"Here is the white medicine-man's magic wine! Come, drink!" screamed the crazed witch doctor, as tongues of flame ran up the church walls. On the altar itself sat a mysterious object, with a white cloth thrown over it. Then with a yell the brute tore away the napkin -- revealing a severed head! Godfrey rushed forward with his revolver blazing -- then reeled from a blow to his head . . . and remembered no more. It might have been a thousand years, or it might have been a minute: for he had passed into a state that takes no reck of time . . . and to a place where he would meet the one he most dearly needed!

Author Biography

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.