What was the fate of the old Dom da Silvestra three hundred years ago?
What was the fate of his descendant twenty years ago?
What has been your brother's fate?
I tell you frankly, gentlemen, that as their fates were so I believe ours will be." I paused to watch the effect of my words.

Captain Good looked a little uncomfortable, but Sir Henry's face did not change.

"We must take our chance," he said.
"You may perhaps wonder," I went on, "why, if I think this, I, who am, as I told you, a timid man, should undertake such a journey.

It is for two reasons.

First I am a fatalist, and believe that my time is appointed to come quite without reference to my own movements and will, and that if I am to go to Suliman's Mountains to be killed, I shall go there and shall be killed.