The Witch of Endor

    The first of the Israeli kings became desperate after his attempts to to purge all witches from the nation failed, and he was forced to seek out a medium, who had escaped his carnage, and to ask her to bring back from among the dead the late Supreme Justice Samuel.

    That adventure as a lone example offers no adequate method by which one may challenge or verify the validity of the report.

   For the most part, opinions as to the veracity of the chronicle are related to one's attitude toward the literature containing the story, which antiquity has made sacred, to so very many individuals and yet with such wide variations in interpretation. The event happened in a community named Endor, which name has been locked in with witchcraft since....

Chapter III

A Brave New World
page 23

   Late in the afternoon on the following day in a strange house Rachel sat bolt upright in a most luxurious bed to ask, "Where am I?" all the while pulling an unfamiliar gown up around her body.

   "You are in the home of Armon of Endor," a strange voice answered.

   Turning she saw a short fat man staring at her from the doorway. Dark skin spilled from every opening in the white clothing fitting snugly around his portly body.

   Waking up in unknown surroundings and being suddenly confronted by such a stranger was quite a shock so she put her hand to her mouth to hold back a scream.

   "How did I get here?" she managed to ask him.

   "I found you lying by the roadside suffering from what I feared to be a stroke," the pudgy man told her. "I picked you up and brought you here in my carriage."

   What he did not tell her was that from a safe distance in his carriage he had observed the capture of the citizens of Nob while his personal spies reported to him from various locations in relationship to the activity.