John Buchan
Prester John
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664156389
Table of Contents
THE MAN ON THE KIRKCAPLE SHORE
I FALL IN AGAIN WITH THE REVEREND JOHN LAPUTA
CAPTAIN ARCOLL SENDS A MESSAGE
I CARRY THE COLLAR OF PRESTER JOHN
HOW A MAN MAY SOMETIMES PUT HIS TRUST IN A HORSE
MY LAST SIGHT OF THE REVEREND JOHN LAPUTA
I CLIMB THE CRAGS A SECOND TIME
A GREAT PERIL AND A GREAT SALVATION
MY UNCLE'S GIFT IS MANY TIMES MULTIPLIED
CHAPTER I
THE MAN ON THE KIRKCAPLE SHORE
I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours. But I mind yet the cold grue of terror I got from it, a terror which was surely more than the due of a few truant lads breaking the Sabbath with their play.
The town of Kirkcaple, of which and its adjacent parish of Portincross my father was the minister, lies on a hillside above the little bay of Caple, and looks squarely out on the North Sea. Round the horns of land which enclose the bay the coast shows on either side a battlement of stark red cliffs through which a burn or two makes