He preferred to sway the lama by his own speech--not through the wiles of Hurree Babu.
'Assuredly.

I told him of my dream, and of the manner by which I had acquired merit by causing thee to be taught wisdom.' 'Thou didst not say I was a Sahib ?' 'What need?
I have told thee many times we be but two souls seeking escape.

He said--and he is just herein--that the River of Healing will break forth even as I dreamed--at my feet, if need be.

Having found the Way, seest thou, that shall free me from the Wheel, need I trouble to find a way about the mere fields of earth--which are illusion?
That were senseless.

I have my dreams, night upon night repeated; I have Jataka; and I have thee, Friend of all the World.