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The Missionary is a novel by George Chetwynd Griffith. Griffith was a productive British sci-fi author and prominent traveler who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Excerpt: "As the door closed behind his father, Vane went to the table on which the open spirit-stand stood. His father had forgotten to replace the stopper in the whiskey decanter, and the aroma of the ripe old spirit rose to his nostrils. Instantly a subtle fire seemed to spread through his veins and mount up to his brain. The mad craving that he had felt outside the Criterion came back upon him with tenfold force. He raised the decanter to his nostrils and inhaled a long breath of the subtle, vaporous poison. H...