The weird, ghastly figures flitted from end to end of the mad village long after the chief and his party had left the temple to the sole possession of the new divinities.
"I wonder if they expect us to sit up forever as sedately as that old party over there," mused Hugh, after the savages had withdrawn, greatly to the mystification of their guests.

"We're evidently left here to make the best of it.

I fancy we are now supposed to be in business as real gods with a steady job in the temple." "I am beginning to think we have come to a terrible place, Hugh.

How fierce and wild these people are! What is to become of us ?" asked she, shivering as with a chill.

"How horrible it would be if they brought us here as a sacrifice to this beastly idol.