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'Now I pay, said Kim royally, 'and now I need another letter to be written. 'Mahbub Ali is in Umballa, said the writer jauntily. He was, by virtue of his office, a bureau of general misinformation. 'This is not to Mahbub, but to a priest. Take thy pen and write quickly. To Teshoo Lama, the Holy One from Bhotiyal seeking for a River, who is now in the Temple of the Tirthankars at Benares.
'Up and down the land, as he has these three years. He seeks a River of Healing. God's curse upon all Mahbub checked himself. 'He beds down at the Temple of the Tirthankars or at Buddh Gaya when he is in from the Road. Then he goes to see the boy at the madrissah, as we know for the boy was punished for it twice or thrice. He is quite mad, but a peaceful man. I have met him.
Written by Sobrao Satai, Failed Entrance Allahabad University, for Venerable Teshoo Lama the priest of Such-zen looking for a River, address care of Tirthankars' Temple, Benares. P. M. Please note boy is apple of eye, and rupees shall be sent per hoondi three hundred per annum. For God Almighty's sake." Now, is that ravin' lunacy or a business proposition?
His name does not appear in the year's batch of those who entered for the subordinate Survey of India, but against it stand the words 'removed on appointment. Several times in those three years, cast up at the Temple of the Tirthankars in Benares the lama, a little thinner and a shade yellower, if that were possible, but gentle and untainted as ever.
He was already sufficiently startled by a letter from the Temple of the Tirthankars at Benares, enclosing a native banker's note of hand for three hundred rupees, and an amazing prayer to 'Almighty God'. The lama would have been more annoyed than the priest had he known how the bazar letter-writer had translated his phrase 'to acquire merit.
But when I had left thee it seemed better that I should go to the Temple and take counsel, for, look you, India is very large, and it may be that wise men before us, some two or three, have left a record of the place of our River. There is debate in the Temple of the Tirthankars on this matter; some saying one thing, and some another. They are courteous folk.
A day and a half have I waited, not because I was led by any affection towards thee that is no part of the Way but, as they said at the Tirthankars' Temple, because, money having been paid for learning, it was right that I should oversee the end of the matter. They resolved my doubts most clearly.
She is at least a woman of open hands, and I made a promise to return to her house if need arose. Then, perceiving myself alone in this great and terrible world, I bethought me of the te-rain to Benares, where I knew one abode in the Tirthankars' Temple who was a Seeker, even as I. 'Ah! Thy River, said Kim. 'I had forgotten the River. 'So soon, my chela? I have never forgotten it.
From time to time, now that I know the customs of letter-writers in this land, I will send thee a letter, and from time to time I will come and see thee. 'But whither shall I send my letters? wailed Kim, clutching at the robe, all forgetful that he was a Sahib. 'To the Temple of the Tirthankars at Benares. That is the place I have chosen till I find my River.
As soon as he knew the boy was white he seems to have made his arrangements accordingly. I'd give a month's pay to hear how he explained it all at the Tirthankars' Temple at Benares. Look here, Padre, I don't pretend to know much about natives, but if he says he'll pay, he'll pay dead or alive. I mean, his heirs will assume the debt. My advice to you is, send the boy down to Lucknow.
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