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If need be, the River will break from the ground before us. I acquired merit when I sent thee to the Gates of Learning, and gave thee the jewel that is Wisdom. Thou didst return, I saw even now, a follower of Sakyamuni, the Physician, whose altars are many in Bhotiyal. It is sufficient. We are together, and all things are as they were Friend of all the World Friend of the Stars my chela!
Do not forget, Holy One, he went on playfully. 'I am still a Sahib by thy favour. 'True. And a Sahib in most high esteem. Come to my cell, chela. 'How is that known to thee? The lama smiled.
'I had forgotten the exact run of what happened. Thou didst find it knowingly. 'And to say that I would take life is not a sin, but a madness simple. My chela aided me to the River. It is his right to be cleansed from sin with me. 'Ay, he needs cleansing. But afterwards, old man afterwards? 'What matter under all the Heavens? He is sure of Nibban enlightened as I am. 'Well said.
'I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp, said the lama, smiling slowly. 'I am thy chela. Kim dropped into step at his side that indescribable gait of the long-distance tramp all the world over. 'Now let us walk, muttered the lama, and to the click of his rosary they walked in silence mile upon mile.
"I wondered too. But I knew I had some clue to it, so I looked through some books by Rudyard Kipling, and found that Chela meant 'Disciple. What you have told me just now about 'Guru' being 'teacher, seems to piece the whole thing together." "And what did Daisy do?" asked Mrs Lucas breathlessly.
Like an infant, the saint obediently swallowed the food after the chela had brought it to her lips. It was plain that the Blissful Mother did not recognize any difference between curries and sweetmeats! As dusk approached, the saint left with her party amidst a shower of rose petals, her hands raised in blessing on the little lads.
She wiped her red old eyes on a corner of her veil, and clucked throatily. 'Women talk, said the lama at last, 'but that is a woman's infirmity. I gave her a charm. She is upon the Wheel and wholly given over to the shows of this life, but none the less, chela, she is virtuous, kindly, hospitable of a whole and zealous heart. Who shall say she does not acquire merit?
The boy's mother knew nothing, and the father in the nights of the cold weather it was "Pray to the Gods," said he, forsooth, and turning over, snored! 'I gave her the charm. What is an old man to do? "'To abstain from action is well except to acquire merit." 'Ah chela, if thou desertest me, I am all alone. 'He found his milk-teeth easily at any rate, said the old lady.
'And, said the lama, repeating a many-times-told tale, 'never was such a chela. Temperate, kindly, wise, of ungrudging disposition, a merry heart upon the road, never forgetting, learned, truthful, courteous. Great is his reward! 'I know the boy as I have said. 'And he was all those things? 'Some of them but I have not yet found a Red Hat's charm for making him overly truthful.
'He speaks of Jam-lin-nin-k'or, the Horse That Can Go Round The World In a Day. 'I speak to my chela only, said the lama, in gentle reproof, and they scattered like frost on south eaves of a morning. 'I did not seek truth in those days, but the talk of doctrine. All illusion! I drank the beer and ate the bread of Guru Ch'wan. I went, and we fought a day. 'But how, Holy One?
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