my Spirit. The last three years I had spent hours each day in my room, contemplating a withered rose.

“See the reality behind the flower,” said my master each morning; and in the evening when he came to me, he would inquire, “My son, did you see the real rose?” I always replied in the affirmative, and each time my master would look at the withered flower lying on the ground before me and would shake his head.

Two years later an aroused village came to my master, and the men casting themselves on the ground before him, told him of the evil that had come out of the desert. The wizard, Johan, and, I hate to say it, my brother, joining themselves to the forces of evil, had caused a pest of ants to devour the food in the homes of the people and even the homes themselves, saying that unless ten camels laden with gold were sent to them, a dire calamity would befall them.

“Oh, sire,” the spokesman of the village cried, “we are poor people; we could not load two camels with gold, let alone ten. You must help us.”

“Let not your minds become anxious or your spirits downcast,” Kimbaw answered. “Know this: good overshadows evil as a mountain casts its reflection in a lake. Go home, put your troubles from your mind, gather your wives and children, and go to the hill that lies behind the village and contemplate the sunset. In two sunsets this evil shall be removed.”

The people went their way rejoicing.

“My son,” my master spoke, “we have a weapon within us mightier than the most powerful wizardry. You, I am sad to say, cannot yet handle your weapon, but you can accompany me and by doing as I instruct, can be of help.”

That very hour we started off to the desert, and by nightfall we had reached our destination.

“This will be your part, my son,” said Kimbaw. “While we are in the home of Johan, both he and your brother will battle with us. No, it will not be with swords or daggers, but with more powerful weapons. He will wield the power of evil, and I the power of good. Know this, that there is no evil, everything is good. Evil in reality is good. See that good when we are there