Queen Sheba's Ring. H. Rider Haggard

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       H. Rider Haggard

      Queen Sheba's Ring

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664626264

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       THE COMING OF THE RING

       CHAPTER II

       THE ADVICE OF SERGEANT QUICK

       CHAPTER III

       THE PROFESSOR GOES OUT SHOOTING

       CHAPTER IV

       THE DEATH WIND

       CHAPTER V

       PHARAOH MAKES TROUBLE

       CHAPTER VI

       HOW WE ESCAPED FROM HARMAC

       CHAPTER VII

       BARUNG

       CHAPTER VIII

       THE SHADOW OF FATE

       CHAPTER IX

       THE SWEARING OF THE OATH

       CHAPTER X

       QUICK LIGHTS A MATCH

       CHAPTER XI

       THE RESCUE FAILS

       CHAPTER XII

       THE DEN OF LIONS

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE ADVENTURES OF HIGGS

       CHAPTER XIV

       HOW PHARAOH MET SHADRACH

       CHAPTER XV

       SERGEANT QUICK HAS A PRESENTIMENT

       CHAPTER XVI

       HARMAC COMES TO MUR

       CHAPTER XVII

       I FIND MY SON

       CHAPTER XVIII

       THE BURNING OF THE PALACE

       CHAPTER XIX

       STARVATION

       CHAPTER XX

       THE TRIAL AND AFTER

CHAPTER I

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THE COMING OF THE RING

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      Every one has read the monograph, I believe that is the right word, of my dear friend, Professor Higgs—Ptolemy Higgs to give him his full name—descriptive of the tableland of Mur in North Central Africa, of the ancient underground city in the mountains which surrounded it, and of the strange tribe of Abyssinian Jews, or rather their mixed descendants, by whom it is, or was, inhabited. I say every one advisedly, for although the public which studies such works is usually select, that which will take an interest in them, if the character of a learned and pugnacious personage is concerned, is very wide indeed. Not to mince matters, I may as well explain what I mean at once.

      Professor Higgs’s rivals and enemies, of whom either the brilliancy of his achievements or his somewhat abrupt and pointed methods of controversy seem to have made him a great many, have risen up, or rather seated themselves, and written him down—well, an individual who strains the truth. Indeed, only this morning one of these inquired, in a letter to the press, alluding to some adventurous traveller who, I am told, lectured to the British Association several years ago, whether Professor Higgs did not, in fact, ride across the desert to Mur, not upon a camel, as he alleged, but upon a land tortoise of extraordinary size.

      The innuendo contained in this epistle has made the Professor, who, as I have already hinted, is not by nature of a meek disposition, extremely angry. Indeed, notwithstanding all that I could do, he left his London house under an hour ago with a whip of hippopotamus hide such as the Egyptians call a koorbash, purposing to avenge himself upon the person of his defamer. In order to prevent a public scandal, however, I have taken the liberty of telephoning