Do you understand me ?" Tu-Kila-Kila drew back, and gazed around him suspiciously.

In all his experience no one had ever dared to address him like that.

Assuredly, the stranger from the sun must be a very great god--how great, he hardly dared to himself to realize.

He shrugged his shoulders.

"When we mighty deities of the first order speak together, face to face," he said, with an uneasy air, "it is not well that the mere common herd of men should overhear our profound deliberations.