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Updated: June 11, 2025
The evening patrol hurried out of the police-station with important coughings and reiterated orders; and a live charcoal ball in the cup of a wayside carter's hookah glowed red while Kim's eye mechanically watched the last flicker of the sun on the brass tweezers. The life of the parao was very like that of the Kashmir Serai on a small scale.
It will not hurt them to take the sun. Besides, they are cheap. But with sick stones it is very different. He piled Kim's plate anew. 'There is no one but me can doctor a sick pearl and re-blue turquoises. I grant you opals any fool can cure an opal but for a sick pearl there is only me. Suppose I were to die! Then there would be no one ... Oh no! You cannot do anything with jewels.
In place of the tremulous, shrinking trader there lolled against the corner an all but naked, ash-smeared, ochre-barred, dusty-haired Saddhu, his swollen eyes opium takes quick effect on an empty stomach luminous with insolence and bestial lust, his legs crossed under him, Kim's brown rosary round his neck, and a scant yard of worn, flowered chintz on his shoulders.
A little west by north from the inspector's bungalow was Kim's Bayou and it was undoubtedly to the forest trail over which she had gone at least once before, on the night of the mysterious assault upon Mooie, that Marette was leading him. Questions began to rush upon him now, immediate demanding questions. They were going to the river. They must be going to the river.
'Not when I brought thee' Kim actually dared to use the turn of equals 'a white stallion's pedigree that night? 'Much is gained by forgetting, little brother, said the Colonel, with a look that pierced through Kim's shoulder-blades as he scuttled into the carriage. It took him nearly five minutes to recover. Then he sniffed the new air appreciatively. 'A rich city, he said. 'Richer than Lahore.
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.
The horse was reined back almost on its haunches, and forced towards the culvert. 'Never again, said Mahbub, 'will I take a shod horse for night-work. They pick up all the bones and nails in the city. He stooped to lift its forefoot, and that brought his head within a foot of Kim's. 'Down keep down, he muttered. 'The night is full of eyes. 'Two men wait thy coming behind the horse-trucks.
He says the girl went aboard the scow and that the scow started down-river. That much I learned, sir. But all the rest he mumbles in a tongue I can not understand. Crossen says it's Cree, and that old Mooie believes devils jumped on him with clubs down at Kim's Bayou. Of course they must have been men. I don't believe in Mooie's devils, sir."
For be it known that even in that early day Ah Kim's emporium was beginning to cater to the tourist trade from the States.
We'll look first, said Father Victor, leisurely rolling out poor Kimball O'Hara's 'ne varietur' parchment, his clearance-certificate, and Kim's baptismal certificate. On this last O'Hara with some confused idea that he was doing wonders for his son had scrawled scores of times: 'Look after the boy. Please look after the boy' signing his name and regimental number in full.
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