“-And the Dimaians did not pass through the stream of Darmo. It was haunted; a bell could be heard at noon. Because they murdered Darmo there. With the Arabs, the blacks. They took his head and took it to Loukou, to the nuns.

The old women opened a grave in the monks' cemetery and buried it; near the bridge, among the tall cypress trees by the stream. They incensed this monument for forty days, the Christian women. And the remains, the women from Chantaki went with shovels and buried it unceremoniously. Darmo, a public school teacher. At noon in the desolation, the bell you mentioned.

-Do you remember anything else? -Why do you want to know? (. . .)”