The Risaldar looked out through the window toward the red glow on the
sky-line.
"Ha! Changed, have they!" he muttered. "I saw one such burning,
once before!"
VI.
The most wonderful thing in history, pointing with the surest finger
to the trail of destiny, has been the fact that in every tremendous
crisis there have been leaders on the spot to meet it. It is not
so wonderful that there should be such men, for the world keeps
growing better, and it is more than likely that the men who have
left their footprints in the sands of time would compare to their
own disadvantage with their compeers of today. The wonderful thing
is that the right men have been in the right place at the right time.
Scipio met Hannibal; Philip of Spain was forced to meet Howard of
Effingham and Drake; Napoleon Bonaparte, the "Man of Destiny," found
Wellington and Nelson of the Nile to deal with him; and, in America,
men like George Washington and Grant and Lincoln seem, in the light
of history, like timed, calculated, controlling devices in an intricate
machine.
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