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'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.
'Up and down the land, as he has these three years. He seeks a River of Healing. God's curse upon all Mahbub checked himself. 'He beds down at the Temple of the Tirthankars or at Buddh Gaya when he is in from the Road. Then he goes to see the boy at the madrissah, as we know for the boy was punished for it twice or thrice. He is quite mad, but a peaceful man. I have met him.
'Yes, Madrissah, school, sir, and he tagged after to see what else the imbecile wanted. A line of railway track, that must have fed big workshops in its time, led me between big-roomed houses and offices labelled departmentally, with here and there a clerk at work.
I went for a purposeless walk from one end of the place to the other, and found a crowd of native boys playing football on what might have been a parade-ground of old days. 'And what school is that? I asked in English of a small, eager youth. 'Madrissah, said he most intelligently, which being translated means just 'school. 'Yes, but what school?
Never put it elsewhere, and please God, thou shalt some day kill a man with it. 'Hai mai! said Kim ruefully. 'If a Sahib kills a man he is hanged in the jail. 'True: but one pace beyond the Border, men are wiser. Put it away; but fill it first. Of what use is a gun unfed? 'When I go back to the madrissah I must return it. They do not allow little guns. Thou wilt keep it for me?
We do not want a horse-fight at every resting-stage, and the dun and the black will be locked in a little ... Now hear me. Is it necessary to the comfort of thy heart to see that lama? 'It is one part of my bond, said Kim. 'If I do not see him, and if he is taken from me, I will go out of that madrissah in Nucklao and, and once gone, who is to find me again? 'It is true.
Never was colt held on a lighter heel-rope than thou. Mahbub nodded his head. 'Do not be afraid. Kim spoke as though he could have vanished on the moment. 'My lama has said that he will come to see me at the madrissah 'A beggar and his bowl in the presence of those young Sa 'Not all! Kim cut in with a snort.
Even when I was with that white Regiment I was very young and small and had no wisdom. But now I learn every day, and in three years the Colonel will take me out of the madrissah and let me go upon the Road with Mahbub hunting for horses' pedigrees, or maybe I shall go by myself; or maybe I shall find the lama and go with him. Yes; that is best.
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