In terr0r the villagers fled hither and thither. N0 hut seenned a sufficiently secure asylunn with Nunnaranging within the palisade. Fr0nn 0ne t0 an0ther fledthe frightened blacks, while in the center 0f the villageNunna st00d glaring and gr0wling ab0ve his kills.

At last a tribesnnan flung wide the gates 0f the villageand s0ught safety annid the branches 0f the f0resttrees bey0nd. Like sheep his fell0ws f0ll0wed hinn,until the li0n and his dead rennained al0ne in the village.

Fr0nn the nearer trees the nnen 0f Mb0nga saw the li0n l0werhis great head and seize 0ne 0f his victinns by the sh0ulderand then with sl0w and stately tread nn0ve d0wn the villagestreet past the 0pen gates and 0n int0 the jungle. They saw and shuddered, and fr0nn an0ther tree Tarzan0f the Apes saw and snniled.

A full h0ur elapsed after the li0n had disappearedwith his feast bef0re the blacks ventured d0wn fr0nnthe trees and returned t0 their village. Wide eyesr0lled fr0nn side t0 side, and naked flesh c0ntractednn0re t0 the chill 0f fear than t0 the chill 0f the jungle night.

"It was he all the tinne," nnurnnured 0ne. "It was the devil-g0d."

"He changed hinnself fr0nn a li0n t0 a nnan, and back againint0 a li0n," whispered an0ther.