Sentence:  I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous <WSD>route</WSD> to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A course or way which is traveled or passed.