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'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.
Three miles off, on Umballa racecourse, Mahbub Ali, reining a grey Kabuli stallion with Kim in front of him, was saying: 'But, Little Friend of all the World, there is my honour and reputation to be considered. All the officer-Sahibs in all the regiments, and all Umballa, know Mahbub Ali. Men saw me pick thee up and chastise that boy. We are seen now from far across this plain.
Suddenly he cried angrily: "Mahbub Khan, why hast thou not gone for the doctor sahib as thou wert told, O Son of an Owl?" The face staring in horror between the heads of the sepoys was hurriedly withdrawn, and Mahbub Khan, who had lingered to see the end of the tragedy, turned and pushed his way out of the crowd.
Lurgan Sahib operated as support in reserve. 'The pony is made finished mouthed and paced, Sahib! From now on, day by day, he will lose his manners if he is kept at tricks. Drop the rein on his back and let go, said the horse-dealer. 'We need him. 'But he is so young, Mahbub not more than sixteen is he? 'When I was fifteen, I had shot my man and begot my man, Sahib.
On the way thither, Mahbub gave him much the same sort of advice as his mother gave to Lemuel, and curiously enough, Mahbub was exact to point out how Huneefa and her likes destroyed kings. 'And I remember, he quoted maliciously, 'one who said, "Trust a snake before an harlot, and an harlot before a Pathan, Mahbub Ali." Now, excepting as to Pathans, of whom I am one, all that is true.
When, in Mahbub's own picturesque language, he had muddied the wells of inquiry with the stick of precaution, Kim had dropped on him, sent from Heaven; and, being as prompt as he was unscrupulous, Mahbub Ali used to taking all sorts of gusty chances, pressed him into service on the spot.
Then my soul realised That Jesus came to give salvation. I realised that it was Jesus God Who appeared in a bodily form." Whence came the Christian seed of Chet Ram's vision? His master Mahbub Shah was a Mahomedan, and Jesus Christ is reckoned one of the Mahomedan prophets.
There was no sign of Kim or the lama. 'Up! He stirred a sleeper. 'Whither went those who lay here last even the lama and the boy? Is aught missing? 'Nay, grunted the man, 'the old madman rose at second cockcrow saying he would go to Benares, and the young one led him away. 'The curse of Allah on all unbelievers! said Mahbub heartily, and climbed into his own stall, growling in his beard.
He showed nothing of his mind when Father Victor, for three long mornings, discoursed to him of an entirely new set of Gods and Godlings notably of a Goddess called Mary, who, he gathered, was one with Bibi Miriam of Mahbub Ali's theology.
Mahbub Ali's was a name of power in Umballa. 'That is the way to win a good account with the Gods, Kim shouted after him. 'Pay me twice over when the money comes, the man cried over his shoulder. 'What was you bukkin' to that nigger about? said the drummer-boy when Kim returned to the veranda. 'I was watch-in' you. 'I was only talkin' to him. 'You talk the same as a nigger, don't you?
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