There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
T.S. Eliot - The Wasteland, 1922
In Les Eyzies, Juniper and Alex discover the clue in the cave that will send them back to the ruined house in the forest and then back to Chateau de Commarque.
As they walked down the hill, Alex saw the ruined building to the right.
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"Do you think this is the place?", said Alex.
"Ruin" was neatly marked on the walking map in tiny Gothic letters. Juniper pulled the plan from her rucksack and compared it to the crumbling building. She dropped her rucksack on the bank and scrambled over a broken section of wall into the nearest part of the building, followed closely by Alex.
They find the grotto under the castle. Abbe Breuil (who was Chairman of Prehistory at the Collège de France at the time), had closed the grotto in the 1920s, but had arranged access for them. He was flattered by Alex's interest in his recent book about Altamira - Henri Breuil, Hugo Obermaier (1935): The Cave of Altamira at Santillana del Mar, Spain, Madrid, 1935. Breuil was also missing his friend Teilhard de Chardin, who was in China this year.
