“Ganpat”
Staff College
Quetta, Baluchistan
1st January, 1923
CONTENTS
| Foreword | [ ix] | |
| I. | I meet Wrexham and Forsyth | [ 3] |
| II. | Old John Wrexham’s Diary | [ 13] |
| III. | Wrexham’s Story | [ 22] |
| IV. | The Great Decision | [ 33] |
| V. | The Jumping-off Line | [ 40] |
| VI. | The Desert | [ 50] |
| VII. | The Distant Hills | [ 64] |
| VIII. | The Gate | [ 76] |
| IX. | A Lady Joins us | [ 90] |
| X. | Below the Cliffs | [ 110] |
| XI. | The Caves | [ 124] |
| XII. | Aryenis’s People | [ 137] |
| XIII. | We join with Kyrlos | [ 147] |
| XIV. | We visit the Border | [ 157] |
| XV. | We speak with an Envoy and ride to Aornos | [ 170] |
| XVI. | Aryenis and I visit Paulos | [ 190] |
| XVII. | Aryenis’s Home-coming | [ 205] |
| XVIII. | A Shaman Raid | [ 220] |
| XIX. | Paulos does some Thought-Reading | [ 234] |
| XX. | I make a Bet with Aryenis | [ 251] |
| XXI. | I am given a Following | [ 262] |
| XXII. | The Astara Defile | [ 273] |
| XXIII. | I pretend to understand Aryenis | [ 286] |
| XXIV. | I win my Bet | [ 300] |
| XXV. | Shamantown | [ 310] |
| XXVI. | The Gate again | [ 322] |
| XXVII. | Aryenis and I find some Things that Matter | [ 331] |
HARILEK
HARILEK
CHAPTER I
I MEET WREXHAM AND FORSYTH
Most of the big things in life hinge on very small beginnings. I wonder if the people who pose as pure materialists ever reflect on that fact when they hold forth on their complete and absolute certainty that there is no guiding hand in men’s affairs or in the conception, creation, and control of that most wonderfully intricate piece of machinery, the universe.
Missing a train, accepting an invitation, having a dance cut, all may prove the turning-point in a life if you take the trouble to trace things back to their beginnings.