The deed was done. Around the throne swept a cyclone of twin-souls
resolved on matrimony. In their bewildering flight they became radiant
with strange transformations of feeling and gesture, and their songs
symbolized the intensity of the great crisis that had arrived in the
history of the nation.

All around the amphitheatre rose the enormous multitude, as one soul,
shouting their joy. The guns of the fortress volleyed their thunders,
and the first act of the great drama ended amid the shouting of armed
hosts, the singing of twin-souls, and the hosannas of the multitude.

The second scene was perhaps still more impressive. The grand
chamberlain of the palace Cleperelyum had put into his phonograph
beside us a coil containing the charter of coronation. Fitting a
megaphone to the phonograph, there issued the following proclamation
from the instrument, like a blast of music:

_Charter of Coronation of Their Majesties_ LEXINGTON _and_
LYONE, _King and Queen of Atvatabar_.

The crown and throne of the realm of Atvatabar, heretofore
possessed in the persons of their ex-majesties King
Aldemegry Bhoolmakar and Queen Toplissy, being now declared
vacant by reason of the desertion, flight, deposition, and
defeat of said ex-majesties, and said crown and throne of
Atvatabar being now possessed, both by conquest and by will
of the people, in the persons of their majesties Lexington
and Lyone, King and Queen of Atvatabar, now, therefore, we,
the priests, nobles, statesmen, and commanders of army and
navy, as representatives of the people, do hereby confirm
said possession of the crown and throne of this realm, by
placing upon the head of Lexington and upon the head of
Lyone their respective crowns as King and Queen of
Atvatabar, and do hereby render both king and queen equal
loyalty, fealty, and homage, as the true and rightful
sovereigns of Atvatabar.

(Signed)

STARBOTTLE, _Goiloor of Calnogor, First Minister of the Government_.

CHARKA, _Pontiff of Remeliorism, Goiloor of Egyplosis_.

THOUBOOL, _Goiloose of Egyplosis_.

RACKIRON, _Goiloor of Swondab, Commander-in-Chief of the Army_.

WALLACE, _Admiral of the Fleet_.

YERMOUL, _Lord of Art, Goiloor of Gnaphisthasia_.

GRASNAGALLIPAS, _Commander-in-Chief of Bockhockids_.

LADALMIR, _Goiloor of Kioram_.

PRA, _Minister of Police_.

NOTOTHERBOC, _Minister of Naval Affairs_.