"See what he did to me," she said, with a mute appeal for sympathy--though in that particular matter the truth was not in her.

"Your god was angry with me to-day because I hurt his hand, and he clutched me by the throat, and almost choked me.

He has a bad heart.
See how he bit me and drew blood.

Some of these days, I believe, he will kill me and eat me." The Shadow glanced around him suspiciously with an uneasy air.

Then he whispered low, in a voice half grudge, half terror, "If he does, he is a great god--he can search all the world--I fear him much, but Toko's heart is warm.