Excerpt from Salome and the Head: A Modern Melodrama Have courage, and read on. There is no fighting in the story, and it all happened in England. Most of it is very romantic, and some of it is rather horrible. If Edmund Templar, who is, I scorn to deny it, my hero, goes to South Africa, he goes alone. We will not, I pledge you my honour, go with him. At present, however, he is not going to South Africa, but to Reka Dom. Which lies on the border of the New Forest. Here again I beg to reassure you. There is nothing about Russia in this story: not a bomb, not a knout, not so much as a political tract. No samovar broods hissing over my pages, no secret societies whisper and explode. You are safe from vodka, from sledges, wolves and princesses who are spies. The house was called. Reka Dom just because the Aunt in her young days had read Mrs Ewing, and because the house had grounds which, at some length. Ran down to the river that sprawls among kingcups in the Ringwood water meadows, and runs under the bridge of many arches in that pleasant town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.