CHAPTER XXII.
THE TEMPLE OF JAL In considerable agitation of mind Leonard bid good-bye to Juanna, promising to return soon, and went to visit the Settlement men, whom he had not seen since the previous evening.
He found them in good case enough, so far as their material comfort was concerned, for they were well supplied with food and warmly lodged.

So much could not be said, however, of their mental state, for they were terrified by the multitude of solemn priests and warriors who watched them as cats watch mice.

Crouching round him dejectedly they implored Leonard not to leave them, saying that they expected to be murdered every minute.

He pacified them as well as he could and left them with the assurance that he would return presently, having first reminded them that the lives of all depended upon the maintenance of the delusion as to the divinity of Otter and the Shepherdess.
The remainder of that day passed heavily enough.

After the first excitement of their strange position had gone by a reaction set in, and everybody was much depressed.