forts, horsemen were closing in on it. I
yelled to my comrades that we were nearest, that we would be first in
the city, and they nodded happily and shouted their strange war-cries.
As we topped the last ridge I saw below me the van of our charge--a
dark mass on the snow--while the broken enemy on both sides were
flinging away their arms and scattering in the fields.

In the very front, now nearing the city ramparts, was one man. He was
like the point of the steel spear soon to be driven home. In the clear
morning air I could see that he did not wear the uniform of the
invaders. He was turbaned and rode like one possessed, and against the
snow I caught the dark sheen of emerald. As he rode it seemed that the
fleeing Turks were stricken still, and sank by the roadside with eyes
strained after his unheeding figure ...

Then I knew that the prophecy had been true, and that their prophet had
not failed them. The long-looked for revelation had come. Greenmantle
had appeared at last to an awaiting people.

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