Capitolo 15
undisputed power. "It is well", he followed. "My people they love me. Them
knows my strength, how I can wither them on. Gives me to Them their blood to
freely drinks. Then I will be merciful to them. I will make my sun shine and
my pluvius drop from sky. And instead of taking _all_, I will choose one
victim." He made a break, and it meaningfully threw a look along their line.
"Chooses, You-Kila-Kila", the men answered, without the hesitation of a moment.
"We am all of Your meat. Chooses you he/she will take what of us."
You-Kila-Kila it walked with a comfortable walk for the lines and it observed
the men critically. They was all drawn above in file, one behind the other,
according to tribe and families; and the god walked along every line,
examining them with a curious eye and party, as it examines a grower
the adaptation of sheep for the market. Now and then, he felt a leg or an arm with his
finger and it turns him with the thumb, and a second hesitated. It was an important matter,
this that chooses a victim. As he passed, it is probable that a near observer would have noticed
what every men visibly trembled while the eye of the god was on him, and
looked later sideways at him with a terrified sideways the fixed look as him it passed on
to his/her neighbor. But any savage gave some open signal or token of his
terror or his/her reluctance. On the contrary one, as You-Kila-Kila it passed long
the line with lazy deliberateness, cruel, the men kept on singing psalms to tall voice
without a tremor in their voices, "We am all of Your meat. Chooses what
one that you will pick of us up."
On a sudden, You-Kila-Kila it brusquely turned round, and, casting an express
you throw a look toward a line that him you/he/she was already passed first many minutes, him
exclaimed, with an air of unexpected inspiration, "You-Kila-Kila it has,
chosen. He takes Maloa."
The man on which the shoulder the god was placed the heavy hand as him he/she spoke is standing
ahead from the crowd without the hesitation of a moment. If anger or fear were