“There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.”
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John Buchan
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Salute to Adventurers
Source: Salute to Adventurers (1915), Ch. 24 "I Suffer the Heathen's Rage"
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