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Several characteristic graveyard characters got up with white paint and carrying poles and baskets, swell the crowd and there is a typical market scene of bargaining, pushing, and screaming. Upon this enters Grantang, with delicate gestures, dressed splendidly in white and gold and green, with a glorious head-dress. While his servant jokes with the crowd he winds up the stage with the majestic grace of Rama, and receives the homage of the crowd with a dreamy, abstracted, infinitely noble air. Resplendent though he is an old shirt is offered to him, perhaps in allusion to the former market scene when he came naked, and half-starved out of the forest. Tjoepak's servant invites all the market people to the wedding, and they then disperse, followed by Grantang, still marvelously dancing.

At a gesture from him they fall prostrate, then rise again to attack, and are again overthrown by a gesture. As there is no suggestion of Tjoepak possessing magic power, the whole fight is perhaps only staged to parade his glory. He bellows for the princess to watch him and while he looks away Grantang enters slowly, tender-voiced, and subtle, accompanied by an exquisite melody on the gamelan. He speaks with smooth and honeyed tones, sitting on the ground in charming poses, continually modified. There is a soft throbbing in the gamelan as he tells that he has come, as invited, to fight Mantri Anom. Tjoepak is somehow disquieted by this gentle apparition, and orders him to be driven away; but Grantang does not go. With effeminate voice and gestures he lifts his lance. As in the story he pretends at first to be vanquished and is beaten down and kicked.

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