Voyageurs
Page 45
by Margaret Elphinstone
The thing I'd like to know more than anything else – this is irrational, I realise – is, did he achieve the one ambition he ever expresses? Did he indeed walk every ridge in Lakeland, from Swarthmoor to Caldbeck, from Gosforth to Shap? In all my researches I have done my best to stick with the things that I know for certain, but my inmost thoughts are my own to do what I like with: I choose to believe that he did.