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Martin Louis Alan Gompertz. Mirror of Dreams
Mirror of Dreams
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I DHYANAND
CHAPTER II JOHN OXLEY
CHAPTER III THE MIRROR
CHAPTER IV PROFESSOR WALDENSTEIN
CHAPTER V THE MOSAIC GAME
CHAPTER VI NUBRA
CHAPTER VII THE ROAD OF VISION
CHAPTER VIII THE HIDDEN GLACIER
CHAPTER IX THE CITY OF VISION
CHAPTER X INITIATION
CHAPTER XI DHYAN
CHAPTER XII AUNT JANE
CHAPTER XIII SWAMI ANANDA
CHAPTER XIV RAMA
CHAPTER XV THE MASTER’S STORY
CHAPTER XVI TARZI ARRIVES
CHAPTER XVII KRISHNA RAO
CHAPTER XVIII MAKHMUD
CHAPTER XIX TARZI SCORES
CHAPTER XX THE END OF TARZI
CHAPTER XXI THE END
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Martin Louis Alan Gompertz
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The Set Goculdass wondered what had happened to his recently engaged servant, but as the early morning had been rather a rush to get over the pass before the snow got too heavy, he thought he would find him on the further side, and, when he did not, presumed the man had come to grief in the snow. But one could not hold up a caravan for a thing like that on the Central Asian road; the snow was now heavy and likely to continue.
Two days later Dhyanand, after crossing the Shyok fords, sat in his shelter looking through his things, and became aware that he had mislaid a certain mirror on which he set some store for its mysterious powers, in which he firmly believed. He wondered, at first, if he had lost it in the snow. Then he remembered the passage of the fords where, being absorbed in thought, he had gone too far down-stream and had been lucky to escape with his life, thanks to a quickly flung rope by one of Tarzi’s men. He usually carried that mirror on him, and, presumably, it must have fallen out in the water. He looked at the Shyok torrent and realised that the mirror had gone for good, and was extremely annoyed about it. But he was philosopher enough to see that there was nothing to be done in the matter.
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