Henry Rider Haggard 
Mahatma and the Hare [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info present you this new edition. The author supposes that the first of the above extracts must have impressed him. At any rate, on the night after the reading of it, just as he went to sleep, or on the following morning just as he awoke, he cannot tell which, there came to him the title and the outlines of this fantasy, including the command with which it ends. With a particular clearness did he seem to see the picture of the Great White Road, "straight as the way of the Spirit, and broad as the breast of Death, " and of the little Hare travelling towards the awful Gates.