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No ... Then I will at least cook ye good food. 'What a woman is the Sahiba! said the white-bearded Oorya, when a tumult rose by the kitchen quarters. 'She has never forgotten a friend: she has never forgotten an enemy in all her years. And her cookery wah! He rubbed his slim stomach.

He had not long been married to Miss Youghal, but he scented in the telegram a chance of return to the old detective work that his soul lusted after, and next night he came in and heard our story. He finished his pipe and said oracularly: "we must get at the evidence. Oorya bearer, Mussalman khit and methraniayah, I suppose, are the pillars of the charge.

He finished his pipe and said oracularly, 'We must get at the evidence. Oorya bearer, Mussulman khit and sweeper ayah, I suppose, are the pillars of the charge. I am on in this piece; but I'm afraid I'm getting rusty in my talk. He rose and went into Biel's bedroom, where his trunk had been put, and shut the door.

St Xavier's boys sometimes brought them in by stealth to snigger over among their mates; for the language of the grateful patient recounting his symptoms is most simple and revealing. The Oorya, not unanxious to play off one parasite against the other, slunk away towards the dovecote. 'Yes, said Kim, with measured scorn.

So, when with scufflings and scrapings and a hot air of importance, paddled up nothing less than the Sahiba's pet palanquin sent twenty miles, with that same grizzled old Oorya servant in charge, and when they reached the disorderly order of the long white rambling house behind Saharunpore, the lama took his own measures.

'Get her her pipe. In the name of the Gods, get her her pipe and stop her ill-omened mouth, cried an Oorya, tying up his shapeless bundles of bedding. 'She and the parrots are alike. They screech in the dawn. 'The lead-bullocks! Hai! Look to the lead-bullocks! They were backing and wheeling as a grain-cart's axle caught them by the horns.

But news travels fast in India, and too soon shuffled across the crop-land, bearing a basket of fruits with a box of Kabul grapes and gilt oranges, a white-whiskered servitor a lean, dry Oorya begging them to bring the honour of their presence to his mistress, distressed in her mind that the lama had neglected her so long.

'That was the place, said the lama. 'So far, at least, we can go with her. 'Flies go to carrion, said the Oorya, in an abstracted voice. 'For the sick cow a crow; for the sick man a Brahmin. Kim breathed the proverb impersonally to the shadow-tops of the trees overhead. The Oorya grunted and held his peace. 'So then we go with her, Holy One? 'Is there any reason against?

To this Kim assented with wise nods, and bade the Oorya observe that the lama took no money, and that the cost of his and Kim's food would be repaid a hundred times in the good luck that would attend the caravan henceforward. He also told stories of Lahore city, and sang a song or two which made the escort laugh.