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The lama tried to rise, but sank back again, sighing for his disciple, dead in far-away Kulu. Kim watched head to one side, considering and interested. 'Give me the bowl. I know the people of this city all who are charitable. Give, and I will bring it back filled. Simply as a child the old man handed him the bowl. 'Rest, thou. I know the people.

Where is your house? Have you come far? Kim asked. 'I came by Kulu from beyond the Kailas but what know you? From the Hills where' he sighed 'the air and water are fresh and cool. 'Aha! Fook Shing had once chased him out of his shop for spitting at the joss above the boots. 'Aye, child a hillman from hills thou'lt never see. 'A guru from Tibet, said Kim. 'I have not seen such a man.

The room is always prepared; the welcome is always ready ... See the women do not follow thy chela too openly. I know the women of Kulu. Take heed, chela, lest he run away when he smells his Hills again ... Hai! Do not tilt the rice-bag upside down ... Bless the household, Holy One, and forgive thy servant her stupidities.

'That doctor, learned in physic and courtesy, affirms that the people among these lower hills are devout, generous, and much in need of a teacher. In a very short time so says the hakim we come to cool air and the smell of pines. 'Ye go to the Hills? And by Kulu road? Oh, thrice happy! shrilled the old lady.

In an apartment of the forecourt overlooked by cooing doves he would sit, while she laid aside her useless veil and chattered of spirits and fiends of Kulu, of grandchildren unborn, and of the free-tongued brat who had talked to her in the resting-place.