That could be done in one way only--by a close examination of both systems.

The first he knew well; he had practised it for nearly forty years.

Of the second he had but an inkling.

Also, if he would learn more of it he must make haste, seeing that its exponent in some short while would cease to be in a position to set it out.
"I trust that you will come again," said Owen to Hokosa as they left the chapel.
"Yes, indeed, Messenger," answered the wizard; "I will come every day, and if you permit it, I will attend your private teachings also, for I accept nothing without examination, and I greatly desire to study this new doctrine of yours, root and flower and fruit." ***** On the morrow Noma started upon her journey.

As the matrons who accompanied her gave out with a somewhat suspicious persistency, its ostensible object was to visit the Mount of Purification, and there by fastings and solitude to purge herself of the sin of having given birth to a stillborn child.