"We're not sure," Dr. Aiken told him. "It was built many, many years ago. By a race now vanished."
The small captain looked excited.
"Many years? A—a ber-oo race, perhaps?"
Now it was the doctor whose eyes widened.
"Blue! Did you say a blue race?"
"But, yes!" answered the Jap. Everyone knew that long ago there dwelt on earth the blue-skinned gods. "The legends of my peoples speak of them," he said. "The Kojiki tells how they brought to mankind wisdom, and—" he continued serenely—"when they departed, it was ordained that my people should henceforth rule the world."
"Stop!" shouted Ramey, leaping from behind the idol.