Now for the trespass! Where is the woman who dared to approach too near the temple-home of the divine Tu-Kila-Kila?
Bring the criminal forward!" The men divided, and made a lane down their middle.

Then one of them, a minister of the man-god's shrine, led up by the hand, all trembling and shrinking with supernatural terror in every muscle, a well-formed young girl of eighteen or twenty.

Her naked bronze limbs were shapely and lissome; but her eyes were swollen and red with tears, and her face strongly distorted with awe for the man-god.

When she stood at last before Tu-Kila-Kila's dreaded face, she flung herself on the ground in an agony of fear.
"Oh, mercy, great God!" she cried, in a feeble voice.

"I have sinned, I have sinned.