title: Azuhaelia:  Oracles of the Alabaster Ruins (Volume 1)
author: C. K. Roman
description: Retired R.N. from ICU and then Hospice has been working on this trilogy since stories she had been telling her children, then her grand-children, blossomed ten years ago into Azuhaelia. She has also developed a series of children's books soon to be published. This is her first novel.
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  # The Ancient Allan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### H. Rider Haggard
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. AN OLD FRIEND
  
  
  CHAPTER II. RAGNALL CASTLE
  
  
  CHAPTER III. ALLAN GIVES HIS WORD
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. THROUGH THE GATES
  
  
  CHAPTER V. THE WAGER
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. THE DOOM OF THE BOAT
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. BES STEALS THE SIGNET
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE LADY AMADA
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. THE MESSENGERS
  
  
  CHAPTER X. SHABAKA PLIGHTS HIS TROTH
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE HOLY TANOFIR
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. THE SLAYING OF IDERNES
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. AMADA RETURNS TO ISIS
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. SHABAKA FIGHTS THE CROCODILE
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. THE SUMMONS
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. TANOFIR FINDS HIS BROKEN CUP
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. THE BATTLE—AND AFTER
  
  
  AND AFTER
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  Etext prepared by Dagny, dagnypg@yahoo.com
  
  
  and John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. AN OLD FRIEND
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two
  
  
  exceptions perhaps) of all the experi