10/18 "It was on the 26th of last month," he answered, shortly. "You have just six months in all to live from that date. They will offer you up by Tu-Kila-Kila's hut the day the sun reaches the summer solstice." "But why did they make us gods then ?" Felix interposed, with tremulous lips. "Why treat us with such honors meanwhile, if they mean in the end to kill us ?" He received his sentence of death with greater calmness than the Frenchman had expected. "Monsieur," the older arrival answered, with a reflective air, "there comes in the mystery. |