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Rh And so the wedge of the East entered ever more deeply into his heart.

It was Couzens himself who first asked the Brahman about the practiced magic of India, about fakirs, yogis, gurus, and that Sixth Sense of the brown man which the baffled white savant dismisses as auto-suggestion and superstition, so as to save his face. Krishnavana began by showing him the ordinary tricks of the veranda-fakir: the tricks of the basket, the rope, the mango, and the snake-stone.

Then one day, in a village of the Ahmednager district, he showed him a Sikh guru who came out of his tent, a drawn sword in his hand, and demanded to be allowed to cut off the head of any one who claimed to be a faithful and believing Bakhta.

And when the Sikh shouted "Wahuwah" and two or three disciples, quivering with excitement and drunk with bhang, had their heads cut off, only to be restored to life a minute later, the Indian Episcopal Mission came near to losing a promising missionary.

Later Krishnavana began to initiate the Englishman into the mysteries of the left-handed sects and the Vaishnavite cult. And at night, when Couzens