A Son of the Ages: The Reincarnations and Adventures of Scar, the Link / A Story of Man From the Beginning

“His eyes were flaming and his teeth shone white.... We were alone to fight it out.”
A SON OF THE AGES
THE REINCARNATIONS AND ADVENTURES OF SCAR, THE LINK
A story of Man from the Beginning
BY STANLEY WATERLOO AUTHOR OF “THE STORY OF AB”
Illustrated by Craig Johns
Garden City New York DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1914
Copyright, 1914, by Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
Copyright, 1914, by the Frank A. Munsey Co.
A waste of waters heaved sullenly beneath a dismal canopy. Thin, slimy masses floated here and there about the shallows of a little cove or clung to its sodden beach. The cove led into a bay, which opened, in its turn, upon a vast and soundless sea. But a single reach of land, gray, flat, and lifeless and encircling partially the cove, was all of earth there was in sight.
Close above and all about the huge and silent mystery and extending outward far into space, was a steaming world of vapour, condensed into enormous clouds beyond, an enshrouding curtain over all beneath. And ever this was smitten fiercely by the distant sun, whose rays could not yet fairly pierce the tremendous depths, yet shone through wanly here and there upon the sombre scheme, sombre in its awful lifelessness and silence, but with a promise, indefinable and yet assured, of life and light to come in the tremendous future.