yes, he did.

DAVID.

But I did not know that he was in America.

ANATHEMA.

David Leizer, your brother Moses died!

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