She looked shocked at me more than once.

Now, about the old Christian faith, you know--their god was content with one sacrifice, instead of one each year, though he insisted on having the body eaten and the blood drunk perpetually.

Yet I suppose, sir, that the Christian god, in this limiting of the human sacrifice to one person, may be said to show a distinct advance over the god of the Bakairi, though he seems to have been equally a tribal god, whose chief function it was to make war upon neighbouring tribes." "Yes, my boy--quite so," replied the old man most soothingly.

He stepped gently to the door.

Halfway down the hall Allan was about to turn into his room.