Generally, it leads you back to where you started from; and when it doesn't, you wish it did, so that at all events you might know where you were.

I foresaw evil from the very first, and before we had accomplished a couple of miles we came up with it.

The road divided into three.

A worm-eaten sign-post indicated that the path to the left led to a place that we had never heard of--that was on no map.

Its other arm, pointing out the direction of the middle road, had disappeared.