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AYESHA: the Return of She AYESHA: The Return of She H. RIDER HAGGARD AYESHA: The Return of She Table of Contents AYESHA: The Return of She..................................................................................................................................1 H. RIDER HAGGARD..................................................................................................................................1 Dedication......................................................................................................................................................3 Author's Note.................................................................................................................................................3 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................3 AYESHA: The Further History of She−Who−Must−Be−Obeyed.............................................................................7 CHAPTER I. THE DOUBLE SIGN..............................................................................................................7 CHAPTER II. THE LAMASERY...............................................................................................................12 CHAPTER III. THE BEACON LIGHT......................................................................................................21 CHAPTER IV. THE AVALANCHE...........................................................................................................26 CHAPTER V. THE GLACIER...................................................................................................................32 CHAPTER VI. IN THE GATE....................................................................................................................37 CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST ORDEAL......................................................................................................44 CHAPTER VIII. THE DEATH−HOUNDS................................................................................................51 CHAPTER IX. THE COURT OF KALOON..............................................................................................58 CHAPTER X. IN THE SHAMAN'S CHAMBER.......................................................................................64 CHAPTER XI. THE HUNT AND THE KILL............................................................................................70 CHAPTER XII. THE MESSENGER..........................................................................................................78 CHAPTER XIII. BENEATH THE SHADOWING WINGS......................................................................90 CHAPTER XIV. THE COURT OF DEATH..............................................................................................99 CHAPTER XV. THE SECOND ORDEAL...............................................................................................107 CHAPTER XVI. THE CHANGE..............................................................................................................117 CHAPTER XVII. THE BETROTHAL.....................................................................................................124 CHAPTER XVIII. THE THIRD ORDEAL..............................................................................................128 CHAPTER XIX. LEO AND THE LEOPARD..........................................................................................135 CHAPTER XX. AYESHA'S ALCHEMY.................................................................................................143 CHAPTER XXI. THE PROPHECY OF ATENE.....................................................................................153 CHAPTER XXII. THE LOOSING OF THE POWERS............................................................................160 CHAPTER XXIII. THE YIELDING OF AYESHA.................................................................................170 CHAPTER XXIV. THE PASSING OF AYESHA....................................................................................176 i AYESHA: The Return of She H. RIDER HAGGARD This page copyright © 2002 Blackmask Online. http://www.blackmask.com • Dedication • Author's Note • Introduction • AYESHA: The Further History of She−Who−Must−Be−Obeyed • CHAPTER I. THE DOUBLE SIGN • CHAPTER II. THE LAMASERY • CHAPTER III. THE BEACON LIGHT • CHAPTER IV. THE AVALANCHE • CHAPTER V. THE GLACIER • CHAPTER VI. IN THE GATE • CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST ORDEAL • CHAPTER VIII. THE DEATH−HOUNDS • CHAPTER IX. THE COURT OF KALOON • CHAPTER X. IN THE SHAMAN'S CHAMBER • CHAPTER XI. THE HUNT AND THE KILL • CHAPTER XII. THE MESSENGER • CHAPTER XIII. BENEATH THE SHADOWING WINGS • CHAPTER XIV. THE COURT OF DEATH • CHAPTER XV. THE SECOND ORDEAL • CHAPTER XVI. THE CHANGE • CHAPTER XVII. THE BETROTHAL • CHAPTER XVIII. THE THIRD ORDEAL • CHAPTER XIX. LEO AND THE LEOPARD • CHAPTER XX. AYESHA'S ALCHEMY • CHAPTER XXI. THE PROPHECY OF ATENE • CHAPTER XXII. THE LOOSING OF THE POWERS • CHAPTER XXIII. THE YIELDING OF AYESHA • CHAPTER XXIV. THE PASSING OF AYESHA AYESHA: The Return of She 1 AYESHA: The Return of She Here ends this history so far as it concerns science and the outside world. What its end will be as regards Leo and myself is more than I can guess. But we feel that it is not reached. Often I sit alone at night, staring with the eyes of my mind into the blackness of unborn time, and wondering in what shape and form the great drama will be finally developed, and where the scene of its next act will be laid. And when, ultimately, that final development occurs, as I have no doubt it must and will occur, in obedience to a fate that never swerves and a purpose which cannot be altered, what will be the part played therein by that beautiful Egyptian Amenar−tas, the Princess of the royal house of the Pharaohs, for the love of whom the priest Kallikrates broke his vows to Isis, and, pursued by the vengeance of the outraged goddess, fled down the coast of Lybia to meet his doom at Kor?"She, Silver Library Edition, p. 277. AYESHA: The Return of She 2 AYESHA: The Return of She Dedication MY DEAR LANG, The appointed yearsalas! how many of themare gone by, leaving Ayesha lovely and loving and ourselves alive. As it was promised in the Caves of Kor She has returned again. To you therefore who accepted the first, I offer this further history of one of the various incarnations of that Immortal, My hope is that after you have read her record, notwithstanding her subtleties and sins and the shortcomings of her chronicler (no easy office!) you may continue to wear your chain of " loyalty to our lady Ayesha." Such, I confess, is still the fate of your old friend H. RIDER HAGGARD. DITCHINGHAM, 1905. Author's Note Nor with a view of conciliating those readers who on principle object to sequels, but as a matter of fact, the Author wishes to say that he does not so regard this book. Rather does he venture to ask that it should be considered as the conclusion of an imaginative tragedy (if he may so call it) whereof one half has been already published. This conclusion it was always his desire to write should he be destined to live through those many years which, in obedience to his original design, must be allowed to lapse between the events of the first and second parts of the romance. In response to many enquiries he may add that the name Ayesha, which since the days of the prophet Mahomet, who had a wife so called, and perhaps before them, has been common in the East, should be pronounced Assha. Introduction VERILY and indeed it is the unexpected that happens! Probably if there was one person upon the earth from whom the Editor of this, and of a certain previous history, did not expect to hear again, that person was Ludwig Horace Holly. This, too, for a good reason; he believed him to have taken his departure from the earth. When Mr. Holly last wrote, many, many years ago, it was to transmit the manuscript of She, and to announce that he and his ward, Leo Vincey, the beloved of the divine Ayesha, were about to travel to Central Asia in the hope, I suppose, that there she would fulfil her promise and appear to them again. Often I have wondered, idly enough, what happened to them there; whether they were dead, or perhaps droning their lives away as monks in some Thibetan Lamasery, or studying magic and practising asceticism under the tuition of the Eastern Masters trusting that thus they would build a bridge by which they might pass to the side of their adored Immortal. Now at length, when I had not thought of them for months, without a single warning sign, out of the blue as it were, comes the answer to these wonderings! Dedication 3 AYESHA: The Return of She To thinkonly to thinkthat I, the Editor aforesaid, from its appearance suspecting something quite familiar and without interest, pushed aside that dingy, unregistered, brown−paper parcel directed in an unknown hand, and for two whole days let it lie forgotten. Indeed there it might be lying now, had not another person been moved to curiosity, and opening it, found within a bundle of manuscript badly burned upon the back, and with this two letters addressed to myself. Although so great a time had passed since I saw it, and it was shaky now because of the author's age or sickness, I knew the writing at oncenobody ever made an " H " with that peculiar twirl under it except Mr. Holly. I tore open the sealed envelope, and sure enough the first thing my eye fell upon was the signature, L. H. Holly. It is long since
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