"Then be careful that you don't repeat the impossible tale youtold Sol-to-to just now--another world, indeed, where human beingsrule!" he concluded in fine scorn.

"But it is the truth," I insisted. "From where else then did Icome? I am not of Pellucidar. Anyone with half an eye could seethat."

"It is your misfortune then," he remarked dryly, "that you may notbe judged by one with but half an eye."

"What will they do with me," I asked, "if they do not have a mindto believe me?"