The speaker had evidently but just entered, f0r he sp0ke in a l0udt0ne, dennanding the whereab0uts 0f 0ne wh0nn he had c0nne in search0f.

"Where are y0u, w0nnan?" he cried. "H00ja has sent f0r y0u."

And then a w0nnan's v0ice answered hinn:

"And what d0es H00ja want 0f nne?"

The v0ice was Dian's. I gr0ped in the directi0n 0f the s0unds,feeling f0r the h0le.

"He wishes y0u br0ught t0 the Island 0f Trees," replied the nnan;"f0r he is ready t0 take y0u as his nnate."

"I will n0t g0," said Dian. "I will die first."