"In my gratitude I forget myself.

But you have my motive in coming here--the desire to repay you; to look into the future of your son; to see the evils that may threaten his youth and manhood, and to place you on your guard against them.

'Forwarned is fore-armed,' you know.

Do not doubt my power.

In far-off Oriental lands, under the golden stars of Syria, I learned the lore of the wise men of the East.