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He strode forward to the table and touched a bell, and almost

immediately an ancient woman with a wrinkled monkey-like, nut-brown

face, tanned by wind and weather, appeared through an opening concealed

by a curtain in the further wall She was obviously of great age, but

her eyes were bright and sparkling with intelligence, and she was

active in her movements

"This is Mother Dolores, ill attend you," Cojuelo explained, after

giving the woue "She has a

change of clothing and refreshe while I attend to the disposal of h the aperture in the wall, and Mother Dolores,

after inspecting Myra appraisingly and ad away in

Spanish idioma meanwhile, indicated to the fair prisoner that she

wished her to accoular es, and Myra

saw that Cojuelo's e freak of nature,

probably the result of a volcanic upheaval or an earthquake in soe It was a series of caves connected with fissures, a

sort of irregular honeycomb of rock

"Apartiamento--dormitorio," were the only words Myra understood of the

flood Dolores let loose as she ushered her into one of the cave-rooms,