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John Buchan
A Prince of the Captivity
(Unabridged)
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2018 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-4757-8
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 6
Chapter 10
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 18
Chapter 21
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Dedication
TO EDWARD STEPHEN HARKNESS
“As when a Prince
Of dispers’d Israel, chosen in the shade,
Rules by no canon save his inward light.
And knows no pageant save the pipes and shawms
Of his proud spirit.”
Thus said Jesus, upon whom be peace.
The World is a bridge; pass over it, but build no house upon it.
—The Emperor Akbar’s inscription at Fatehpur-Sikri.
Book 1
Part 1
Chapter 1
On a warm June evening three men were sitting in the smoking-room of a London club. One was an old man, with a face which had once been weather-beaten and was now intricately seamed with veins and wrinkles. His bearing, his shoulders trimly squared even at seventy, spoke of the old style of British regimental officer. The second was in his early thirties, a heavy young man, with nothing of the Guardsman about him except his tie. The third might have