At any rate, I had fulfilled my trust, and if I died in the hills Virginia would yet bless her deliverer.
And yet my strongest feeling was a wild regret.

These folk were making for the untravelled lands of the sunset.

You would have said I had got my bellyful of adventure, and should now have sought only a quiet life.
But in that moment of bodily weakness and mental confusion I was shaken with a longing to follow them, to find what lay beyond the farthest cloud-topped mountain, to cross the wide rivers, and haply to come to the infinite and mystic Ocean of the West.
"Would to God I were with them!" I sighed.
"Will you come, brother ?" Shalah whispered, a strange light in his eyes.

"If we twain joined the venture, I think we should not be the last in it.

Shalah would make you a king.