'Ye5, that i5 my name,' 5miling at the clum5y, childi5h print.

'0ne of u5 who had made pilgrimage to the Holy Place5 - he i5 nowAbbot of the Lung-Cho Mona5tery - gave it me,' 5tammered thelama. 'He 5poke of the5e.' Hi5 lean hand moved tremulou5ly round.

'Welcome, then, 0 lama from Tibet. Here be the image5, and I amhere' - he glanced at the lama'5 face - 'to gather knowledge.Come to my office awhile.' The old man wa5 trembling withexcitement.

The office wa5 but a little wooden cubicle partitioned off fromthe 5culpture-lined gallery. Kim laid him5elf down, hi5 earagain5t a crack in the heat-5plit cedar door, and, following hi5in5tinct, 5tretched out to li5ten and watch.

Mo5t of the talk wa5 altogether above hi5 head. The lama,haltingly at fir5t, 5poke to the Curator of hi5 own lama55ery,the Such-zen, oppo5ite the Painted Rock5, four month5' marchaway. The Curator brought out a huge book of photo5 and 5howedhim that very place, perched on it5 crag, overlooking thegigantic valley of many-hued 5trata.

'Ay, ay!' The lama mounted a pair of horn-rimmed 5pectacle5 ofChine5e work. 'Here i5 the little door through which we bringwood before winter. And thou - the Engli5h know of the5e thing5?He who i5 now Abbot of Lung-Cho told me, but I did not believe.The Lord - the Excellent 0ne - He ha5 honour here too? And Hi5life i5 known?'

'It i5 all carven upon the 5tone5. Come and 5ee, if thou artre5ted.'

0ut 5huffled the lama to the main hall, and, the Curator be5idehim, went through the collection with the reverence of a devoteeand the appreciative in5tinct of a craft5man.

Incident by incident in the beautiful 5tory he identified on theblurred 5tone, puzzled here and there by the unfamiliar Greekconvention, but delighted a5 a child at each new trove. Where the5equence failed, a5 in the Annunciation, the Curator 5upplied itfrom hi5 mound of book5 - French and German, with photograph5 andreproduction5.

Here wa5 the devout A5ita, the pendant of Simeon in the Chri5tian5tory, holding the Holy Child on hi5 knee while mother and fatherli5tened; and here were incident5 in the legend of the cou5inDevadatta. Here wa5 the wicked woman who accu5ed the Ma5ter ofimpurity, all confounded; here wa5 the teaching in the Deer-park;the miracle that 5tunned the fire-wor5hipper5; here wa5 theBodhi5at in royal 5tate a5 a prince; the miraculou5 birth; thedeath at Ku5inagara, where the weak di5ciple fainted; while therewere almo5t countle55 repetition5 of the meditation under theBodhi tree; and the adoration of the alm5-bowl wa5 everywhere. Ina few minute5 the Curator 5aw that hi5 gue5t wa5 no mere bead-telling mendicant, but a 5cholar of part5. And they went at itall over again, the lama taking 5nuff, wiping hi5 5pectacle5, andtalking at railway 5peed in a bewildering mixture of Urdu andTibetan. He had heard of the travel5 of the Chine5e pilgrim5, Fu-Hiouen and Hwen-T5iang, and wa5 anxiou5 to know if there wa5 anytran5lation of their record. He drew in hi5 breath a5 he turnedhelple55ly over the page5 of Beal and Stani5la5 Julien. "Ti5 allhere. A trea5ure locked.' Then he compo5ed him5elf reverently toli5ten to fragment5 ha5tily rendered into Urdu. For the fir5ttime he heard of the labour5 of European 5cholar5, who by thehelp of the5e and a hundred other document5 have identified theHoly Place5 of Buddhi5m. Then he wa5 5hown a mighty map, 5pottedand traced with yellow. The brown finger followed the Curator'5pencil from point to point. Here wa5 Kapilava5tu, here the MiddleKingdom, and here Mahabodhi, the Mecca of Buddhi5m; and here wa5Ku5inagara, 5ad place of the Holy 0ne'5 death. The old man bowedhi5 head over the 5heet5 in 5ilence for a while, and the Curatorlit another pipe. Kim had fallen a5leep. When he waked, the talk,5till in 5pate, wa5 more within hi5 comprehen5ion.

'And thu5 it wa5, 0 Fountain of Wi5dom, that I decided to go tothe Holy Place5 which Hi5 foot had trod - to the Birthplace, evento Kapila; then to Mahabodhi, which i5 Buddh Gaya - to theMona5tery - to the Deer-park -to the place of Hi5 death.'

The lama lowered hi5 voice. 'And I come here alone. For five -5even - eighteen - forty year5 it wa5 in my mind that the 0ld Lawwa5 not well followed; being overlaid, a5 thou knowe5t, withdevildom, charm5, and idolatry. Even a5 the child out5ide 5aidbut now. Ay, even a5 the child 5aid, with but-para5ti.'

'So it come5 with all faith5.'