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Updated: May 1, 2025
Remember, I have reached Knowledge, as I told thee only three nights back. Wilt thou slay him or drown him in that wonderful river from which the Babu dragged thee? 'I was dragged from no river, said the lama simply. 'Thou hast forgotten what befell. I found it by Knowledge. 'Oh, ay. True, stammered Mahbub, divided between high indignation and enormous mirth.
He waited idly for a few minutes, expecting to see them hurry up the line girt for action. A light engine slid through the station, and he caught a glimpse of young Barton in the cab. 'I did that child an injustice. He is not altogether a fool, said Mahbub Ali. 'To take a fire-carriage for a thief is a new game!
Some day he might be almost as great as Mahbub Ali! The housetops of his search should be half India; he would follow Kings and Ministers, as in the old days he had followed vakils and lawyers' touts across Lahore city for Mahbub Ali's sake. Meantime, there was the present, and not at all unpleasant, fact of St Xavier's immediately before him.
It was at this time that he had the vision of "Jesus God," already referred to, between the years 1860 and 1865. Like Caedmon, he has described his vision in verse "Upon the grave of Master Mahbub Shah Slept Sain Chet Earn. A man came in a glorious form, Showing a face of mercy. Sweet was his speech and simple his face, Appearing entirely as the image of God. He called aloud, 'Who sleeps there?
'Upon a Wednesday, and in the morning, to put on new clothes is auspicious, said Mahbub solemnly. 'But we must not forget the wicked folk in the world. So! He capped all the splendour, that was taking Kim's delighted breath away, with a mother-of-pearl, nickel-plated, self-extracting .450 revolver. 'I had thought of a smaller bore, but reflected that this takes Government bullets.
Then they met Sikandar Khan coming down with a few unsaleable screws remnants of his string and Mahbub, who has more of horse-coping in his little fingernail than Sikandar Khan in all his tents, must needs buy two of the worst, and that meant eight hours' laborious diplomacy and untold tobacco.
'It is a very sure tie between us. Indeed, thy hold is surer even than mine; for who would miss a boy beaten to death, or, it may be, thrown into a well by the roadside? Most people here and in Simla and across the passes behind the Hills would, on the other hand, say: "What has come to Mahbub Ali?" if he were found dead among his horses. Surely, too, the Colonel Sahib would make inquiries.
'Mahbub Ali has given me this proof. Kim flipped the wad of folded paper into the air, and it fell in the path beside the man, who put his foot on it as a gardener came round the corner. When the servant passed he picked it up, dropped a rupee Kim could hear the clink and strode into the house, never turning round.
The lama held out the begging-bowl mechanically. 'God's curse on all unbelievers! said Mahbub. 'I do not give to a lousy Tibetan; but ask my Baltis over yonder behind the camels. They may value your blessings. Oh, horseboys, here is a countryman of yours. See if he be hungry.
Kim stole out and away, as unremarkable a figure as ever carried his own and a few score thousand other folk's fate slung round his neck. Mahbub Ali's directions left him little doubt of the house in which his Englishman lived; and a groom, bringing a dog-cart home from the Club, made him quite sure.
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