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The Babu also has had dealings with him. We have watched him for three years. Red Lamas are not so common in Hind that one loses track. 'Babus are very curious, said Lurgan meditatively. 'Do you know what Hurree Babu really wants? He wants to be made a member of the Royal Society by taking ethnological notes. I tell you, I tell him about the lama everything which Mahbub and the boy have told me.
He could hear the Hindu boy breathing, however, and, guided by the sound, crawled across the floor, and cuffed into the darkness, crying: 'Give answer, devil! Is this the way to lie to a Sahib? From the darkness he fancied he could hear the echo of a chuckle. It could not be his soft-fleshed companion, because he was weeping. So Kim lifted up his voice and called aloud: 'Lurgan Sahib!
Carried away by enthusiasm, he volunteered to show Lurgan Sahib one evening how the disciples of a certain caste of fakir, old Lahore acquaintances, begged doles by the roadside; and what sort of language he would use to an Englishman, to a Punjabi farmer going to a fair, and to a woman without a veil.
There is a carved ivory from China representing a rat sucking an egg; and there is last ah ha! a ball of crystal as big as a bean set on a gold leaf. He clapped his hands at the close. 'He is thy master, said Lurgan Sahib, smiling. 'Huh! He knew the names of the stones, said Kim, flushing. 'Try again! With common things such as he and I both know.
But what interested Kim more than all these things he had seen devil-dance masks at the Lahore Museum was a glimpse of the soft-eyed Hindu child who had left him in the doorway, sitting cross-legged under the table of pearls with a little smile on his scarlet lips. 'I think that Lurgan Sahib wishes to make me afraid. And I am sure that that devil's brat below the table wishes to see me afraid.
Neots, Bedford, Northampton, Colchester, York, Cambridge; in Ireland at Ballymena, Belfast, Carrickfergus, Lurgan, Cookstown, Dublin. As the interest of Englishmen in Foreign Missions was still in its infancy, a long list like this is remarkable.
Something long and round bent under the pressure, there was a whirr and the voice stopped as voices must if you ram a thrice-doubled coat on to the wax cylinder and into the works of an expensive phonograph. Kim finished his slumbers with a serene mind. In the morning he was aware of Lurgan Sahib looking down on him. 'Oah! said Kim, firmly resolved to cling to his Sahib-dom.
'I superintended entire operation, which was most interesting from ethnological point of view. It was high-class dawut. 'Huh! said Kim, recognizing Hurree Babu, who smiled ingratiatingly. 'And also I had honour to bring down from Lurgan your present costume. I am not in the habit offeecially of carrying such gauds to subordinates, but' he giggled 'your case is noted as exceptional on the books.
He says that thou hast altogether wasted sixty days upon the Road, and it is too late, therefore, to send thee to any Hill-school. 'I have said that my holidays are my own. I do not go to school twice over. That is one part of my bond. 'The Colonel Sahib is not yet aware of that contract. Thou art to lodge in Lurgan Sahib's house till it is time to go again to Nucklao.
But first we must get rid of these. He plucked his thin linen trousers and dragged at his collar. 'I have brought with me all that I need on the Road. My trunk has gone up to Lurgan Sahib's. 'Who sends his salaams to thee Sahib. 'Lurgan Sahib is a very clever man. But what dost thou do? 'I go North again, upon the Great Game. What else? Is thy mind still set on following old Red Hat?
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