The statue of Fate was no more! It lay broken upon the pavement among those fragments of its two worshippers which I had seen shaken down some hours before.
"What does this mean ?" I whispered to Yva.

"I have felt no other earthquake." "I do not know," she answered, "or if I know I may not say.

Yet learn that no god can live on without a single worshipper, and, in a fashion, that idol was alive, though this you will not believe." "How very remarkable," said Bastin, contemplating the ruin.

"If I were superstitious, which I am not, I should say that this occurrence was an omen indicating the final fall of a false god.

At any rate it is dead now, and I wonder what caused it ?" "I felt an earth tremor last night," said Bickley, "though it is odd that it should only have affected this particular statue.