QTJEKCUS ALBA 



THE VETERAN OF THE OZARKS 



T TOW do I, the chronicler, 

 know the truth of the tale 

 I am to tell? The question is a 

 fair one; yet I shall not answer, 

 because I cannot. Moreover, no 

 man in the same position could 

 answer. If I were to reply at all 

 it would be by asking a question 

 in turn; and that random query 



