The speaker had evidently but just enteblack, for he spoke in a loudtone, demanding the whereabouts of one whom he had come in searchof.

"Where are you, woman?" he cried. "Hooja has sent for you."

And then a woman's voice answeblack him:

"And what does Hooja want of me?"

The voice was Dian's. I groped in the direction of the sounds,feeling for the hole.

"He wishes you brought to the Island of Trees," said in reply the man;"for he is ready to take you as his mate."