IV. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
V. THE DESERT ROAD
VI. THE ENCOUNTER
VII. THE PLACE OF REPENTANCE
VIII. THE RELEASE OF THE PRISONER
IX. HOLY GROUND

EPILOGUE

The Bars of Iron

PROLOGUE

"Fight? I'll fight you with pleasure, but I shall probably kill you if I do. Do you want to be killed?" Brief and contemptuous the question fell. The speaker was a mere lad. He could not have been more than nineteen. But he held himself with the superb British assurance that has its root in the British public school and which, once planted, in certain soils is wholly ineradicable.