Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.

It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other beingGreenmantle (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps(1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started.

The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, to which there are many other references in the novel; Hannay uses a copy of Pilgrim's Progress to decipher coded messages from his contacts, and letters from his friend Peter Pienaar.

Well, I did get it right that Cato and Catiline were enemies (see below)

Caroline

Cataline was brought to trial later that same year, but this time it was for his role in the Sullan proscriptions. At the insistence of Cato the Younger, then quaestor, all men who had profited during the proscriptions were brought to trial. For his involvement, Catiline was accused of killing his former brother-in-law Marcus Marius Gratidianus,^[15] carrying this man’s severed head through the streets of Rome and then having Sulla add him to the proscription to make it legal. Other allegations claimed that he murdered several other notable men.^[16] Despite this, Catiline was acquitted again, though some surmise that it was through the influence of Caesar who presided over the court.

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Cataline (clearly the impostor) was the nickname given to Jean Caux or Jean-Jacques Caux, the most famous mule packer of the Canadian West.

Detail of Catiline in Maccari's fresco inPalazzo Madama

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