CHAPTER V.

IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE.

Five long and fateful years had rolled up the self-inflicted sacrifices of the man from Kankakee.

In the remote glades of Gingalee lonely Alonzo Leffingwell has finally completed the curriculum of the fifty-seven Paths in accordance with schools of Hindustan.

The Western Votary of “Meditation” had attained to the Highest Degree of “the first Discipline.”

He is now descended from the inaccessible mountain upon which he received his education in the Lesser Attainments.

He is now released from the “Cave of the Happy Musings of Misery.”

His pilgrimages, penances and prostrations are suspended.