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Updated: May 1, 2025
'And if thou runnest away who will say it is not my fault? 'He'll run back to his dinner. Where has he to run to? the Englishman asked. 'He was born in the land. He has friends. He goes where he chooses. 'The deuce he would! The Englishman looked critically at the boy as Mahbub headed towards the barracks. Kim ground his teeth.
There is a good lock to the door. Kim translated it, sweating under the light of an oil-lamp, to Mahbub, the second day of their return-journey. The Pathan rose and stooped over his dappled saddle-bags. 'I knew it would be worthy a dress of honour, and so I made one ready, he said, smiling.
'He can go with the lama, and if Hurree Babu cares to keep an eye on them so much the better. He won't lead the boy into any danger as Mahbub would. Curious his wish to be an F R S. Very human, too. He is best on the Ethnological side Hurree.
"I should like to keep these," he said. "They would be a great addition to my collection." Silva bowed. "Mahbub will have no objection," he said. "To him, they are of no importance, since there are many hundreds of men in the world with finger-tips identical with his. That is all?" Goldberger nodded, and the two strange figures walked slowly away toward the house.
It lasted half an hour, and the moment it was over, Miss Vaughan slipped away. The yogi and Mahbub followed her, and then we three stepped forward for a last look at the body. It was robed all in white. The undertaker had managed to compose the features, and the high stock concealed the ugly marks upon the neck.
Sometimes he would tell Kim to watch a man who had nothing whatever to do with horses: to follow him for one whole day and report every soul with whom he talked. Kim would deliver himself of his tale at evening, and Mahbub would listen without a word or gesture.
Mahbub slipped from the divan and disappeared behind the curtains, and then the door opened and Señor Silva and Mr. Lester entered. I saw, at once, that there was to be another séance, and that I could not escape, for Señor Silva sat down facing the corner where I was. I could only brace myself against the wall and wait. It was a dreadful ordeal. But it had its reward," she added, with a smile.
It is time the healer of pearls took him in hand. He ripens too quickly as Sahibs reckon. This prophecy was fulfilled to the letter a month later. Mahbub had gone down to Umballa to bring up a fresh consignment of horses, and Kim met him on the Kalka road at dusk riding alone, begged an alms of him, was sworn at, and replied in English.
And my share and my joy' he smiled to the darkness 'I owe to the lama here. Also to Mahbub Ali also to Creighton Sahib, but chiefly to the Holy One. He is right a great and a wonderful world and I am Kim Kim Kim alone one person in the middle of it all. But I will see these strangers with their levels and chains... 'What was the upshot of last night's babble? said the lama, after his orisons.
'We are at the end of the pilgrimage. 'No thanks to thee thine was not cut off for good and all a week back. I heard what the Sahiba said to thee when we bore thee up on the cot. Mahbub laughed, and tugged his newly dyed beard. 'I was meditating upon other matters that tide. It was the hakim from Dacca broke my meditations.
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