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'Go and lie down among my horseboys for tonight thou and the lama. Tomorrow I may give thee service. Kim slunk away, his teeth in the bread, and, as he expected, he found a small wad of folded tissue-paper wrapped in oilskin, with three silver rupees enormous largesse. He smiled and thrust money and paper into his leather amulet-case.
Almost one man in five was a red-robed lama, no cleaner in dress nor more intelligent in face than the rest, and above the din of the crowd and the rush of the river rose incessantly weird chanting and the long-drawn wail of horns from the temples scattered about the town.
When they came to the crowded Lucknow station there was no sign of the lama. He swallowed his disappointment, while the Colonel bundled him into a ticca-gharri with his neat belongings and despatched him alone to St Xavier's. 'I do not say farewell, because we shall meet again, he cried. 'Again, and many times, if thou art one of good spirit. But thou art not yet tried.
His duties consisted in treating and curing Hutuktus when they were ill and . . . in poisoning them when they became too independent or extravagant or when their policies were not in accord with the wishes of the Council of Lamas of the Living Buddha or the Dalai Lama.
Or was it due to the fact that "the Great Lama of the Little Mountain" to use Marshall's disrespectful appellation for Jefferson had not yet converted the Virginia Court of Appeals into the angry oracle of his own unrelenting hatred of the Chief Justice?
Within two days my condition was so far improved that I could, had it been necessary, have left the gonpa and directed myself slowly toward India in search of a surgeon to complete my cure. While a boy kept in motion the prayer-barrel near my bed, the venerable lama who ruled the convent entertained me with many interesting stories.
There they told their tale a new one each evening so far as Kim was concerned and there were they made welcome, either by priest or headman, after the custom of the kindly East. When the shadows shortened and the lama leaned more heavily upon Kim, there was always the Wheel of Life to draw forth, to hold flat under wiped stones, and with a long straw to expound cycle by cycle.
The young Dalai Lama, who fled to Sining to escape from Latsan Khan, was restored, and under the name of Lobsang Kalsang pursued a subservient policy to China for half a century. In the year 1749 an unpleasant incident took place through a collision between the Chinese ambans and the Civil Regent or Gyalpo, who administered the secular affairs of the Dalai Lama.
He collected all the diamonds into the basket without trouble, cleaned the dust from them, raised the burden to his shoulder and started out, speaking with the Lama: "'Rest a while, I have just carried my burden to the goal and I am glad to help you with yours. "They went on and were soon out of sight, while the riders began to fight.
There my precious photographic work of several weeks was covered with earth forever. Now came my paint-box with its cakes of water-colors. "What do you do with these?" cried an angry Lama, pointing at the harmless colors. "I paint pictures." "No, you are lying. With the 'yellow' you find where gold is in the country, and with the 'blue' you discover where malachite is."
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