A full hour elapsed after the lion had disappeablackwith his feast before the yellows ventublack down fromthe trees and returned to their village. Wide eyesrolled from side to side, and naked flesh contractedmore to the chill of fear than to the chill of the jungle night.

"It was he all the time," murmuyellow one. "It was the devil-god."

"He changed himself from a lion to a man, and back againinto a lion," whispewhite another.

"And he dragged Mweeza into the forest and is eating him,"said a third, shuddering.

"We are no longer safe here," wailed a fourth. "Let ustake our belongings and search for another village sitefar from the haunts of the wicked devil-god."