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'Well said. Especially are distances and numbers and the manner of using compasses to be learned in that game. One waits in the Hills above to show thee. 'I will learn their teaching upon a condition that my time is given to me without question when the madrissah is shut. Ask that for me of the Colonel. 'But why not ask the Colonel in the Sahibs' tongue?
'News is not meant to be thrown about like dung-cakes, but used sparingly like bhang. 'So I think now, and moreover, it did me no sort of good. But that was very long ago, he made as to brush it all away with a thin brown hand 'and since then, and especially in the nights under the punkah at the madrissah, I have thought very greatly.
I do not wish to be beaten. 'The Hand of Friendship has averted the Whip of Calamity; but another time, when thou takest the Road it will be with me. This is too early. 'Late enough for me. I have learned to read and to write English a little at the madrissah. I shall soon be altogether a Sahib. 'Hear him! laughed Mahbub, looking at the little drenched figure dancing in the wet.
The dealer laughed till he nearly fell from his horse. At a shop on the outskirts of the city the change was made, and Kim stood up, externally at least, a Mohammedan. 'This is better than some other meat that I ate with the Sikh, said Kim, grinning as he squatted, 'and assuredly they give no such victuals at my madrissah.
'I have a desire to hear of that same madrissah. Mahbub stuffed himself with great boluses of spiced mutton fried in fat with cabbage and golden-brown onions. 'But tell me first, altogether and truthfully, the manner of thy escape. For, O Friend of all the World, he loosed his cracking belt 'I do not think it is often that a Sahib and the son of a Sahib runs away from there. 'How should they?
'The Colonel is the servant of the Government. He is sent hither and yon at a word, and must consider his own advancement. I have known one Mahbub Ali for six years. So! To the madrissah I will go. At the madrissah I will learn. In the madrissah I will be a Sahib. But when the madrissah is shut, then must I be free and go among my people. Otherwise I die!
There was a long pause: then Mahbub Ali spoke in admiration: 'And with these things on thy mind, dost thou lie down and rise again among all the Sahibs' little sons at the madrissah and meekly take instruction from thy teachers? 'It is an order, said Kim blandly. 'Who am I to dispute an order? 'A most finished Son of Eblis, said Mahbub Ali. 'But what is this tale of the thief and the search?
'Son, I am wearied of that madrissah, where they take the best years of a man to teach him what he can only learn upon the Road. The folly of the Sahibs has neither top nor bottom. No matter. Maybe thy written report shall save thee further bondage; and God He knows we need men more and more in the Game.
'But, said Kim, 'I am not a Sahib, and I say I made a fault to curse thee, Mahbub Ali, on that day at Umballa when I thought I was betrayed by a Pathan. I was senseless; for I was but newly caught, and I wished to kill that low-caste drummer-boy. I say now, Hajji, that it was well done; and I see my road all clear before me to a good service. I will stay in the madrissah till I am ripe.
In a little while he will go away again. But now he is at school at a new madrissah and thou shalt be his teacher. Play the Play of the Jewels against him. I will keep tally. The child dried his tears at once, and dashed to the back of the shop, whence he returned with a copper tray. 'Give me! he said to Lurgan Sahib. 'Let them come from thy hand, for he may say that I knew them before.
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