“Horace Holly and his friend Leo Vintsey, lover of the divine Aesha, went to Central Asia, hoping to see her there again. Since then there has been no news of them. But almost twenty years later, as Rider Haggard says, among the manuscripts sent to the editor, he came across a nondescript gray package, from which fell the manuscript of the novel “Aesha” and two letters addressed to the editor. On one of the letters he immediately recognized Mr. Holly's distinctive handwriting. Horace Holly wrote that he had returned to the civilized world after an absence of twenty years...”