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A harsh, thin cackle behind the curtains put the hillman on his mettle for a second shot. 'Not so bad not so bad, said Kim with calm. 'But have a care, my brother, lest we we, I say be minded to give a curse or so in return. And our curses have the knack of biting home. The Ooryas laughed; the hillman sprang forward threateningly.
An increasing cackle of complaints, orders, and jests, and what to a European would have been bad language, came from behind the curtains. Here was evidently a woman used to command. Kim looked over the retinue critically. Half of them were thin-legged, grey-bearded Ooryas from down country.
'Now, since our roads run together for a while, I do not see that we in any way depart from our Search if so be we accompany her at least as far as I have forgotten the name of the city. 'Ohe! said Kim, turning and speaking in a sharp whisper to one of the Ooryas a few yards away. 'Where is your master's house? 'A little behind Saharunpore, among the fruit gardens. He named the village.
The lama suddenly raised his head, bringing his huge tam-o'-shanter hat into the full light of Kim's new-started fire. 'What is it? said he. The man halted as though struck to stone. 'I I am saved from a great sin, he stammered. 'The foreigner has found him a priest at last, whispered one of the Ooryas. 'Hai! Why is that beggar-brat not well beaten? the old woman cried.
All the country of the South is good a great and a terrible world, mumbled the lama drowsily. 'Let him sleep, said Kim, 'but look to it that we are well fed when he wakes. He is a very holy man. Again one of the Ooryas said something contemptuously. 'He is not a fakir. He is not a down-country beggar, Kim went on severely, addressing the stars. 'He is the most holy of holy men.
One of the Ooryas half apologized for his rudeness overnight, saying that he had never known his mistress of so bland a temper, and he ascribed it to the presence of the strange priest. Personally, he believed in Brahmins, though, like all natives, he was acutely aware of their cunning and their greed.
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