Chapters 21 and 22 Summary

In chapter twenty-one, the elevator to the main floor is painfully slow. Office Chee thinks that he and Lieutenant Leaphorn should have taken the six flights of stairs - it would have been faster. On the way down, he confirms for Leaphorn that the man with the damaged hands who goes by the alias Gomez is really Miguel Santerno. Chee believes that Highhawk was talking to Santerno on the phone just before Highhawk disappeared. Leaphorn worries that nothing but conjecture connects Santerno, Highhawk, Santillanes and the red-haired man.

Chee guesses that Santerno has planted a bomb in the Masks of the Americas exhibit, in an attempt to kill the Chilean general. The best place for a bomb would be inside the Yeibichai mask. The elevator door finally opens on the first floor. They agree that the younger, faster Chee will go...