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Vyora, himself an emaciated boy, unfitted for physical labour, was the eldest of many brothers and sisters, who looked up to him in their hunger. He was driven to beg their food. After the poor man had passed easily all the ordeals, I appointed him "a Character-Diver," to discover the qualities and detect the faults of little children, and raised him from indigence to affluence.
The father of Vyora had possessed wealth, but from the cruelty and oppression of an enemy mightier than he, had lost both fortune and life, and at his death left a family dependent on charity.
The father told me of this, which seemed to him the more strange inasmuch as the petitioner refused to say what he required of me. When brought before me, I asked Vyora what he sought? He replied that his whole desire, his soul's longing, was to be appointed a teacher, that he might instruct youth, and see little children grow wiser around him.
There is a man whom the sagacity of Vyora discovered, whose wondrous power in his art is the admiration of Montalluyah.
Think not that the truly great Vyora was but little honoured by being appointed to an office connected with little children. The character-divers were entrusted by me with grave duties, on the proper discharge of which depended the enduring success of my polity.
One incident I will now relate. A beggar made many attempts to gain admission to my palace, but was turned away with blows; his prayers that he might speak with me were received with derision, he was looked upon as a madman, and not allowed to pass the outer gate. This same beggar Vyora, by name, saved the life of a little boy, the child of one of my leading men called Usheemee, "Men of truth."
Vyora was but the type of numbers, evidencing how capriciously wealth and honours were then distributed. "Go onward! lose not faith. Let the goodness of God support you, and the beauty and fruitfulness of the work cheer you; and when you are blest with success forget not the source whence all blessings come." Several years passed before my plans were matured. I reduced all to writing.
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