Here she remembered was the ascent to the estufa, here she had to perform the work, and here overpowered by emotion and excitement she dropped behind an angular block of stone unconscious.
When she recovered, the chorus sounded directly above her, and the chant seemed to soar away like voices from an upper world.

She glanced up the dark fissure as through a flume.

The cross-beams were faintly visible.
Over the cleft rested a moonlit sky, but to the rocks clung the figure of a man.

That man stood there a moment only, then shouting a few words as if calling to somebody within, he disappeared.

The song was hushed.
Say recognized the speaker; it was Tyope, Shotaye's former husband, and the one whom the woman suspected of having done her harm.