title: Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma
author:  Anthony Johnson 
description: <B>Anthony Johnson</B> is an experienced archaeologist based in Oxford, with more than 300 archaeological surveys and site reports to his name.
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  # **Chapter 27**
  
  When Pasgen was assured that the rout of half-crazed fauns and nymphs had
  separated Elizabeth and Denoriel and the mortal slaves he had hired had caught
  her and started toward the reawakened Orbis Gate, he began the transits that
  would take him home. After all, what could possibly go wrong at this stage?
  Confidently, on arriving, he passed through the interior Gates into the
  escape-proof holding chamber he maintained.
  
  It was empty.
  
  For one long moment he just stared at the place where Elizabeth _should_ have
  been, as if by staring, he would make her appear out of nothing.
  
  Then he got hold of himself. Quickly Pasgen estimated the time it had taken
  him to arrive at home and compared it to the time his amulet should have
  opened the Orbis Gate and flicked Elizabeth and the two men into his holding
  chamber. Then he shook his head and laughed at himself. The imp had told him
  when th