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'Turn and look, O Jat! 'The Gods protect us, said the hooded Kamboh, emerging like a buffalo from the reeds. 'But whither went the Mahratta? What hast thou done? Kim had been trained by Lurgan Sahib; E23, by virtue of his business, was no bad actor.
So, long and furious are the debates between travellers and Eurasian ticket-collectors. Kim assisted at two or three with grave advice, meant to darken counsel and to show off his wisdom before the lama and the admiring Kamboh. But at Somna Road the Fates sent him a matter to think upon.
He walks as a physician his time being ripe. Great is his wisdom. 'And a Son of the Charm, said Kim under his breath, as the Kamboh made haste to prepare a pipe lest the Mahratta should beg. 'And who is that? the Mahratta asked, glancing sideways nervously. 'One whose child I we have cured, who lies under great debt to us. Sit by the window, man from Jullundur. Here is a sick one. 'Humph!
The Government has brought on us many taxes, but it gives us one good thing the te-rain that joins friends and unites the anxious. A wonderful matter is the te-rain. They all piled into it a couple of hours later, and slept through the heat of the day. The Kamboh plied Kim with ten thousand questions as to the lama's walk and work in life, and received some curious answers.
The Mahratta's face changed altogether at the sight, and he disposed the amulet fairly on his breast. 'Yes, he went on to the Kamboh, 'I was in haste, and the cart, driven by a bastard, bound its wheel in a water-cut, and besides the harm done to me there was lost a full dish of tarkeean. 'That was a great loss, said the Kamboh, withdrawing interest.
Kim was guided to the Temple of the Tirthankars, about a mile outside the city, near Sarnath, by a chance-met Punjabi farmer a Kamboh from Jullundur-way who had appealed in vain to every God of his homestead to cure his small son, and was trying Benares as a last resort.
'And we, said Kim, turning his back and heaping a leafplatter for the lama, 'are beyond all castes. They gorged themselves on the good food in silence. Nor till he had licked the last of the sticky sweetstuff from his little finger did Kim note that the Kamboh too was girt for travel. 'If our roads lie together, he said roughly, 'I go with thee.
'We grow stiff, I think. The weight of a six-foot man is not light to steady through miles of crowded streets, and Kim, loaded down with bundles and packages for the way, was glad to reach the shadow of the railway bridge. 'Here we eat, he said resolutely, as the Kamboh, blue-robed and smiling, hove in sight, a basket in one hand and the child in the other.
'One priest always goes about to make another priest, was the retort. Like most grossly superstitious folk, the Kamboh could not keep his tongue from deriding his Church. 'Will thy son be a priest, then? It is time he took more of my quinine. 'We Jats are all buffaloes, said the Kamboh, softening anew. Kim rubbed a finger-tip of bitterness on the child's trusting little lips.
Else I am dead. Five ten minutes alone, if I had not been so pressed, and I might 'Is he cured yet, miracle-worker? said the Kamboh jealously. 'Thou hast chanted long enough. 'Nay. There is no cure for his hurts, as I see, except he sit for three days in the habit of a bairagi. This is a common penance, often imposed on a fat trader by his spiritual teacher.
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