1st UK edition

'Ride fast, ride fast for safety, strangers'

'We go to accomplish our fate'

'Are you the Khania's other friend?'

'Ayesha, dost thou mean that thou art such a woman?'

It rose, it stood up, a human figure

In a second, the attempt had been made and failed

I seemed to see two glorious shapes sweeping upward on its bosom

I saw Leo rolling over and over at grips with a great snow-leopard

'Drive them out on to the mountain'

She grew white and silent as the corpse upon the bier behind her

It was the CRUX ANSATA, the symbol of Life itself

Hurled it feet foremost into the fiery lake below

From the east a single ray of upward-springing light

Holding him thus, she began to spak in clear and silvery tones

'What seeks my vassal, the Khania of Kaloon?'

Alone in the shadow of the pylon

Ayesha tore off her veil and held it on high

He was hacking at the cord with it fiercely

'What have you to say, Horace?' asked Leo

With a murmered cry of 'Husband!' Ayesha cast her arms about her lover's neck

She bent over him and touched him with her lips upon the brow

In that darkened room she shimmered from head to foot like the water of a phosphorescent sea

'By this poor earthly symbol, I create tee King of Earth'

She took a map, and, placing her finger upon Pekin, said: 'There is the place that shall be our home'

As he passed, he turned his face... it was that of a madman

At one point she paused and I looked downwards

Slaves took the leading ponies by the bridle

'See there!' he said, pointing to something dim and enormous

'Who is it? Who is it?' he exclaimed, blinking at me through a pair of horn spectacles

He threw one arm round her slender form, while with the other he supported me

We dragged the animals down the snow slopes to the cave

'See, yonder is the mouth of the gorge where lived the cat-worshipping sorcerer'