If this were true--and not for an instant did I doubt her--then not for a few hours had we lain there at the foot of the living wall in the Hall of the Cones--but for the balance of that day and that night, and another day and part of still another night.
"What does she say ?" Drake stared anxiously into my whitened face.

I told him.
"Yes." Norhala spoke again.

"The dusk before the last dusk that has passed I returned to my house.

The maid was there and sorrowing.

She told me you had gone into the valley, prayed me to help you and to bring you back.