Where the dead are living, and the living are dead.

The deeps that life cannot fathom,

The Source and the End, of which we know

Only that it is, and its life is our life and our death.

All men cover their eyes

Before the unseen.

All men be lost in silence,

Within the noiseless.”

The church was utterly still, all men standing with a hand pressed over their eyes.

Till there was one note of a silver gong, and the green candles of Malintzi were being lighted in the altar place.—Ramón’s voice was heard again: