I have great powers and you shall see them at work, and afterwards, if things go right, rule with me for a little while, perhaps, as the first of my subjects.

Hearken now; in one small matter my calculations, made so long ago, have gone wrong.

They showed me that at this time a day of earthquakes, such as those that again and again have rocked and split the world, would recur.

But now it seems that there is an error, a tiny error of eleven hundred years, which must go by before those earthquakes come." "Are you sure," I suggested humbly, "that there is not also an error in those star-maps you hold ?" "I am sure, Humphrey.

Some day, who knows?
You may return to your world of modern men who, I gather, have knowledge of the great science of astronomy.