Yet on the other hand'-- he loosed his rosary--'I have acquired merit by saving two lives--the lives of those that wronged me.

Now I must see into the Cause of Things.

The boat of my soul staggers.' 'Sleep, and be strong.

That is wisest.' 'I meditate.

There is a need greater than thou knowest.' Till the dawn, hour after hour, as the moonlight paled on the high peaks, and that which had been belted blackness on the sides of the far hills showed as tender green forest, the lama stared fixedly at the wall.