"Don't be frightened, man; can't you understand that the power of our medicine has blown the head off the sphinx high into the air, and landed it where it sits now ?" "Yes," I put in, "and what we felt in the cave was the shock of its fall." "I don't care what brought him," replied Japhet, who seemed quite unstrung by all that he had gone through.

"All I know is that the prophecy is fulfilled, and Harmac has come to Mur, and where Harmac goes the Fung follow." "So much the better," said the irreverent Higgs.

"I may be able to sketch and measure him now." But I saw that Maqueda was trembling, for she, too, thought this occurrence a very bad omen, and even Oliver remained silent, perhaps because he feared its effect upon the Abati.
Nor was this wonderful since, from the talk around us, clearly that effect was great.

Evidently the people were terrified, like Japhet.

We could hear them foreboding ill, and cursing us Gentiles as wizards, who had not destroyed the idol of the Fung as we promised, but had only caused him to fly to Mur.
Here I may mention that as a matter of fact they were right.