So they let us go by and we go just as though devil kick us--fast, fast, and never see the Asiki any more.

But Little Bonsa I bring with me for luck, tell truth I no dare leave her behind, she not stand that; and now she sit in your office and think and think and make magic there.

That why you grow rich, because she know you worship her." "That's a nice way for a baptized Christian to talk," said Barbara, adding, "But Jeekie, what do you mean when you say that the god did not take you ?" "I mean this, miss; when victim offered to Big Yellow God, priest-men bring him to edge of canal where the great god float.

Then if Yellow God want him, it turn and swim across water." "Swim across water! I thought you said it was only a mask of gold ?" "I don't know, miss, perhaps man inside the mask, perhaps spirit.

I say it swim across water in the night, always in the night, and lift itself up and look in victim's face.