and New Mexico, instantly felt that timeless, primeval passion of the prehistoric races, with their intense and complicated religious significance, spreading on the air.
She looked inquiringly at Juana, and Juana’s black eyes glanced back at her furtively.
“What is it?” said Kate.
“Musicians, singers,” said Juana evasively.
“But it’s different,” said Kate.
“Yes, it is new.”
“New?”
“Yes, it has only been coming for a short time.”
“Where does it come from?”
“Who knows!” said Juana, with an evasive shrug of her shoulders.
“I want to hear,” said Kate.
“It’s purely men,” said Juana.
“Still, one can stand a little way off.”
Kate moved towards the dense, silent throng of men in big hats. They all had their backs to her.
She stood on the step of one of the houses, and saw a little clearing at the centre of the dense throng of men, under the stone wall over which bougainvillea and plumbago flowers were hanging, lit up by