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Updated: June 11, 2025
Sometimes a woman or a poor man, watching the ritual it was nothing less when the great yellow chart was unfolded, would throw a few flowers or a handful of cowries upon its edge. It sufficed these humble ones that they had met a Holy One who might be moved to remember them in his prayers. 'Cure them if they are sick, said the lama, when Kim's sporting instincts woke.
Huneefa, in some sort of drugged ecstasy, wrenched herself to and fro as she sat cross-legged by Kim's still head, and called upon devil after devil, in the ancient order of the ritual, binding them to avoid the boy's every action. 'With Him are the keys of the Secret Things!
'They say, the old man's eye lighted at Kim's speech 'they say that the meaning of my horoscope is now accomplished, and that being led back though as thou knowest I went out of curiosity to these people and their Red Bull I must needs go to a madrissah and be turned into a Sahib. Now I make pretence of agreement, for at the worst it will be but a few meals eaten away from thee.
Li Faa was amazed. So were the gaping clerks. Most amazed of all was Ah Kim, yet he could not help himself; and, although no further blows fell, he cried steadily on. "But why did you cry?" Li Faa demanded often of Ah Kim. "It was so perfectly foolish a thing to do. She was not even hurting you." "Wait until we are married," was Ah Kim's invariable reply, "and then, O Moon Lily, will I tell you."
'Do they give or sell learning among the Sahibs? Ask them, said the lama, and Kim interpreted. 'They say that money is paid to the teacher but that money the Regiment will give ... What need? It is only for a night. 'And the more money is paid the better learning is given? The lama disregarded Kim's plans for an early flight. 'It is no wrong to pay for learning.
The house-lights, scattered on every level, made, as it were, a double firmament. Some were fixed, others belonged to the 'rickshaws of the careless, open-spoken English folk, going out to dinner. 'It is here, said Kim's guide, and halted in a veranda flush with the main road. No door stayed them, but a curtain of beaded reeds that split up the lamplight beyond.
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."
'I am responsible for the honour of this house. Go! and he drove the underlings before him. Said the hakim, hardly more than shaping the words with his lips: 'How do you do, Mister O'Hara? I am jolly glad to see you again. Kim's hand clenched about the pipe-stem.
'Oah no. Not that I know, but of course he found a letter-writer who can write English verree well, and so he wrote. I do hope you understand. 'That accounts for it. D'you know anything about his money affairs? Kim's face showed that he did not. 'How can I tell? 'That's what I'm askin'. Now listen if you can make head or tail o' this.
"Kim's" talk fairly represents the ordinary talk of the Indian, although he was not one himself. But the high flights such as he had in mind are only to be found in novels. It is an instance of its Catholicity that it supplies the needs of all nations. When carefully translated, many of the people of the East make more use of it than some good Christians do in England.
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