13. THE LAST STAGE
14. THE END OF THE ROAD
EPILOGUE




Linum fumigans non exstinguet; in veritate educet judicium. ISA. XLII.3.




THE PATH OF THE KING

by John Buchan




PROLOGUE

The three of us in that winter camp in the Selkirks were talking the slow
aimless talk of wearied men.

The Soldier, who had seen many campaigns, was riding his hobby of the Civil
War and descanting on Lee's tactics in the last Wilderness struggle. I said
something about the stark romance of it--of Jeb Stuart flitting like a
wraith through the forests; of Sheridan's attack at Chattanooga, when the
charging troops on the ridge were silhouetted against a harvest moon; of
Leonidas Polk, last of the warrior Bishops, baptizing his fellow generals