H. Rider Haggard 
Ayesha, the Return of She 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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!