Angels and Women (1924)

FINDINGTHE MANUSCRIPTTNORTH - -. SYRIAN MTS., May 23, 19HIS month must be marked in white;it is the date of a wonderful discovery.Toiling along the steeps of the Anti-Libanus, on our way to Jahrada, we haltedfor the midday repast and, while the guideswere preparing it, reclined in the shadeof the scanty foliage. As we leisurelysurveyed the sterile landscape, our attentionwas attracted to an object quite unexpectedin this desert place, a flower ofsurprising beauty, which hung from a broadshelf of rock opposite.Edmund sprang forward to gather thewonderful blossom, and upon reaching theperilous steep to sustain himself laid hold ofthe root of a decayed tree which had oncegrown there. His weight had scarce beenthus suspended when the stump gave wayand slid down, carrying with it the earth in7