FOREWORD
TO
1937
EDITION
On
board theQueen
Mary
Jan.
22, 1935.
IN
March, 1905, we were
in
Los Angeles
on
a
lecture tour.
The
morning
after the lecture,
we were
met at the
Van
Nuys
Hotel
by
some
Eastern
friends who, addressing
the
Chief,
*
said:
"We
have a message for you.
There
is
a strange
woman
in
the Hills who
wishes to see you." Accordingly, we took
thetram
to
the
end
of
the
track,
then
set
out
on
foot to
climb
what, I
think,arenow
called
the
Beverly Hills.
On
the green
slope
higher
up
was a small
white
cottage;
in
front
of this, a
woman
dressed like a farmer'swife. She waved
her apron
as
we
approached.
She was
introduced
to
us
as a
Mahatma
from
India,although
born in
Iowa. She
had
left
herhome
as a small child,
had
spent many
years study
ing
under
the
Great
Masters,
and
was now
backon
a mission
to
America. She was a strange-look
ing
person. \Ve
could
not
tell
whether
she was
thirty
or
a
hundred
and
thirty
years old.
Her
skin
was like yellow
parchment,
and
covered
with
thousands of
faint
lines
not
deep enough
to be wrinkles.
Her
eyes
had
the
faraway veiled look of a mystic.
Her
talk was
commonplace
as
she served coffee
and
•
Ernest Thompson
Seton was
known the world over
as
"The
Chief,"
a
title bestowed originally
when
he headed
the BoyScouts
of America
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