# Salute to Adventurers

Author: Buchan, John, 1875-1940

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10046

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Salute+to+Adventurers+Buchan&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate. It came to little, being no more than that I should miss love and fortune in the sunlight and find them in the rain. The woman was a haggard, black-faced gipsy, and when my mother asked for more she turned on her heel and spoke gibberish; for which she was presently driven out of the place by Tarn Roberton, the baillie, and the village dogs. But the thing stuck in my memory, and together with the fact that I was a Thursday's bairn, and so, according to the old rhyme, "had far to go," convinced me long ere I had come to man's estate that wanderings and surprises...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salute-to-adventurers-10046/chapters/2/index.md)