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"Then that settles that point," said Goldberger, with what seemed to me a sigh of relief. "There is one thing, though," said Sylvester, eyeing Mahbub curiously; "I wish I knew the secret of these extraordinary prints." "I can tell it to you," said Silva, with a little smile. "It is not at all extraordinary.
He saw Indian bungalows are open through and through the Englishman return to a small dressing-room, in a comer of the veranda, that was half office, littered with papers and despatch-boxes, and sit down to study Mahbub Ali's message. His face, by the full ray of the kerosene lamp, changed and darkened, and Kim, used as every beggar must be to watching countenances, took good note. 'Will!
"I fear that you are doing Mahbub an injustice in your thoughts," Silva said, gravely. "You have heard certain tales of the Thugs, perhaps tales distorted and magnified and untrue. In the old days, as worshippers of Kali, they did, sometimes, offer her a human sacrifice; but that was long ago. To say a man is a Thug is not to say he is also a murderer."
'Now another to Amritzar, said Kim, who had no notion of spending Mahbub Ali's money on anything so crude as a paid ride to Umballa. 'The price is so much. The small money in return is just so much. I know the ways of the te-rain ... Never did yogi need chela as thou dost, he went on merrily to the bewildered lama. 'They would have flung thee out at Mian Mir but for me. This way!
'I have a desire to hear of that same madrissah. Mahbub stuffed himself with great boluses of spiced mutton fried in fat with cabbage and golden-brown onions. 'But tell me first, altogether and truthfully, the manner of thy escape. For, O Friend of all the World, he loosed his cracking belt 'I do not think it is often that a Sahib and the son of a Sahib runs away from there. 'How should they?
"Mahbub appeared at the inner door, received a sharp order, and disappeared again. A moment later, there was a little swirl of smoke from the door of his room, and a sharp, over-powering odour, which turned me faint. "And then Señor Silva, who had been pacing, up and down the room, stopped suddenly and looked at me, his face distorted. "'Is it that? he muttered. 'Can it be that?
I do not wish to be beaten. 'The Hand of Friendship has averted the Whip of Calamity; but another time, when thou takest the Road it will be with me. This is too early. 'Late enough for me. I have learned to read and to write English a little at the madrissah. I shall soon be altogether a Sahib. 'Hear him! laughed Mahbub, looking at the little drenched figure dancing in the wet.
Mahbub Ali knows this, and he will be angry if thou returnest to the Road now. Remember much has been told me which I do not forget. 'I will wait, said Kim, 'but the boys will beat me. Then the bugles blew for dinner. Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised With idiot moons and stars retracing stars? Creep thou betweene thy coming's all unnoised.
'And who are thy people, Friend of all the World? 'This great and beautiful land, said Kim, waving his paw round the little clay-walled room where the oil-lamp in its niche burned heavily through the tobacco-smoke. 'And, further, I would see my lama again. And, further, I need money. 'That is the need of everyone, said Mahbub ruefully.
Kim, fending the lama between excited men and excited beasts, sidled along the cloisters to the far end, nearest therailway station, where Mahbub Ali, the horse-trader, lived when he came in from that mysterious land beyond the Passes of the North.
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