"What then, Sir Knight, makes you think you will find the Grail in far
lands?" the priest asked.

"It must need be so, since were it nearer home it would have been
found long since."

To which the priest made no answer.

Days later, when they were gathered about again he told the story of
Elam, the son of Anner, who had a great desire to gain wisdom and
knowledge.

"So then, young friends, he started out to learn from all the founts
of wisdom. Far he traveled and much he learned."

And then the reverend man gave long account of the places to which
Elam had gone and the things he had learned. It was a tale of many
years and it took time in the telling.

"Then when he had learned much of the wisdom of the then world and had
gained in knowledge, he returned home. And when he was there but a few
days, lo, he found that yet had his father Anner, greater knowledge
than he and wisdom more profound. And he knew this now, returned home
from all his sojournings. Nor would he have known this unless he had
traveled far, for my sons, it was in this way that he gained the
vision to see. Of a truth, it was then that he knew that his father
was wisest of men and well could he learn from him."

"I have not heard of this man Elam, before," Sir Galahad said. "Yet