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."