Let the Snake be appeased.

Command had been given that all such stones should be hidden in a secret place by him who had wrought the crime, and, as he had said, if the man returned alive from that place he should be slain.

But he would not return alive, for to go thither was death, as it should be death henceforth even to mention that stone, of which but one should now be seen in the land, that which the Mother wore in memory of the past.
"O Otter, my friend," murmured Leonard to himself, "if I don't make you pay for this, my name is not Outram!" But enough of the stones, went on Nam; he had come upon a more important matter.

That night an assembly of all the tribe would be held in the great temple an hour before moonrise, that the Mother and the Snake might take up their royalty in the presence of the people.

Thither they would come to lead them and their servants at the appointed time.