The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-26
GODDESS
By Herberf Jensen

it and practised singing it. 1 got so I could throw it quite distance. It occurred to me that if could sling 1t up over the lip of the cliff it might catch on something and I could haul myself up by it.
 "i tried IL. After while 1t fast ened on something-l thought stout iy-and after testing il by climbing zen feet or so l decided to risk the enlire climb. Well .. 1t let me down.
 he pointed to his maimed arm. "l yrohe tnat, aLd disloca.ed my hlp. crawled pack nefe. It was preuy bad for whiie. had some ,oou yuL couldn't hunt guess TOT weeAs. he gfinned a5ain. 6ut my appeAte wasn't what you'd call hearty, and 1 got by all right"
 What did you do for hre?" asked Janice.
 "1nat was the least of my worries. found wood that burns forever, thlnk. me natives used 1t back ln the city, and 1 had few matches.
 They sat and talked late into the night. The mosquitoes did not .pu,ner them. Langton claimed that il was because there was good draln- age mo swiftly flowing stream, and therefore there could be no breeding places.
 Langtons story was that he had been blown out of Alis course by the hurricane and sighted no place to land uutll to his amazement he saw the great stone-slabbed clearing near the pyramid.
 Not only could he land there put it appeared uesigneu for d later take of. lie had, then, no hesitation in landing.
 "E'D been spoiled, l guess" he went
 \ on with hint of apology in his smile. When the natives surround ed me thought that they composed sort of jungle reception commit tee. They seemed to know who l was, too.
 "i used to read stories about these people down here who made gods Of blond men you know lots of those old Spaniards were blond, which was one of the reasons they got by so well in the old days.
 "Even when they came they found the natives had blondgods-from- the east legends. The Spaniards took advantage of those legends.
 Maybe l thought l might do the same for a little while. I'm kid enough. guess, to try feeling how it is to be a king. Yep, he continued, T tried. but didn't get away with it. met the ahkin here in day or two anu 1 began to wish that hurri- cane had blown me somewhere else
 The high-priest isn't bad sort, really. think he's remarkable fel- low. He doesn't speak English only Spanish-yes. that's right. just Spanish and his own language, but he can read your mind like book.
 Don't tell me you don't believe in telepathy, Frank-this boy can give you some startling exhibition. Either that or he's twin brother to Herman the Great. Anyway we got along fine when I'd ask him ques- tions that he could answer with a yes or a no in Spanish-I know that much of the language. anyway.
 We got along fine, say. until l was taken to the top of the pyramid to witness one of their little sunrise performances. They'd dressed me up quite trickily.
 "Thcy killed a poor devil on the sacrifice stone and girl. went little haywire and in the fight came out SeCOuu UeSL.
 "They put me in stone room. and gave me to understand that my scrap on the pyramid top had elect ed me to take a more or less per sonal part in the next performance
 "They treated me all right though They gave me soma stuff from the ship, pop. chewing gum. and choco late bars" He grinned a little shamefacedly. You know me Frank. Frank used to tell me. Miss Kent, that all needed on my crate was peanut whistle to go into busi ness.
 eI wrote a note on a cablegram envelope. and scratched my story on the wall, high up. The envelope l put in pop bottle and sealed fl with chewing gum and piece oi rag from my shirt. When they took me to the pyramid top carried the bottle with me.
 ITO cut long story short, tried to take the ahkin with me-not be cause l had anything personally against him, but he is a dangerous lunatic and with him out of the way the vital statistics of this ancien city would take quite drop for th' good"