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THE WIZARD
by H. RIDER HAGGARD

DEDICATION
To the Memory of the Child
Nada Burnham,
who "bound all to her" and, while her father cut his way through the
hordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished of the hardships of war at
Buluwayo on 19th May, 1896, I dedicate these tales--and more
particularly the last, that of a Faith which triumphed over savagery and
death.
H. Rider Haggard.
Ditchingham.

AUTHOR'S NOTE
Of the three stories that comprise this volume[*], one, "The Wizard," a
tale of victorious faith, first appeared some years ago as a Christmas
Annual. Another, "Elissa," is an attempt, difficult enough owing to the
scantiness of the material left to us by time, to recreate the life of the
ancient Phœnician Zimbabwe, whose ruins still stand in Rhodesia, and,
with the addition of the necessary love story, to suggest circumstances
such as might have brought about or accompanied its fall at the hands
of the surrounding savage tribes. The third, "Black Heart and White
Heart," is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of
Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo.
[*] This text was prepared from a volume published in 1900 titled

"Black Heart and White Heart, and Other Stories."--JB.

THE WIZARD
CHAPTER I
THE DEPUTATION
Has the age of miracle quite gone by, or is it still possible to the Voice
of Faith calling aloud upon the earth to wring from the dumb heavens
an audible answer to its prayer? Does the promise uttered by the Master
of mankind upon the eve of the end--"Whoso that believeth in Me, the
works that I do he shall do also . . . and whatsoever ye shall ask in My
name, that will I do"--still hold good to such as do ask and do believe?
Let those who care to study the history of the Rev. Thomas Owen, and
of that strange man who carried on and completed his work, answer this
question according to their judgment.
*****
The time was a Sunday afternoon in summer, and the place a church in
the Midland counties. It was