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Who hold Zam-Zammah, that",{"entites":[[24,30,"LOC"],[17,23,"LOC"],[41,51,"PERSON"],[24,30,"LOC"],[17,23,"LOC"],[17,23,"LOC"],[24,30,"LOC"]]}],["'fire-breathing dragon,' hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze",{"entites":[[34,40,"LOC"],[34,40,"LOC"],[34,40,"LOC"]]}],["piece is always first of the conqueror's loot.",{"entites":[]}],["There was some justification for Kim,--he had kicked Lala Dinanath's boy",{"entites":[[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[53,66,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[53,66,"PERSON"],[53,66,"PERSON"]]}],["off the trunnions,--since the English held the Punjab and Kim was",{"entites":[[47,53,"LOC"],[47,53,"LOC"],[58,61,"PERSON"],[58,61,"PERSON"],[30,37,"LOC"],[30,37,"LOC"],[58,61,"PERSON"],[47,53,"LOC"],[30,37,"LOC"]]}],["English. Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain",{"entites":[]}],["sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the",{"entites":[]}],["small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very",{"entites":[[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"]]}],["poorest. The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium,",{"entites":[]}],["and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where",{"entites":[]}],["the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim's mother's",{"entites":[[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"]]}],["sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had",{"entites":[]}],["married Kimball O'Hara, a young colour-sergeant of the Mavericks, an",{"entites":[[8,22,"PERSON"],[8,22,"PERSON"],[8,22,"PERSON"]]}],["Irish regiment. 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His estate at death",{"entites":[[41,46,"LOC"],[41,46,"LOC"],[41,46,"LOC"]]}],["consisted of three papers--one he called his 'ne varietur' because those",{"entites":[]}],["words were written below his signature thereon, and another his",{"entites":[]}],["'clearance-certificate.' The third was Kim's birth-certificate. Those",{"entites":[[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["things, he was used to say, in his glorious opium-hours, would yet make",{"entites":[]}],["little Kimball a man. On no account was Kim to part with them, for they",{"entites":[[40,43,"PERSON"],[7,14,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"],[7,14,"PERSON"],[7,14,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"]]}],["belonged to a great piece of magic--such magic as men practised over",{"entites":[]}],["yonder behind the Museum, in the big blue and white Jadoo-Gher--the",{"entites":[]}],["Magic House, as we name the Masonic Lodge. It would, he said, all come",{"entites":[]}],["right some day, and Kim's horn would be exalted between",{"entites":[[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"]]}],["pillars--monstrous pillars--of beauty and strength. The Colonel himself,",{"entites":[]}],["riding on a horse, at the head of the finest regiment in the world,",{"entites":[]}],["would attend to Kim,--little Kim that should have been better off than",{"entites":[[16,19,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"]]}],["his father. Nine hundred first-class devils, whose god was a Red Bull on",{"entites":[[61,69,"LOC"],[61,69,"LOC"],[61,69,"LOC"]]}],["a green field, would attend to Kim, if they had not forgotten",{"entites":[[31,34,"PERSON"],[31,34,"PERSON"],[31,34,"PERSON"]]}],["O'Hara--poor O'Hara that was gang-foreman on the Ferozepore line. Then",{"entites":[[13,19,"PERSON"],[13,19,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[13,19,"PERSON"]]}],["he would weep bitterly in the broken rush chair on the veranda. So it",{"entites":[]}],["came about after his death that the woman sewed parchment, paper, and",{"entites":[]}],["birth-certificate into a leather amulet-case which she strung round",{"entites":[]}],["Kim's neck.",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'And some day,' she said, confusedly remembering O'Hara's prophecies,",{"entites":[[49,55,"PERSON"],[49,55,"PERSON"],[49,55,"PERSON"]]}],["'there will come for you a great Red Bull on a green field, and the",{"entites":[]}],["Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into",{"entites":[]}],["English--'nine hundred devils.'",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["'Ah,' said Kim, 'I shall remember. 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His nickname through the wards was 'Little Friend of all",{"entites":[]}],["the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed",{"entites":[]}],["commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young",{"entites":[]}],["men of fashion. It was intrigue, of course,--he knew that much, as he",{"entites":[]}],["had known all evil since he could speak,--but what he loved was the game",{"entites":[]}],["for its own sake--the stealthy prowl through the dark gullies and lanes,",{"entites":[]}],["the crawl up a water-pipe, the sights and sounds of the women's world",{"entites":[]}],["on the flat roofs, and the headlong flight from housetop to housetop",{"entites":[]}],["under cover of the hot dark. Then there were holy men, ash-smeared",{"entites":[]}],["faquirs by their brick shrines under the trees at the riverside, with",{"entites":[]}],["whom he was quite familiar--greeting them as they returned from",{"entites":[]}],["begging-tours, and, when no one was by, eating from the same dish. The",{"entites":[]}],["woman who looked after him insisted with tears that he should wear",{"entites":[]}],["European clothes--trousers, a shirt, and a battered hat. Kim found it",{"entites":[[0,8,"LOC"],[57,60,"PERSON"],[0,8,"LOC"],[57,60,"PERSON"],[57,60,"PERSON"],[0,8,"LOC"]]}],["easier to slip into Hindu or Mohammedan garb when engaged on certain",{"entites":[]}],["businesses. One of the young men of fashion--he who was found dead at",{"entites":[]}],["the bottom of a well on the night of the earthquake--had once given him",{"entites":[]}],["a complete suit of Hindu kit, the costume of a low-caste street boy, and",{"entites":[]}],["Kim stored it in a secret place under some baulks in Nila Ram's",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[53,61,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[53,61,"PERSON"],[53,61,"PERSON"]]}],["timber-yard, beyond the Punjab High Court, where the fragrant deodar",{"entites":[[24,41,"LOC"],[24,41,"LOC"],[24,41,"LOC"]]}],["logs lie seasoning after they have driven down the Ravee. When there was",{"entites":[]}],["business or frolic afoot, Kim would use his properties, returning at",{"entites":[[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"]]}],["dawn to the veranda, all tired out from shouting at the heels of a",{"entites":[]}],["marriage procession, or yelling at a Hindu festival. Sometimes there was",{"entites":[]}],["food in the house, more often there was not, and then Kim went out again",{"entites":[[54,57,"PERSON"],[54,57,"PERSON"],[54,57,"PERSON"]]}],["to eat with his native friends.",{"entites":[]}],["As he drummed his heels against Zam-Zammah he turned now and again from",{"entites":[[32,42,"PERSON"]]}],["his king-of-the-castle game with little Chota Lai, and Abdullah the",{"entites":[[55,63,"PERSON"],[55,63,"PERSON"],[55,63,"PERSON"],[40,49,"PERSON"],[40,49,"PERSON"],[40,49,"PERSON"]]}],["sweetmeat-seller's son, to make a rude remark to the native policeman on",{"entites":[]}],["guard over rows of shoes at the Museum door. The big Punjabi grinned",{"entites":[]}],["tolerantly: he knew Kim of old. So did the water-carrier, sluicing water",{"entites":[[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"]]}],["on the dry road from his goat-skirt bag. So did Jawahir Singh, the",{"entites":[[48,61,"PERSON"],[48,61,"PERSON"],[48,61,"PERSON"]]}],["Museum carpenter, bent over new packing-cases. So did everybody in sight",{"entites":[]}],["except the peasants from the country, hurrying up to the Wonder House to",{"entites":[]}],["view the things that men made in their own Province and elsewhere. The",{"entites":[]}],["Museum was given up to Indian arts and manufactures, and anybody who",{"entites":[[23,29,"LOC"],[23,29,"LOC"],[23,29,"LOC"]]}],["sought wisdom could ask the curator to explain.",{"entites":[]}],["'Off! Off! Let me up!' cried Abdullah, climbing up Zam-Zammah's wheel.",{"entites":[[29,37,"PERSON"],[51,61,"PERSON"],[29,37,"PERSON"],[29,37,"PERSON"]]}],["'Thy father was a pastry-cook, Thy mother stole the ghi,' sang Kim. 'All",{"entites":[[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"]]}],["Mussalmans fell off Zam-Zammah long ago!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Let me up!' shrilled little Chota Lal in his gilt-embroidered cap. His",{"entites":[[29,38,"PERSON"],[29,38,"PERSON"],[29,38,"PERSON"]]}],["father was worth perhaps half a million sterling, but India is the only",{"entites":[[54,59,"LOC"],[54,59,"LOC"],[54,59,"LOC"]]}],["democratic land in the world.",{"entites":[]}],["'The Hindus fell off Zam-Zammah too. The Mussalmans pushed them off. Thy",{"entites":[]}],["father was a pastry-cook--'",{"entites":[]}],["He stopped; for there shuffled round the corner, from the roaring Motee",{"entites":[]}],["Bazar, such a man as Kim, who thought he knew all castes, had never",{"entites":[[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"]]}],["seen. 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His eyes turned",{"entites":[[8,18,"PERSON"],[8,18,"PERSON"],[24,31,"LOC"],[24,31,"LOC"],[24,31,"LOC"],[8,18,"PERSON"]]}],["up at the corners and looked like little slits of onyx.",{"entites":[]}],["'Who is that?' said Kim to his companions.",{"entites":[[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"]]}],["'Perhaps it is a man,' said Abdullah, finger in mouth, staring.",{"entites":[[28,36,"PERSON"],[28,36,"PERSON"],[28,36,"PERSON"]]}],["'Without doubt,' returned Kim; 'but he is no man of India that I have",{"entites":[[26,29,"PERSON"],[52,57,"LOC"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[52,57,"LOC"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[52,57,"LOC"]]}],["ever seen.'",{"entites":[]}],["'A priest, perhaps,' said Chota Lal, spying the rosary. 'See! He goes",{"entites":[[26,35,"PERSON"],[26,35,"PERSON"],[26,35,"PERSON"]]}],["into the Wonder House!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay, nay,' said the policeman, shaking his head. 'I do not understand",{"entites":[]}],["your talk.' The constable spoke Punjabi. 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Can any enter?'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is written above the door--all can enter.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Without payment?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I go in and out. I am no banker,' laughed Kim.",{"entites":[[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"]]}],["'Alas! I am an old man. I did not know.' Then, fingering his rosary, he",{"entites":[]}],["half turned to the Museum.",{"entites":[]}],["'What is your caste? Where is your house? Have you come far?' Kim asked.",{"entites":[[62,65,"PERSON"],[62,65,"PERSON"],[62,65,"PERSON"]]}],["'I came by Kulu--from beyond the Kailas--but what know you? From the",{"entites":[[11,15,"LOC"],[11,15,"LOC"],[11,15,"LOC"]]}],["hills where'--he sighed--'the air and water are fresh and cool.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Aha! Khitai' (a Chinaman), said Abdullah proudly. 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I tell thee he does not know how to lie--as we two know.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And if thou wilt carry a message for me as far as Umballa, I will give",{"entites":[[51,58,"PERSON"],[51,58,"PERSON"],[51,58,"PERSON"]]}],["thee money. It concerns a horse--a white stallion which I have sold to",{"entites":[]}],["an officer upon the last time I returned from the Passes. But",{"entites":[]}],["then--stand nearer and hold up hands as begging--the pedigree of the",{"entites":[]}],["white stallion was not fully established, and that officer, who is now",{"entites":[]}],["at Umballa, bade me make it clear.' (Mahbub here described the horse and",{"entites":[[3,10,"LOC"],[37,43,"PERSON"],[3,10,"LOC"],[37,43,"PERSON"],[37,43,"PERSON"],[3,10,"LOC"]]}],["the appearance of the officer.) 'So the message to that officer will be:",{"entites":[]}],["\"The pedigree of the white stallion is fully established.\" By this will",{"entites":[]}],["he know that thou comest from me. He will then say \"What proof hast",{"entites":[]}],["thou?\" and thou wilt answer: \"Mahbub Ali has given me the proof.\"'",{"entites":[[30,40,"PERSON"],[30,40,"PERSON"],[30,40,"PERSON"]]}],["'And all for the sake of a white stallion,' said Kim, with a giggle, his",{"entites":[[49,52,"PERSON"],[49,52,"PERSON"],[49,52,"PERSON"]]}],["eyes aflame.",{"entites":[]}],["'That pedigree I will give thee now--in my own fashion--and some hard",{"entites":[]}],["words as well.' A shadow passed behind Kim, and a feeding camel. Mahbub",{"entites":[[65,75,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[65,75,"PERSON"],[65,75,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["Ali raised his voice.",{"entites":[]}],["'Allah! Art thou the only beggar in the city? Thy mother is dead. Thy",{"entites":[]}],["father is dead. So is it with all of them. Well, well--' he turned as",{"entites":[]}],["feeling on the floor beside him and tossed a flap of soft, greasy",{"entites":[]}],["Mussalman bread to the boy. 'Go and lie down among my horse-boys for",{"entites":[[0,9,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"]]}],["to-night--thou and the lama. To-morrow I may give thee service.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim slunk away, his teeth in the bread, and, as he expected, he found a",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["small wad of folded tissue-paper wrapped in oil-skin, with three silver",{"entites":[]}],["rupees--enormous largesse. He smiled and thrust money and paper into",{"entites":[]}],["his leather amulet-case. The lama, sumptuously fed by Mahbub's Baltis,",{"entites":[[54,60,"PERSON"],[54,60,"PERSON"],[54,60,"PERSON"]]}],["was already asleep in a corner of one of the stalls. Kim lay down beside",{"entites":[[53,56,"PERSON"],[53,56,"PERSON"],[53,56,"PERSON"]]}],["him and laughed. He knew he had rendered a service to Mahbub Ali, and",{"entites":[[54,64,"PERSON"],[54,64,"PERSON"],[54,64,"PERSON"]]}],["not for one little minute did he believe the tale of the stallion's",{"entites":[]}],["pedigree.",{"entites":[]}],["But Kim did not suspect that Mahbub Ali, known as one of the best",{"entites":[[29,39,"PERSON"],[29,39,"PERSON"],[4,7,"PERSON"],[29,39,"PERSON"],[4,7,"PERSON"],[4,7,"PERSON"]]}],["horse-dealers in the Punjab, a wealthy and enterprising trader, whose",{"entites":[[21,27,"LOC"],[21,27,"LOC"],[21,27,"LOC"]]}],["caravans penetrated far and far into the Back of Beyond, was registered",{"entites":[]}],["in one of the locked books of the Indian Survey Department as C.25.1B.",{"entites":[[34,40,"LOC"],[34,40,"LOC"],[34,40,"LOC"]]}],["Twice or thrice yearly C.25 would send in a little story, badly told but",{"entites":[]}],["most interesting, and generally--it was checked by the statements of",{"entites":[]}],["R.17 and M.4--quite true. It concerned all manner of out-of-the-way",{"entites":[]}],["mountain principalities, explorers of nationalities other than English,",{"entites":[[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"]]}],["and the gun-trade--was, in brief, a small portion of that vast mass of",{"entites":[]}],["'information received' on which the Indian Government acts. But,",{"entites":[[36,42,"LOC"],[36,42,"LOC"],[36,42,"LOC"]]}],["recently, five confederated Kings, who had no business to confederate,",{"entites":[]}],["had been informed by a kindly Northern Power that there was a leakage of",{"entites":[]}],["news from their territories into British India. So those Kings' prime",{"entites":[[41,46,"LOC"],[33,40,"LOC"],[41,46,"LOC"],[41,46,"LOC"],[33,40,"LOC"],[33,40,"LOC"]]}],["ministers were seriously annoyed and took steps, after the Oriental",{"entites":[]}],["fashion. They suspected, among many others, the bullying red-bearded",{"entites":[]}],["horse-dealer whose caravans ploughed through their fastnesses belly deep",{"entites":[]}],["in snow. At least, his caravan that season had been ambushed and shot at",{"entites":[]}],["twice on the way down, when Mahbub's men accounted for three strange",{"entites":[[28,34,"PERSON"],[28,34,"PERSON"],[28,34,"PERSON"]]}],["ruffians who might, or might not, have been hired for the job. Therefore",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub had avoided halting at the insalubrious city of Peshawur, and",{"entites":[[55,63,"LOC"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[55,63,"LOC"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[55,63,"LOC"]]}],["had come through without stop to Lahore, where, knowing his",{"entites":[[33,39,"LOC"],[33,39,"LOC"],[33,39,"LOC"]]}],["country-people, he anticipated curious developments.",{"entites":[]}],["And there was that on Mahbub Ali which he did not wish to keep an hour",{"entites":[[22,32,"PERSON"],[22,32,"PERSON"],[22,32,"PERSON"]]}],["longer than was necessary--a wad of closely folded tissue-paper, wrapped",{"entites":[]}],["in oil-skin--an impersonal, unaddressed statement, with five microscopic",{"entites":[]}],["pin-holes in one corner, that most scandalously betrayed the five",{"entites":[]}],["confederated Kings, the sympathetic Northern Power, a Hindu banker in",{"entites":[]}],["Peshawur, a firm of gun-makers in Belgium, and an important,",{"entites":[[0,8,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"],[0,8,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"],[0,8,"LOC"]]}],["semi-independent Mohammedan ruler to the south. This last was R.17's",{"entites":[]}],["work, which Mahbub had picked up beyond the Dora Pass and was carrying",{"entites":[[12,18,"PERSON"],[12,18,"PERSON"],[12,18,"PERSON"]]}],["in for R.17, who, owing to circumstances over which he had no control,",{"entites":[]}],["could not leave his post of observation. Dynamite was milky and",{"entites":[]}],["innocuous beside that report of C.25; and even an Oriental, with an",{"entites":[]}],["Oriental's views of the value of time, could see that the sooner it was",{"entites":[]}],["in the proper hands the better. Mahbub had no particular desire to die",{"entites":[[32,38,"PERSON"],[32,38,"PERSON"],[32,38,"PERSON"]]}],["by violence, because two or three family blood-feuds across the border",{"entites":[]}],["hung unfinished on his hands, and when these scores were cleared he",{"entites":[]}],["intended to settle down as a more or less virtuous citizen. He had never",{"entites":[]}],["passed the serai gate since his arrival two days ago, but had been",{"entites":[]}],["ostentatious in sending telegrams to Bombay, where he banked some of his",{"entites":[[37,43,"LOC"],[37,43,"LOC"],[37,43,"LOC"]]}],["money; to Delhi, where a sub-partner of his own clan was selling horses",{"entites":[[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"]]}],["to the agent of a Rajputana state; and to Umballa, where an Englishman",{"entites":[[42,49,"LOC"],[42,49,"LOC"],[60,70,"LOC"],[18,27,"LOC"],[42,49,"LOC"],[60,70,"LOC"],[18,27,"LOC"],[60,70,"LOC"],[18,27,"LOC"]]}],["was excitedly demanding the pedigree of a white stallion. The public",{"entites":[]}],["letter-writer, who knew English, composed excellent telegrams, such",{"entites":[[24,31,"LOC"],[24,31,"LOC"],[24,31,"LOC"]]}],["as:--'Creighton, Laurel Bank, Umballa.--Horse is Arabian as already",{"entites":[[30,37,"LOC"],[30,37,"LOC"],[30,37,"LOC"],[6,15,"PERSON"],[6,15,"PERSON"],[6,15,"PERSON"]]}],["advised. Sorrowful delayed-pedigree which am translating.' And later to",{"entites":[]}],["the same address: 'Much sorrowful delay. Will forward pedigree.' To this",{"entites":[]}],["sub-partner at Delhi he wired: 'Lutuf Ullah.--Have wired two thousand",{"entites":[[32,43,"PERSON"],[15,20,"LOC"],[32,43,"PERSON"],[15,20,"LOC"],[32,43,"PERSON"],[15,20,"LOC"]]}],["rupees your credit Luchman Narain's bank.' This was entirely in the way",{"entites":[[19,33,"PERSON"],[19,33,"PERSON"],[19,33,"PERSON"]]}],["of trade, but every one of those telegrams was discussed and",{"entites":[]}],["re-discussed, by parties who conceived themselves to be interested,",{"entites":[]}],["before they went over to the railway station in charge of a foolish",{"entites":[]}],["Balti, who allowed all sorts of people to read them on the road.",{"entites":[[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"]]}],["When, in Mahbub's own picturesque language, he had muddied the wells of",{"entites":[[9,15,"PERSON"],[9,15,"PERSON"],[9,15,"PERSON"]]}],["inquiry with the stick of precaution, Kim had dropped on him, sent from",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["heaven; and, being as prompt as he was unscrupulous, Mahbub Ali, used to",{"entites":[[53,63,"PERSON"],[53,63,"PERSON"],[53,63,"PERSON"]]}],["taking all sorts of gusty chances, pressed him into service on the spot.",{"entites":[]}],["A wandering lama with a low-caste boy-servant might attract a moment's",{"entites":[]}],["interest as they wandered about India, the land of pilgrims; but no one",{"entites":[[32,37,"LOC"],[32,37,"LOC"],[32,37,"LOC"]]}],["would suspect them or, what was more to the point, rob.",{"entites":[]}],["He called for a new light-ball to his hookah, and considered the case.",{"entites":[]}],["If the worst came to the worst, and the boy came to harm, the paper",{"entites":[]}],["would incriminate nobody. And he would go up to Umballa leisurely",{"entites":[[48,55,"LOC"],[48,55,"LOC"],[48,55,"LOC"]]}],["and--at a certain risk of exciting fresh suspicion--repeat his tale by",{"entites":[]}],["word of mouth to the people concerned.",{"entites":[]}],["But R.17's report was the kernel of the whole affair, and it would be",{"entites":[]}],["distinctly inconvenient if that failed to come to hand. However, God was",{"entites":[[65,68,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"]]}],["great, and Mahbub Ali felt he had done all he could for the time being.",{"entites":[[11,21,"PERSON"],[11,21,"PERSON"],[11,21,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim was the one soul in the world who had never told him a lie. That",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["would have been a fatal blot on Kim's character if Mahbub had not known",{"entites":[[51,57,"PERSON"],[51,57,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[51,57,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"]]}],["that to others, for his own ends or Mahbub's business, Kim could lie",{"entites":[[55,58,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"],[36,42,"PERSON"],[36,42,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"],[36,42,"PERSON"]]}],["like an Oriental.",{"entites":[]}],["Then Mahbub Ali rolled across the serai to the Gate of the Harpies who",{"entites":[[5,15,"PERSON"],[5,15,"PERSON"],[5,15,"PERSON"]]}],["paint their eyes and trap the stranger, and was at some pains to call on",{"entites":[]}],["the one girl who, he had reason to believe, was a particular friend of a",{"entites":[]}],["smooth-faced Kashmiri pundit who had waylaid his simple Balti in the",{"entites":[[13,21,"PERSON"],[13,21,"PERSON"],[13,21,"PERSON"]]}],["matter of the telegrams. It was an utterly foolish thing to do; because",{"entites":[]}],["they fell to drinking perfumed brandy against the Law of the Prophet,",{"entites":[]}],["and Mahbub grew wonderfully drunk, and the gates of his mouth were",{"entites":[[4,10,"PERSON"],[4,10,"PERSON"],[4,10,"PERSON"]]}],["loosened, and he pursued the Flower of Delight with the feet of",{"entites":[]}],["intoxication till he fell flat among the cushions, where the Flower of",{"entites":[]}],["Delight, aided by a smooth-faced Kashmiri pundit, searched him from head",{"entites":[[33,41,"PERSON"],[33,41,"PERSON"],[33,41,"PERSON"]]}],["to foot most thoroughly.",{"entites":[]}],["About the same hour Kim heard soft feet in Mahbub's deserted stall. The",{"entites":[[43,49,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[43,49,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[43,49,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"]]}],["horse-trader, curiously enough, had left his door unlocked, and his men",{"entites":[]}],["were busy celebrating their return to India with a whole sheep of",{"entites":[[38,43,"LOC"],[38,43,"LOC"],[38,43,"LOC"]]}],["Mahbub's bounty. A sleek young gentleman from Delhi, armed with a bunch",{"entites":[[46,51,"LOC"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[46,51,"LOC"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[46,51,"LOC"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["of keys which the Flower had unshackled from the senseless one's belt,",{"entites":[]}],["went through every single box, bundle, mat, and saddle-bag in Mahbub's",{"entites":[[62,68,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"]]}],["possession even more systematically than the Flower and the pundit were",{"entites":[]}],["searching the owner.",{"entites":[]}],["'And I think,' said the Flower scornfully an hour later, one rounded",{"entites":[[24,30,"PERSON"]]}],["elbow on the snoring carcase, 'that he is no more than a pig of an",{"entites":[]}],["Afghan horse-dealer, with no thought except women and horses. Moreover,",{"entites":[[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["he may have sent it away by now--if ever there were such a thing.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay--in a matter touching Five Kings it would be next his black heart,'",{"entites":[]}],["said the pundit. 'Was there nothing?'",{"entites":[]}],["The Delhi man laughed and resettled his turban as he entered. 'I",{"entites":[[4,9,"LOC"],[4,9,"LOC"],[4,9,"LOC"]]}],["searched between the soles of his slippers as the Flower searched his",{"entites":[[50,56,"PERSON"],[50,56,"PERSON"],[50,56,"PERSON"]]}],["clothes. This is not the man but another. I leave little unseen.'",{"entites":[]}],["'They did not say he was the very man,' said the pundit thoughtfully.",{"entites":[]}],["'They said, \"Look if he be the man, since our councils are troubled.\"'",{"entites":[]}],["'That North country is full of horse-dealers as an old coat of lice.",{"entites":[]}],["There is Sikandar Khan, Nur Ali Beg, and Farrukh Shah--all heads of",{"entites":[[41,53,"PERSON"],[24,35,"PERSON"],[9,22,"PERSON"],[41,53,"PERSON"],[24,35,"PERSON"],[24,35,"PERSON"],[9,22,"PERSON"],[41,53,"PERSON"],[9,22,"PERSON"]]}],["Kafilas--who deal there,' said the Flower.",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["'They have not yet come in,' said the pundit. 'Thou must ensnare them",{"entites":[]}],["later.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Phew!' said the Flower with deep disgust, rolling Mahbub's head from",{"entites":[[51,57,"PERSON"],[51,57,"PERSON"],[51,57,"PERSON"]]}],["her lap. 'I earn my money. Farrukh Shah is a bear, Ali Beg a",{"entites":[[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"],[27,39,"PERSON"],[27,39,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"],[27,39,"PERSON"]]}],["swashbuckler, and old Sikandar Khan--yaie! Go! I sleep now. This swine",{"entites":[[22,35,"PERSON"],[22,35,"PERSON"],[22,35,"PERSON"]]}],["will not stir till dawn.'",{"entites":[]}],["When Mahbub woke, the Flower talked to him severely on the sin of",{"entites":[[5,11,"PERSON"],[22,28,"PERSON"],[22,28,"PERSON"],[5,11,"PERSON"],[22,28,"PERSON"],[5,11,"PERSON"]]}],["drunkenness. Asiatics do not wink when they have out-manoeuvred an",{"entites":[]}],["enemy, but as Mahbub Ali cleared his throat, tightened his belt, and",{"entites":[[14,24,"PERSON"],[14,24,"PERSON"],[14,24,"PERSON"]]}],["staggered forth under the early morning stars, he came very near to it.",{"entites":[]}],["'What a colt's trick,' said he to himself. 'As if every girl in Peshawur",{"entites":[[64,72,"LOC"],[64,72,"LOC"],[64,72,"LOC"]]}],["did not use it! But 'twas prettily done. Now God He knows how many more",{"entites":[]}],["there be upon the road who have orders to test me--perhaps with the",{"entites":[]}],["knife. So it stands that the boy must go to Umballa--and by rail--for",{"entites":[[44,51,"LOC"],[44,51,"LOC"],[44,51,"LOC"]]}],["the writing is something urgent. I abide here, following the Flower and",{"entites":[]}],["drinking wine as an Afghan coper should.'",{"entites":[[20,26,"LOC"],[20,26,"LOC"],[20,26,"LOC"]]}],["He halted at the stall next but one to his own. His men lay there heavy",{"entites":[]}],["with sleep. There was no sign of Kim or the lama.",{"entites":[[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"]]}],["'Up!' He stirred a sleeper. 'Whither went those who lay here last",{"entites":[]}],["even--the lama and the boy? Is aught missing?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay,' grunted the man; 'the old madman rose at second cockcrow saying",{"entites":[]}],["he would go to Benares, and the young one led him away.'",{"entites":[[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"]]}],["'The curse of Allah on all unbelievers,' said Mahbub heartily, and",{"entites":[[46,52,"PERSON"],[46,52,"PERSON"],[46,52,"PERSON"]]}],["climbed into his own stall, growling in his beard.",{"entites":[]}],["But it was Kim who had wakened the lama--Kim with one eye laid against a",{"entites":[[41,44,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"]]}],["knot-hole in the planking, who had seen the Delhi man's search through",{"entites":[[44,49,"LOC"],[44,49,"LOC"],[44,49,"LOC"]]}],["the boxes. This was no common thief that turned over letters, bills, and",{"entites":[]}],["saddles--no mere burglar who ran a little knife sideways into the soles",{"entites":[]}],["of Mahbub's slippers, or picked the seams of the saddle-bags so deftly.",{"entites":[[3,9,"PERSON"],[3,9,"PERSON"],[3,9,"PERSON"]]}],["At first Kim had been minded to give the alarm--the long-drawn",{"entites":[[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"]]}],["'cho-or--choor!' (thief! thief!) that sets the serai ablaze of nights;",{"entites":[]}],["but he looked more carefully, and, hand on amulet, drew his own",{"entites":[]}],["conclusions.",{"entites":[]}],["'It must be the pedigree of that made-up horse-lie,' said he, 'the thing",{"entites":[]}],["that I carry to Umballa. Better that we go now. Those who search bags",{"entites":[[16,23,"LOC"],[16,23,"LOC"],[16,23,"LOC"]]}],["with knives may presently search bellies with knives. Surely there is a",{"entites":[]}],["woman behind this. Hai! Hai!' in a whisper to the light-sleeping old",{"entites":[[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["man. 'Come. It is time--time to go to Benares.'",{"entites":[[38,45,"LOC"],[38,45,"LOC"],[38,45,"LOC"]]}],["The lama rose obediently, and they passed out of the serai like",{"entites":[]}],["shadows.",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER II",{"entites":[]}],["          'For whoso will, from Pride released,",{"entites":[]}],["           Contemning neither creed nor priest,",{"entites":[]}],["           May hear the Soul of all the East",{"entites":[]}],["               About him at Kamakura.'",{"entites":[[28,36,"PERSON"],[28,36,"PERSON"],[28,36,"PERSON"]]}],["THEY entered the fort-like railway station, black in the end of night;",{"entites":[]}],["the electrics sizzling over the goods yard where they handle the heavy",{"entites":[]}],["Northern grain-traffic.",{"entites":[]}],["'This is the work of devils!' said the lama, recoiling from the hollow",{"entites":[]}],["echoing darkness, the glimmer of rails between the masonry platforms,",{"entites":[]}],["and the maze of girders above. He stood in a gigantic stone hall paved,",{"entites":[]}],["it seemed, with the sheeted dead--third-class passengers who had taken",{"entites":[]}],["their tickets overnight and were sleeping in the waiting-rooms. All",{"entites":[]}],["hours of the twenty-four are alike to Orientals, and their passenger",{"entites":[]}],["traffic is regulated accordingly.",{"entites":[]}],["'This is where the fire-carriages come. One stands behind that",{"entites":[]}],["hole'--Kim pointed to the ticket-office--'who will give thee a paper to",{"entites":[[7,10,"PERSON"],[7,10,"PERSON"],[7,10,"PERSON"]]}],["take thee to Umballa.'",{"entites":[[13,20,"PERSON"],[13,20,"PERSON"],[13,20,"PERSON"]]}],["'But we go to Benares,' he replied petulantly.",{"entites":[[14,21,"LOC"],[14,21,"LOC"],[14,21,"LOC"]]}],["'All one. Benares then. 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'It is but a tale I told",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["thee.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What is this?' the cultivator's wife leaned forward, her bracelets",{"entites":[]}],["clinking on her arm. 'Do ye both dream dreams? A Red Bull on a green",{"entites":[]}],["field, that shall carry thee to the Heavens--or what? Was it a vision?",{"entites":[]}],["Did one make a prophecy? We have a Red Bull in our village behind",{"entites":[[35,43,"LOC"],[35,43,"LOC"],[35,43,"LOC"]]}],["Jullundur city, and he grazes by choice in the very greenest of our",{"entites":[[0,9,"LOC"],[0,9,"LOC"],[0,9,"LOC"]]}],["fields!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Give a woman an old wife's tale and a weaver-bird a leaf and a thread,",{"entites":[]}],["they will weave wonderful things,' said the Sikh. 'All holy men dream",{"entites":[]}],["dreams, and by following holy men their disciples attain that power.'",{"entites":[]}],["'A Red Bull on a green field, was it?' the lama repeated. 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See how we have been",{"entites":[[45,50,"LOC"],[45,50,"LOC"],[45,50,"LOC"]]}],["helped since the dawn!'",{"entites":[]}],["The lama bowed his head in benediction.",{"entites":[]}],["'To fill my cousin's younger brother's house with wastrels--' the",{"entites":[]}],["husband began, as he shouldered his heavy bamboo staff.",{"entites":[]}],["'Thy cousin's younger brother owes my father's cousin something yet on",{"entites":[]}],["his daughter's marriage-feast,' said the woman crisply. 'Let him put",{"entites":[]}],["their food to that account. The yogi will beg, I doubt not.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay, I beg for him,' said Kim, anxious only to get the lama under",{"entites":[[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"]]}],["shelter for the night, that he might seek Mahbub Ali's Englishman and",{"entites":[[42,52,"PERSON"],[55,65,"LOC"],[55,65,"LOC"],[55,65,"LOC"],[42,52,"PERSON"],[42,52,"PERSON"]]}],["deliver himself of the white stallion's pedigree.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now,' said he, when the lama had come to an anchor in the inner",{"entites":[]}],["courtyard of a decent Hindu house behind the cantonments, 'I go away for",{"entites":[]}],["a while--to--to buy us victual in the bazar. Do not stray abroad till I",{"entites":[]}],["return.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Thou wilt return? Thou wilt surely return?' The old man caught at his",{"entites":[]}],["wrist. 'And thou wilt return in this very same shape? Is it too late to",{"entites":[]}],["look to-night for the River?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Too late and too dark. Be comforted. Think how far thou art on the",{"entites":[]}],["road--an hundred kos from Lahore already.'",{"entites":[[26,32,"LOC"],[26,32,"LOC"],[26,32,"LOC"]]}],["'Yea--and farther from my monastery. Alas! It is a great and terrible",{"entites":[]}],["world.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim stole out and away, as unremarkable a figure as ever carried his own",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["and a few score thousand other folk's fate slung round his neck. Mahbub",{"entites":[[65,75,"PERSON"],[65,75,"PERSON"],[65,75,"PERSON"]]}],["Ali's directions left him little doubt of the house in which his",{"entites":[]}],["Englishman lived; and a groom, bringing a dog-cart home from the Club,",{"entites":[[0,10,"LOC"],[0,10,"LOC"],[0,10,"LOC"]]}],["made him quite sure. 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When the servant passed",{"entites":[]}],["he picked it up, dropped a rupee,--Kim could hear the clink,--and strode",{"entites":[[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"]]}],["into the house, never turning round. Swiftly Kim took up the money; but,",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["for all his training, he was Irish enough by birth to reckon silver the",{"entites":[[29,34,"LOC"],[29,34,"LOC"],[29,34,"LOC"]]}],["least part of any game. 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They'll be here in a minute.'",{"entites":[]}],["The man still read intently.",{"entites":[]}],["'Will!' said the voice, five minutes later. 'He's come. I can hear the",{"entites":[]}],["troopers in the drive.'",{"entites":[]}],["The man dashed out bareheaded as a big landau with four native troopers",{"entites":[]}],["behind it halted at the veranda, and a tall, black-haired man, erect as",{"entites":[]}],["an arrow, swung out, preceded by a young officer who laughed pleasantly.",{"entites":[]}],["Flat on his belly lay Kim, almost touching the high wheels. His man and",{"entites":[[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"]]}],["the black stranger exchanged two sentences.",{"entites":[]}],["'Certainly, sir,' said the young officer promptly. 'Everything waits",{"entites":[]}],["while a horse is concerned.'",{"entites":[]}],["'We shan't be more than twenty minutes,' said Kim's man. 'You can do the",{"entites":[[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"]]}],["honours--keep 'em amused, and all that.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Tell one of the troopers to wait,' said the tall man, and they both",{"entites":[]}],["passed into the dressing-room together as the landau rolled away. Kim",{"entites":[[66,69,"PERSON"],[66,69,"PERSON"],[66,69,"PERSON"]]}],["saw their heads bent over Mahbub Ali's message, and heard the",{"entites":[[26,36,"PERSON"],[26,36,"PERSON"],[26,36,"PERSON"]]}],["voices--one low and deferential, the other sharp and decisive.",{"entites":[]}],["'It isn't a question of weeks. It is a question of days--hours almost,'",{"entites":[]}],["said the elder. 'I'd been expecting it for some time, but this'--he",{"entites":[]}],["tapped Mahbub Ali's paper--'clenches it. Grogan's dining here to-night,",{"entites":[[41,47,"PERSON"],[7,17,"PERSON"],[7,17,"PERSON"],[41,47,"PERSON"],[7,17,"PERSON"],[41,47,"PERSON"]]}],["isn't he?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Yes, sir, and Macklin too.'",{"entites":[[15,22,"PERSON"],[15,22,"PERSON"],[15,22,"PERSON"]]}],["'Very good. I'll speak to them myself. That matter will be referred to",{"entites":[]}],["the Council, of course, but this is a case where one is justified in",{"entites":[]}],["assuming that we take action at once. Warn the Pindi and Peshawur",{"entites":[[47,52,"LOC"],[47,52,"LOC"],[47,52,"LOC"]]}],["brigades. It will disorganise all the summer reliefs, but we can't help",{"entites":[]}],["that. This comes of not smashing them thoroughly the first time. Eight",{"entites":[]}],["thousand should be enough.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What about artillery, sir?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I must consult Macklin.'",{"entites":[[16,23,"PERSON"],[16,23,"PERSON"],[16,23,"PERSON"]]}],["'Then it means war?'",{"entites":[]}],["'No. Punishment. When a man is bound by the action of his predecessor--'",{"entites":[]}],["'But C.25 may have lied.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He bears out the other's information. Practically, they showed their",{"entites":[]}],["hand six months back. But Devenish would have it there was a chance of",{"entites":[[26,34,"PERSON"],[26,34,"PERSON"],[26,34,"PERSON"]]}],["peace. Of course they used it to make themselves stronger. Send off",{"entites":[]}],["those telegrams at once,--the new code, not the old,--mine and",{"entites":[]}],["Wharton's. I don't think we need keep the ladies waiting any longer. We",{"entites":[[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"]]}],["can settle the rest over the cigars. I thought it was coming. It's",{"entites":[]}],["punishment--not war.'",{"entites":[]}],["As the trooper cantered off Kim crawled round to the back of the house,",{"entites":[[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"]]}],["where, going on his Lahore experiences, he judged there would be",{"entites":[[20,26,"LOC"],[20,26,"LOC"],[20,26,"LOC"]]}],["food--and information. The kitchen was crowded with excited scullions,",{"entites":[]}],["one of whom kicked him.",{"entites":[]}],["'Aie,' said Kim, feigning tears. 'I came only to wash dishes in return",{"entites":[[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["for a bellyful.'",{"entites":[]}],["'All Umballa is on the same errand. Get hence. They go in now with the",{"entites":[]}],["soup. Think you that we who serve Creighton Sahib need strange scullions",{"entites":[[34,49,"PERSON"],[34,49,"PERSON"],[34,49,"PERSON"]]}],["to help us through a big dinner?'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is a very big dinner;' said Kim, looking at the plates.",{"entites":[[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"]]}],["'Small wonder. The guest of honour is none other than the Jang-i-Lat",{"entites":[[58,74,"PERSON"],[58,74,"PERSON"],[58,74,"PERSON"]]}],["Sahib' (the Commander-in-Chief).",{"entites":[]}],["'Ho!' said Kim, with the correct guttural note of wonder. He had learned",{"entites":[[11,14,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"]]}],["what he wanted, and when the scullion turned he was gone.",{"entites":[]}],["'And all that trouble,' said he to himself, thinking as usual in",{"entites":[]}],["Hindustanee, 'for a horse's pedigree! Mahbub Ali should have come to me",{"entites":[[0,11,"LOC"],[0,11,"LOC"],[0,11,"LOC"],[38,48,"PERSON"],[38,48,"PERSON"],[38,48,"PERSON"]]}],["to learn a little lying. Every time before that I have borne a message",{"entites":[]}],["it concerned a woman. Now it is men. Better. The tall man said that they",{"entites":[]}],["will loose a great army to punish some one--somewhere--the news goes to",{"entites":[]}],["Pindi and Peshawur. There are also guns. Would I had crept nearer. It is",{"entites":[[0,5,"LOC"],[10,18,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"],[10,18,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"],[10,18,"LOC"]]}],["big news!'",{"entites":[]}],["He returned to find the cultivator's cousin's younger brother discussing",{"entites":[]}],["the family law-suit in all its bearings with the cultivator and his wife",{"entites":[]}],["and a few friends, while the lama dozed. After the evening meal some one",{"entites":[]}],["passed him a water-pipe; and Kim felt very much of a man as he pulled at",{"entites":[[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"]]}],["the smooth cocoanut-shell, his legs spread abroad in the moonlight, his",{"entites":[]}],["tongue clicking in remarks from time to time. His hosts were most",{"entites":[]}],["polite; for the cultivator's wife had told them of his vision of the Red",{"entites":[]}],["Bull, and of his probable descent from another world. Moreover, the lama",{"entites":[]}],["was a great and venerable curiosity. The family priest, an old, tolerant",{"entites":[]}],["Sarsut Brahmin, dropped in later, and naturally started a theological",{"entites":[[0,14,"PERSON"],[0,14,"PERSON"],[0,14,"PERSON"]]}],["argument to impress the family. By creed, of course, they were all on",{"entites":[]}],["their priest's side, but the lama was the guest and the novelty. His",{"entites":[]}],["gentle kindliness, and his impressive Chinese quotations, that sounded",{"entites":[[38,45,"LOC"],[38,45,"LOC"],[38,45,"LOC"]]}],["like spells, delighted them hugely; and in this sympathetic, simple air",{"entites":[]}],["he expanded like the Bodhisat's own lotus, speaking of his life in the",{"entites":[]}],["great hills of Suchzen, before, as he said, 'I rose up to seek",{"entites":[[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"]]}],["enlightenment.'",{"entites":[]}],["Then it came out that in those worldly days he had been a master-hand at",{"entites":[]}],["casting horoscopes and nativities; and the family priest led him on to",{"entites":[]}],["describe his methods; each giving the planets names that the other could",{"entites":[]}],["not understand, and pointing upwards as the big stars sailed across the",{"entites":[]}],["dark. The children of the house tugged unrebuked at his rosary; and he",{"entites":[]}],["clean forgot the Rule which forbids looking at women as he talked of",{"entites":[]}],["enduring snows, landslips, blocked passes, the remote cliffs where men",{"entites":[]}],["find sapphires and turquoise, and that wonderful upland road that leads",{"entites":[]}],["at last into Great China itself.",{"entites":[[19,24,"LOC"],[19,24,"LOC"],[19,24,"LOC"],[13,18,"LOC"],[13,18,"LOC"],[13,18,"LOC"]]}],["'How thinkest thou of this one?' said the cultivator aside to the",{"entites":[]}],["priest.",{"entites":[]}],["'A holy man--a holy man indeed. His Gods are not the Gods, but his feet",{"entites":[]}],["are upon the Way,' was the answer. 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The earthquake",{"entites":[[41,55,"PERSON"],[41,55,"PERSON"],[41,55,"PERSON"]]}],["had been felt in India, and for long stood a leading date in the Punjab.",{"entites":[[17,22,"LOC"],[65,71,"LOC"],[65,71,"LOC"],[17,22,"LOC"],[17,22,"LOC"],[65,71,"LOC"]]}],["'Ai!' said a woman excitedly. This seemed to make Kim's supernatural",{"entites":[[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"]]}],["origin more certain. 'Was not such an one's daughter born then--'",{"entites":[]}],["'And her mother bore her husband four sons in four years--all likely",{"entites":[]}],["boys,' cried the cultivator's wife, sitting outside the circle in the",{"entites":[]}],["shadow.",{"entites":[]}],["'None reared in the knowledge,' said the family priest, 'forget how the",{"entites":[]}],["planets stood in their Houses upon that night.' He began to draw in the",{"entites":[]}],["dust of the courtyard. 'At least thou hast good claim to a half of the",{"entites":[]}],["House of the Bull. How runs thy prophecy?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Upon a day,' said Kim, delighted at the sensation he was creating, 'I",{"entites":[[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"]]}],["shall be made great by means of a Red Bull on a green field, but first",{"entites":[[34,42,"LOC"],[34,42,"LOC"],[34,42,"LOC"]]}],["there will enter two men making all things ready.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Yes: thus ever at the opening of a vision. A thick darkness that clears",{"entites":[]}],["slowly; anon one enters with a broom making ready the place. Then begins",{"entites":[]}],["the Sight. Two men--thou sayest? Ay, ay. The Sun, leaving the House of",{"entites":[]}],["the Bull, enters that of the Twins. Hence the two men of the prophecy.",{"entites":[]}],["Let us now consider. Fetch me a twig, little one.'",{"entites":[]}],["He knitted his brows, scratched, smoothed out, and scratched again in",{"entites":[]}],["the dust mysterious signs--to the wonder of all save the lama, who, with",{"entites":[]}],["fine instinct, forbore to interfere.",{"entites":[]}],["At the end of half an hour he tossed the twig from him with a grunt.",{"entites":[]}],["'Hm. Thus say the stars. Within three days come the two men to make all",{"entites":[]}],["things ready. After them follows the Bull; but the sign over against him",{"entites":[]}],["is the sign of War and armed men.'",{"entites":[]}],["'There was indeed a man of the Loodhiana Sikhs in the carriage from",{"entites":[]}],["Lahore,' said the cultivator's wife hopefully.",{"entites":[[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["'Tck! Armed men--many hundreds. What concern hast thou with war?' said",{"entites":[]}],["the priest to Kim. 'Thine is a red and an angry sign of War to be loosed",{"entites":[[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"]]}],["very soon.'",{"entites":[]}],["'None--none,' said the lama earnestly. 'We seek only peace and our",{"entites":[]}],["River.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim smiled, remembering what he had overheard in the dressing-room.",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["Decidedly he was a favourite of the stars.",{"entites":[]}],["The priest brushed his foot over the rude horoscope. 'More than this I",{"entites":[]}],["cannot see. In three days comes the Bull to thee, boy.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And my River, my River,' pleaded the lama. 'I had hoped his Bull would",{"entites":[]}],["lead us both to the River.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Alas, for that wondrous River, my brother,' the priest replied. 'Such",{"entites":[]}],["things are not common.'",{"entites":[]}],["Next morning, though they were pressed to stay, the lama insisted on",{"entites":[]}],["departure. They gave Kim a large bundle of good food and nearly three",{"entites":[[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"]]}],["annas in copper money for the needs of the road, and with many blessings",{"entites":[]}],["watched the two go southward in the dawn.",{"entites":[]}],["'Pity it is that these and such as these could not be freed from the",{"entites":[]}],["Wheel of Things,' said the lama.",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay, then would only evil people be left on the earth, and who would",{"entites":[]}],["give us meat and shelter?' quoth Kim, stepping merrily under his burden.",{"entites":[[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"]]}],["'Yonder is a small stream. Let us look,' said the lama, and he led from",{"entites":[]}],["the white road across the fields; walking into a very hornets'-nest of",{"entites":[]}],["pariah dogs.",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER III",{"entites":[]}],["          'Yea, voice of every Soul that clung",{"entites":[]}],["           To Life that strove from rung to rung",{"entites":[]}],["           When Devadatta's rule was young,",{"entites":[[16,25,"PERSON"],[16,25,"PERSON"],[16,25,"PERSON"]]}],["           The warm wind brings Kamakura.'",{"entites":[[32,40,"PERSON"],[32,40,"PERSON"],[32,40,"PERSON"]]}],["BEHIND them an angry farmer brandished a bamboo pole. He was a",{"entites":[[48,52,"LOC"],[48,52,"LOC"],[48,52,"LOC"]]}],["market-gardener, Arain by caste, growing vegetables and flowers for",{"entites":[[17,22,"PERSON"],[17,22,"PERSON"],[17,22,"PERSON"]]}],["Umballa city, and well Kim knew the breed.",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[23,26,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"],[0,7,"LOC"],[23,26,"PERSON"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["'Such an one,' said the lama, disregarding the dogs, 'is impolite to",{"entites":[]}],["strangers, intemperate of speech and uncharitable. Be warned by his",{"entites":[]}],["demeanour, my disciple.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ho, shameless beggars!' shouted the farmer. 'Begone! Get hence!'",{"entites":[]}],["'We go,' the lama returned, with quiet dignity. 'We go from these",{"entites":[]}],["unblessed fields.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ah,' said Kim, sucking in his breath. 'If the next crops fail, thou",{"entites":[[11,14,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"]]}],["canst only blame thy own tongue.'",{"entites":[]}],["The man shuffled uneasily in his slippers. 'The land is full of",{"entites":[]}],["beggars,' he began, half apologetically.",{"entites":[]}],["'And by what sign didst thou know that we would beg from thee, O Mali?'",{"entites":[[65,69,"LOC"],[65,69,"LOC"],[65,69,"LOC"]]}],["said Kim tartly, using the name that a market-gardener least likes. 'All",{"entites":[[5,8,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"]]}],["we sought was to look at that river beyond the field there.'",{"entites":[]}],["'River, forsooth!' the man snorted. 'What city do ye hail from not to",{"entites":[]}],["know a canal-cut? It runs as straight as an arrow, and I pay for the",{"entites":[]}],["water as though it were molten silver. There is a branch of a river",{"entites":[]}],["beyond. But if ye need water I can give that--and milk.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay, we will go to the river,' said the lama, striding out.",{"entites":[]}],["'Milk and a meal,' the man stammered, as he looked at the strange tall",{"entites":[]}],["figure. 'I--I would not draw evil upon myself--or my crops; but beggars",{"entites":[]}],["are so many in these hard days.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Take notice,' the lama turned to Kim. 'He was led to speak harshly by",{"entites":[[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"]]}],["the Red Mist of anger. That clearing from his eyes, he becomes courteous",{"entites":[]}],["and of an affable heart. May his fields be blessed. Beware not to judge",{"entites":[]}],["men too hastily, O farmer.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have met holy ones who would have cursed thee from hearthstone to",{"entites":[]}],["byre,' said Kim to the abashed man. 'Is he not wise and holy? I am his",{"entites":[[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["disciple.'",{"entites":[]}],["He cocked his nose in the air loftily and stepped across the narrow",{"entites":[]}],["field-borders with great dignity.",{"entites":[]}],["'There is no pride,' said the lama, after a pause, 'there is no pride",{"entites":[]}],["among such as follow the Middle Way.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But thou hast said he was low caste and discourteous.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Low caste I did not say, for how can that be which is not? Afterwards",{"entites":[]}],["he amended his discourtesy, and I forgot the offence. Moreover, he is as",{"entites":[]}],["we are, bound upon the Wheel of Things; but he does not tread the way of",{"entites":[]}],["deliverance.' He halted at a little runlet among the fields, and",{"entites":[]}],["considered the hoof-pitted bank.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now, how wilt thou know thy River?' said Kim, squatting in the shade of",{"entites":[[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"]]}],["some tall sugar-cane.",{"entites":[]}],["'When I find it, an enlightenment will surely be given. This, I feel, is",{"entites":[]}],["not the place. O littlest among the waters, if only thou couldst tell",{"entites":[]}],["me where runs my River! But be thou blessed to make the fields bear!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Look! Look!' Kim sprang to his side and dragged him back. A yellow and",{"entites":[[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"]]}],["brown streak glided from the purple rustling stems to the bank,",{"entites":[]}],["stretched its neck to the water, drank, and lay still--a big cobra with",{"entites":[]}],["fixed, lidless eyes.",{"entites":[]}],["'I have no stick--I have no stick,' said Kim. 'I will get me one and",{"entites":[[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"]]}],["break his back.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Why? He is upon the Wheel as we are--a life ascending or",{"entites":[]}],["descending--very far from deliverance. Great evil must the soul have",{"entites":[]}],["done that is cast into this shape.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I hate all snakes,' said Kim. No native training can quench the white",{"entites":[[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"]]}],["man's horror of the Serpent.",{"entites":[]}],["'Let him live out his life.' The coiled thing hissed and half opened its",{"entites":[]}],["hood. 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Let us find another river.'",{"entites":[]}],["Where the hard-worked soil gives three and even four crops a",{"entites":[]}],["year--through patches of sugar-cane, tobacco, long white radishes, and",{"entites":[]}],["nol-kol, all that day they strolled on, turning aside to every glimpse",{"entites":[]}],["of water; rousing village dogs and sleeping villages at noonday; the",{"entites":[]}],["lama replying to the vollied questions with an unswerving simplicity.",{"entites":[]}],["They sought a River--a River of miraculous healing. Had any one",{"entites":[]}],["knowledge of such a stream? Sometimes men laughed, but more often heard",{"entites":[]}],["the story out to the end and offered them a place in the shade, a drink",{"entites":[]}],["of milk, and a meal. The women were always kind, and the little children",{"entites":[]}],["as children are the world over, alternately shy and venturesome. Evening",{"entites":[]}],["found them at rest under the village tree of a mud-walled, mud-roofed",{"entites":[]}],["hamlet, talking to the headman as the cattle came in from the",{"entites":[]}],["grazing-grounds and the women prepared the day's last meal. They had",{"entites":[]}],["passed beyond the belt of market-gardens round hungry Umballa, and were",{"entites":[[54,61,"LOC"],[54,61,"LOC"],[54,61,"LOC"]]}],["among the mile-wide green of the staple crops.",{"entites":[]}],["He was a white-bearded and affable elder, used to entertaining",{"entites":[]}],["strangers. He dragged out a string bedstead for the lama, set warm",{"entites":[]}],["cooked food before him, prepared him a pipe, and, the evening ceremonies",{"entites":[]}],["being finished in the village temple, sent for the village priest.",{"entites":[]}],["Kim told the older children tales of the size and beauty of Lahore, of",{"entites":[[60,66,"LOC"],[60,66,"LOC"],[60,66,"LOC"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["railway travel, and such-like city things, while the men talked, slowly",{"entites":[]}],["as their cattle chew the cud.",{"entites":[]}],["'I cannot fathom it,' said the headman at last to the priest. 'How",{"entites":[]}],["readest thou this talk?' The lama, his tale told, was silently telling",{"entites":[]}],["his beads.",{"entites":[]}],["'He is a Seeker,' the priest answered. 'The land is full of such.",{"entites":[]}],["Remember him who came only last month--the faquir with the tortoise?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay, but that man had right and reason, for Krishna Himself appeared in",{"entites":[[44,59,"PERSON"],[44,59,"PERSON"],[44,59,"PERSON"]]}],["a vision promising him Paradise without the burning-pyre if he journeyed",{"entites":[]}],["to Prayag. This man seeks no god who is within my knowledge.'",{"entites":[[3,9,"LOC"],[3,9,"LOC"],[3,9,"LOC"]]}],["'Peace, he is old: he comes from far off, and he is mad,' the",{"entites":[]}],["smooth-shaven priest replied. 'Hear me.' He turned to the lama. 'Three",{"entites":[]}],["kos (six miles) to the westward runs the great road to Calcutta.'",{"entites":[[55,63,"LOC"],[55,63,"LOC"],[55,63,"LOC"]]}],["'But I would go to Benares--to Benares.'",{"entites":[[19,26,"LOC"],[31,38,"LOC"],[19,26,"LOC"],[31,38,"LOC"],[31,38,"LOC"],[19,26,"LOC"]]}],["'And to Benares also. It crosses all streams on this side of Hind. Now",{"entites":[[61,65,"LOC"],[61,65,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"],[61,65,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"]]}],["my word to thee, Holy One, is rest here till to-morrow. Then take the",{"entites":[]}],["road' (it was the Grand Trunk Road he meant) 'and test each stream that",{"entites":[[18,34,"LOC"],[18,34,"LOC"],[18,34,"LOC"]]}],["it overpasses; for, as I understand, the virtue of thy River lies",{"entites":[]}],["neither in one pool nor place, but throughout its length. Then, if thy",{"entites":[]}],["gods will, be assured that thou wilt come upon thy freedom.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is well said.' The lama was much impressed by the plan. 'We will",{"entites":[]}],["begin to-morrow, and a blessing on thee for showing old feet such a near",{"entites":[]}],["road.' A deep, sing-song Chinese half-chant closed the sentence. Even",{"entites":[[25,32,"LOC"],[25,32,"LOC"],[25,32,"LOC"]]}],["the priest was impressed, and the headman feared an evil spell: but none",{"entites":[]}],["could look at the lama's simple, eager face and doubt him long.",{"entites":[]}],["'Seest thou my chela?' he said, diving into his snuff-gourd with an",{"entites":[]}],["important sniff. It was his duty to repay courtesy with courtesy.",{"entites":[]}],["'I see--and hear.' The headman rolled his eye where Kim was chatting to",{"entites":[[52,55,"PERSON"],[52,55,"PERSON"],[52,55,"PERSON"]]}],["a girl in blue as she laid crackling thorns on a fire.",{"entites":[]}],["'He also has a Search of his own. No river, but a Bull. Yea, a Red Bull",{"entites":[[63,71,"LOC"],[63,71,"LOC"],[63,71,"LOC"]]}],["on a green field will some day raise him to honour. He is, I think, not",{"entites":[]}],["altogether of this world. He was sent of a sudden to aid me in this",{"entites":[]}],["search, and his name is Friend of all the World.'",{"entites":[]}],["The priest smiled. 'Ho there, Friend of all the World,' he cried across",{"entites":[]}],["the sharp-smelling smoke, 'what art thou?'",{"entites":[]}],["'This Holy One's disciple,' said Kim.",{"entites":[[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"]]}],["'He says thou art a but' (a spirit).",{"entites":[]}],["'Can buts eat?' said Kim, with a twinkle. 'For I am hungry.'",{"entites":[[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"]]}],["'It is no jest,' cried the lama. 'A certain astrologer of that city",{"entites":[]}],["whose name I have forgotten--'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is no more than the city of Umballa where we slept last night,'",{"entites":[[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"]]}],["Kim whispered to the priest.",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'Ay, Umballa was it? He cast a horoscope and declared that my chela",{"entites":[[5,12,"PERSON"],[5,12,"PERSON"],[5,12,"PERSON"]]}],["should find his desire within two days. But what said he of the meaning",{"entites":[]}],["of the stars, Friend of all the World?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim cleared his throat and looked around at the village graybeards.",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'The meaning of my Star is War,' he replied pompously.",{"entites":[]}],["Somebody laughed at the little tattered figure strutting on the",{"entites":[]}],["brickwork plinth under the great tree. Where a native would have lain",{"entites":[]}],["down, Kim's white blood set him upon his feet.",{"entites":[[6,9,"PERSON"],[6,9,"PERSON"],[6,9,"PERSON"]]}],["'Ay, War,' he answered.",{"entites":[]}],["'That is a sure prophecy,' rumbled a deep voice. 'For there is always",{"entites":[]}],["war along the Border--as I know.'",{"entites":[]}],["It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days",{"entites":[]}],["of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment.",{"entites":[]}],["The Government had given him a good holding in the village, and though",{"entites":[]}],["the demands of his sons, now gray-bearded officers on their own account,",{"entites":[]}],["had impoverished him, he was still a person of consequence. English",{"entites":[[60,67,"LOC"],[60,67,"LOC"],[60,67,"LOC"]]}],["officials--Deputy Commissioners even--turned aside from the main road to",{"entites":[]}],["visit him, and on those occasions he dressed himself in the uniform of",{"entites":[]}],["ancient days, and stood up like a ramrod.",{"entites":[]}],["'But this shall be a great war--a war of eight thousand,' Kim's voice",{"entites":[[58,61,"PERSON"],[58,61,"PERSON"],[58,61,"PERSON"]]}],["shrilled across the quick-gathering crowd, astonishing himself.",{"entites":[]}],["'Redcoats or our own regiments?' the old man snapped, as though he were",{"entites":[]}],["asking an equal. His tone made men respect Kim.",{"entites":[[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"]]}],["'Redcoats,' said Kim at a venture. 'Redcoats and guns.'",{"entites":[[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"]]}],["'But--but the astrologer said no word of this,' cried the lama, snuffing",{"entites":[]}],["prodigiously in his excitement.",{"entites":[]}],["'But I know. The word has come to me, who am this Holy One's disciple.",{"entites":[]}],["There will rise a war--a war of eight thousand redcoats. From Pindi and",{"entites":[[62,67,"LOC"],[62,67,"LOC"],[62,67,"LOC"]]}],["Peshawur they will be drawn. This is sure.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The boy has heard bazar-talk,' said the priest.",{"entites":[]}],["'But he was always by my side,' said the lama. 'How should he know? I",{"entites":[]}],["did not know.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He will make a clever juggler when the old man is dead,' muttered the",{"entites":[]}],["priest to the headman. 'What new trick is this?'",{"entites":[]}],["'A sign. Give me a sign,' thundered the old soldier suddenly. 'If there",{"entites":[]}],["were war my sons would have told me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'When all is ready, thy sons, doubt not, will be told. But it is a long",{"entites":[]}],["road from thy sons to the man in whose hands these things lie.' Kim",{"entites":[[64,67,"PERSON"],[64,67,"PERSON"],[64,67,"PERSON"]]}],["warmed to the game, for it reminded him of experiences in the",{"entites":[]}],["letter-carrying line, when, for the sake of a few pice, he pretended to",{"entites":[]}],["know more than he knew. But now he was playing for larger things--the",{"entites":[]}],["sheer excitement and the sense of power. He drew a new breath and went",{"entites":[]}],["on.",{"entites":[]}],["'Old man, give me a sign. Do underlings order the goings of eight",{"entites":[]}],["thousand redcoats--with guns?'",{"entites":[]}],["'No.' Still the old man answered as though Kim were an equal.",{"entites":[[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"]]}],["'Dost thou know who He is then that gives the order?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have seen Him.'",{"entites":[]}],["'To know again?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have known Him since he was a lieutenant in the topkhana' (the",{"entites":[]}],["Artillery).",{"entites":[]}],["'A tall man. A tall man with black hair, walking thus?' Kim took a few",{"entites":[[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"]]}],["paces in a stiff, wooden style.",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay. But that any one may have seen.' The crowd were breathless-still",{"entites":[]}],["through all this talk.",{"entites":[]}],["'That is true,' said Kim. 'But I will say more. Look now. First the",{"entites":[[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"]]}],["great man walks thus. 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Call out such",{"entites":[]}],["guns.\"'",{"entites":[]}],["The old man rose stiffly and saluted.",{"entites":[]}],["'\"For\"'--Kim translated into the vernacular the clinching sentences he",{"entites":[[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"]]}],["had heard in the dressing-room at Umballa--'\"For,\" says He, \"we should",{"entites":[[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"]]}],["have done this long ago. It is not war--it is a chastisement. Snff!\"'",{"entites":[]}],["'Enough. I believe. I have seen Him thus in the smoke of battles. Seen",{"entites":[]}],["and heard. It is He!'",{"entites":[]}],["'I saw no smoke'--Kim's voice shifted to the rapt sing-song of the",{"entites":[[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"]]}],["wayside fortune-teller. 'I saw this in darkness. First came a man to",{"entites":[]}],["make things clear. Then came horsemen. Then came He, standing in a ring",{"entites":[]}],["of light. The rest followed as I have said. Old man, have I spoken",{"entites":[]}],["truth?'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is He. Past all doubt it is He.'",{"entites":[]}],["The crowd drew a long, quavering breath, staring alternately at the old",{"entites":[]}],["man, still at attention, and ragged Kim against the purple twilight.",{"entites":[[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"]]}],["'Said I not--said I not he was from the other world?' cried the lama",{"entites":[]}],["proudly. 'He is the Friend of all the World. He is the Friend of the",{"entites":[]}],["Stars!'",{"entites":[]}],["'At least it does not concern us,' a man cried. 'O thou young",{"entites":[]}],["soothsayer, if the gift abides with thee at all seasons, I have a",{"entites":[]}],["red-spotted cow. She may be sister to thy Bull for aught I know--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Or I care,' said Kim. 'My Stars do not concern themselves with thy",{"entites":[[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"]]}],["cattle.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay, but she is very sick,' a woman struck in. 'My man is a buffalo, or",{"entites":[]}],["he would have chosen his words better. Tell me if she recover?'",{"entites":[]}],["Had Kim been at all an ordinary boy, he would have carried on the play;",{"entites":[[4,7,"PERSON"],[4,7,"PERSON"],[4,7,"PERSON"]]}],["but one does not know Lahore city, and least of all the faquirs by the",{"entites":[[22,28,"LOC"],[22,28,"LOC"],[22,28,"LOC"]]}],["Taksali Gate, for thirteen years without also knowing human nature.",{"entites":[[0,12,"LOC"],[0,12,"LOC"],[0,12,"LOC"]]}],["The priest looked at him sideways, something bitterly--a dry and",{"entites":[]}],["blighting smile.",{"entites":[]}],["'Is there no priest then in the village? I thought I had seen a great",{"entites":[]}],["one even now,' cried Kim.",{"entites":[[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"]]}],["'Ay--but--' the woman began.",{"entites":[]}],["'But thou and thy husband hoped to get the cow cured for a handful of",{"entites":[]}],["thanks.' The shot told: they were notoriously the closest-fisted couple",{"entites":[]}],["in the village. 'It is not well to cheat the temples. Give a young calf",{"entites":[]}],["to thy own priest, and, unless thy gods are angry past recall, she will",{"entites":[]}],["give milk within a month.'",{"entites":[]}],["'A master-beggar art thou,' purred the priest approvingly. 'Not the",{"entites":[]}],["cunning of forty years could have done better. Surely thou hast made the",{"entites":[]}],["old man rich?'",{"entites":[]}],["'A little flour, a little butter and a mouthful of cardamoms,' Kim",{"entites":[[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"]]}],["retorted, flushed with the praise, but still cautious--'does one grow",{"entites":[]}],["rich on that? And, as thou canst see, he is mad. But it serves me while",{"entites":[]}],["I learn the road at least.'",{"entites":[]}],["He knew what the faquirs of the Taksali Gate were like when they talked",{"entites":[]}],["among themselves, and copied the very inflection of their lewd",{"entites":[]}],["disciples.",{"entites":[]}],["'Is his Search, then, truth or a cloak to other ends? It may be",{"entites":[]}],["treasure.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He is mad--many times mad. There is nothing else.'",{"entites":[]}],["Here the old soldier hobbled up and asked if Kim would accept his",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["hospitality for the night. The priest recommended him to do so, but",{"entites":[]}],["insisted that the honour of entertaining the lama belonged to the",{"entites":[]}],["temple--at which the lama smiled guilelessly. Kim glanced from one face",{"entites":[[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"]]}],["to the other, and drew his own conclusions.",{"entites":[]}],["'Where is the money?' he whispered, beckoning the old man off into the",{"entites":[]}],["darkness.",{"entites":[]}],["'In my bosom. Where else?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Give it me. Quietly and swiftly give it me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But why? Here is no ticket to buy.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Am I thy chela, or am I not? Do I not safeguard thy old feet about the",{"entites":[]}],["ways? Give me the money and at dawn I will return it.' He slipped his",{"entites":[]}],["hand above the lama's girdle and brought away the purse.",{"entites":[]}],["'Be it so--be it so.' The old man nodded his head. 'This is a great and",{"entites":[]}],["terrible world. I never knew there were so many men alive in it.'",{"entites":[]}],["Next morning the priest was in a very bad temper, but the lama was quite",{"entites":[]}],["happy; and Kim had enjoyed a most interesting evening with the old man,",{"entites":[[11,14,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"]]}],["who brought out his cavalry sabre and, balancing it on his dry knees,",{"entites":[]}],["told tales of the Mutiny and young captains thirty years in their",{"entites":[]}],["graves, till Kim dropped off to sleep.",{"entites":[[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"]]}],["'Certainly the air of this country is good,' said the lama. 'I sleep",{"entites":[]}],["lightly, as do all old men; but last night I slept unwaking till broad",{"entites":[]}],["day. Even now I am heavy.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Drink a draught of hot milk,' said Kim, who had carried not a few such",{"entites":[[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"]]}],["remedies to opium-smokers of his acquaintance. 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He had wasted some opium on",{"entites":[]}],["a man who carried no money.",{"entites":[]}],["'That is well spoken. I am not much used to holy men, but respect is",{"entites":[]}],["always good. There is no respect in these days--not even when a",{"entites":[]}],["Commissioner Sahib comes to see me. But why should one whose Star leads",{"entites":[[13,18,"PERSON"],[13,18,"PERSON"],[13,18,"PERSON"]]}],["him to war follow a holy man?'",{"entites":[]}],["'But he is a holy man,' said Kim earnestly. 'In truth, and in talk and",{"entites":[[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"]]}],["in act, holy. He is not like the others. I have never seen such an one.",{"entites":[]}],["We be not fortune-tellers, or jugglers, or beggars.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Thou art not, that I can see; but I do not know that other. He marches",{"entites":[]}],["well, though.'",{"entites":[]}],["The first freshness of the day carried the lama forward with long, easy,",{"entites":[]}],["camel-like strides. He was deep in meditation, mechanically clicking his",{"entites":[]}],["rosary.",{"entites":[]}],["They followed the rutted and worn country road that wound across the",{"entites":[]}],["flat between the great dark-green mango-groves, the line of the",{"entites":[]}],["snow-capped Himalayas faint to the eastward. All India was at work in",{"entites":[[12,21,"LOC"],[49,54,"LOC"],[49,54,"LOC"],[12,21,"LOC"],[12,21,"LOC"],[49,54,"LOC"]]}],["the fields, to the creaking of well-wheels, the shouting of ploughmen",{"entites":[]}],["behind their cattle, and the clamour of the crows. Even the pony felt",{"entites":[]}],["the good influence and almost broke into a trot as Kim laid a hand on",{"entites":[[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"]]}],["the stirrup-leather.",{"entites":[]}],["'It repents me that I did not give a rupee to the shrine,' said the lama",{"entites":[]}],["on the last bead of his eighty-one.",{"entites":[]}],["The old soldier growled in his beard, so that the lama for the first",{"entites":[]}],["time was aware of him.",{"entites":[]}],["'Seekest thou the River also?' said he, turning.",{"entites":[]}],["'The day is new,' was the reply. 'What need of a river save to water at",{"entites":[]}],["before sundown? I come to show thee a short lane to the Big Road.'",{"entites":[[56,64,"LOC"],[56,64,"LOC"],[56,64,"LOC"]]}],["'That is a courtesy to be remembered, O man of good will; but why the",{"entites":[]}],["sword?'",{"entites":[]}],["The old soldier looked as abashed as a child interrupted in his game of",{"entites":[]}],["make-believe.",{"entites":[]}],["'The sword,' he said, fumbling it. 'Oh, that was a fancy of mine--an",{"entites":[]}],["old man's fancy. Truly the police orders are that no man must bear",{"entites":[]}],["weapons throughout Hind, but'--he cheered up and slapped the hilt--'all",{"entites":[[19,23,"LOC"],[19,23,"LOC"],[19,23,"LOC"]]}],["the constabeels hereabout know me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is not a good fancy,' said the lama. 'What profit to kill men?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Very little--as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it",{"entites":[]}],["would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers. I do not speak",{"entites":[]}],["without knowledge who have seen the land from Delhi south awash with",{"entites":[[46,51,"LOC"],[46,51,"LOC"],[46,51,"LOC"]]}],["blood.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What madness was that, then?'",{"entites":[]}],["'The Gods, who sent it for a plague, alone know. A madness ate into all",{"entites":[]}],["the Army, and they turned against their officers. That was the first",{"entites":[]}],["evil, but not past remedy if they had then held their hands. But they",{"entites":[]}],["chose to kill the Sahibs' wives and children. Then came the Sahibs from",{"entites":[]}],["over the sea and called them to most strict account.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Some such rumour, I believe, reached me once long ago. They called it",{"entites":[]}],["the Black Year, as I remember.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What manner of life hast thou led, not to know The Year? A rumour",{"entites":[]}],["indeed! All earth knew, and trembled.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Our earth never shook but once--upon the day that the Excellent One",{"entites":[]}],["received Enlightenment.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Umph! I saw Delhi shake at least; and Delhi is the navel of the world.'",{"entites":[[13,18,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"],[13,18,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"],[13,18,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"]]}],["'So they turned against women and children? That was a bad deed, for",{"entites":[]}],["which the punishment cannot be avoided.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Many strove to do so, but with very small profit. I was then in a",{"entites":[]}],["regiment of cavalry. It broke. Of six hundred and eighty sabres stood",{"entites":[]}],["fast to their salt--how many think you? Three. Of whom I was one.'",{"entites":[]}],["[Illustration: He sat long-legged on the little beast, with the big",{"entites":[]}],["sword at his side--hand dropped on the pommel--staring fiercely ever the",{"entites":[]}],["flat Lands. . .]",{"entites":[]}],["'The greater merit.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Merit! We did not consider it merit in those days. My people, my",{"entites":[]}],["friends, my brothers fell from me. They said: \"The time of the English",{"entites":[[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"]]}],["is accomplished. Let each strike out a little holding for himself.\" But",{"entites":[]}],["I had talked with the men of Sobraon, of Chillianwallah, of Moodkee and",{"entites":[[60,67,"LOC"],[41,55,"LOC"],[29,36,"LOC"],[60,67,"LOC"],[29,36,"LOC"],[60,67,"LOC"],[29,36,"LOC"],[41,55,"LOC"],[41,55,"LOC"]]}],["Ferozeshah. I said: \"Abide a little and the wind turns. 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In nineteen pitched battles was I; in six-and-forty",{"entites":[]}],["skirmishes of horse; and in small affairs without number. Nine wounds I",{"entites":[]}],["bear; a medal and four clasps and the medal of an Order, for my captains",{"entites":[]}],["who are now generals, remembered me when the Kaiser-i-Hind had",{"entites":[[45,58,"PERSON"],[45,58,"PERSON"],[45,58,"PERSON"]]}],["accomplished fifty years of her reign, and all the land rejoiced. They",{"entites":[]}],["said: \"Give him the order of Berittish India.\" I carry it upon my neck",{"entites":[[39,44,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"]]}],["now. I have also my jaghir (holding) from the hands of the State--a free",{"entites":[]}],["gift to me and mine. The men of the old days--they are now",{"entites":[]}],["Commissioners--come riding to me through the crops,--high upon horses so",{"entites":[]}],["that all the village sees,--and we talk out the old skirmishes, one",{"entites":[]}],["dead man's name leading to another.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And after?' said the lama.",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, afterwards they go away, but not before my village has seen.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And at the last what wilt thou do?'",{"entites":[]}],["'At the last I shall die.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And after?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Let the Gods order it. I have never pestered Them with prayers: I do",{"entites":[]}],["not think they will pester me. Look you, I have noticed in my long life",{"entites":[]}],["that those who eternally break in upon Those Above with complaints and",{"entites":[]}],["reports and bellowings and weepings are presently sent for in haste, as",{"entites":[]}],["our colonel used to send for slack-jawed down-country men who talked too",{"entites":[]}],["much. No, I have never wearied the Gods. They will remember this, and",{"entites":[]}],["give me a quiet place where I can drive my lance in the shade, and wait",{"entites":[]}],["to welcome my sons: I have no less than three--ressaldar-majors all--in",{"entites":[]}],["the regiments.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And they likewise, bound upon the Wheel, go forth from life to",{"entites":[]}],["life--from despair to despair,' said the lama below his breath, 'hot,",{"entites":[]}],["uneasy, snatching.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay,' the old soldier chuckled. 'Three ressaldar-majors in three",{"entites":[]}],["regiments. Gamblers a little, but so am I. They must be well mounted;",{"entites":[]}],["and one cannot take the horses as in the old days one took women. Well,",{"entites":[]}],["well, my holding can pay for all. How thinkest thou? It is a",{"entites":[]}],["well-watered strip, but my men cheat me. I do not know how to ask save",{"entites":[]}],["at the lance's point. Ugh! I grow angry and I curse them, and they feign",{"entites":[]}],["penitence, but behind my back I know they call me a toothless old ape.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Hast thou never desired any other thing?'",{"entites":[]}],["Yes--yes--a thousand times! A straight back and a close-clinging knee",{"entites":[]}],["once more; a quick wrist and a keen eye; and the marrow that makes a",{"entites":[]}],["man. Oh, the old days--the good days of my strength!'",{"entites":[]}],["'That strength is weakness.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It has turned so; but fifty years since I could have proved it",{"entites":[]}],["otherwise,' the old soldier retorted, driving his stirrup-edge into the",{"entites":[]}],["pony's lean flank.",{"entites":[]}],["'But I know a River of great healing.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have drunk Gunga-water to the edge of dropsy. All she gave me was a",{"entites":[]}],["flux, and no sort of strength.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is not Gunga. The River that I know washes from all taint of sin.",{"entites":[]}],["Ascending the far bank one is assured of Freedom. I do not know thy",{"entites":[]}],["life, but thy face is the face of the honourable and courteous. Thou",{"entites":[]}],["hast clung to thy Way, rendering fidelity when it was hard to give, in",{"entites":[]}],["that Black Year of which I now remember other tales. Enter now upon the",{"entites":[]}],["Middle Way, which is the path to Freedom. Hear the Most Excellent Law,",{"entites":[[0,10,"LOC"]]}],["and do not follow dreams.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Speak then, old man,' the soldier smiled, half saluting. 'We be all",{"entites":[]}],["babblers at our age.'",{"entites":[]}],["The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played",{"entites":[]}],["checkerwise over his face; the soldier sat stiffly on the pony; and Kim,",{"entites":[[68,71,"PERSON"],[68,71,"PERSON"],[68,71,"PERSON"]]}],["making sure that there were no snakes, lay down in the crotch of the",{"entites":[]}],["twisted roots.",{"entites":[]}],["There was a drowsy buzz of small life in hot sunshine, a cooing of",{"entites":[]}],["doves, and a sleepy drone of well-wheels across the fields. Slowly and",{"entites":[]}],["impressively the lama began. At the end of ten minutes the old soldier",{"entites":[]}],["slid from his pony, to hear better as he said, and sat with the reins",{"entites":[]}],["round his wrist. The lama's voice faltered--the periods lengthened. Kim",{"entites":[[68,71,"PERSON"],[68,71,"PERSON"],[68,71,"PERSON"]]}],["was busy watching a gray squirrel. When the little scolding bunch of",{"entites":[]}],["fur, close pressed to the branch, disappeared, preacher and audience",{"entites":[]}],["were fast asleep, the old officer's strong-cut head pillowed on his arm,",{"entites":[]}],["the lama's thrown back against the tree hole, where it showed like",{"entites":[]}],["yellow ivory. A naked child toddled up, stared, and, moved by some quick",{"entites":[]}],["impulse of reverence made a solemn little obeisance before the",{"entites":[]}],["lama--only the child was so short and fat that it toppled over sideways,",{"entites":[]}],["and Kim laughed at the sprawling, chubby legs. The child, scared and",{"entites":[[4,7,"PERSON"],[4,7,"PERSON"],[4,7,"PERSON"]]}],["indignant, yelled aloud.",{"entites":[]}],["'Hai! Hai!' said the soldier leaping to his feet. 'What is it? What",{"entites":[[1,4,"PERSON"],[1,4,"PERSON"],[6,9,"PERSON"],[6,9,"PERSON"],[6,9,"PERSON"]]}],["orders? . . . It is . . . a child! I dreamed it was an alarm. Little",{"entites":[]}],["one--little one--do not cry. Have I slept? That was discourteous",{"entites":[]}],["indeed!'",{"entites":[]}],["'I fear! I am afraid!' roared the child.",{"entites":[]}],["'What is it to fear? Two old men and a boy? How wilt thou ever make a",{"entites":[]}],["soldier, Princeling?'",{"entites":[[9,19,"PERSON"],[9,19,"PERSON"],[9,19,"PERSON"]]}],["The lama had waked too, but, taking no direct notice of the child,",{"entites":[]}],["clicked his rosary.",{"entites":[]}],["'What is that?' said the child, stopping a yell midway. 'I have never",{"entites":[]}],["seen such things. Give them me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Aha,' said the lama, smiling, and trailing a loop of it on the grass:",{"entites":[]}],["          'This is a handful of cardamoms,",{"entites":[]}],["            This is a lump of ghi:",{"entites":[]}],["          This is millet and chillies and rice,",{"entites":[]}],["            A supper for thee and me!'",{"entites":[]}],["The child shrieked with joy, and snatched at the dark, glancing beads.",{"entites":[]}],["'Oho!' said the old soldier. 'Whence had thou that song, despiser of",{"entites":[]}],["this world?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I learned it in Pathankot--sitting on a door-step,' said the lama",{"entites":[[17,26,"LOC"],[17,26,"LOC"],[17,26,"LOC"]]}],["shyly. 'It is good to be kind to babes.'",{"entites":[]}],["'As I remember, before the sleep came on us, thou hadst told me that",{"entites":[]}],["marriage and bearing were darkeners of the true light, stumbling-blocks",{"entites":[]}],["upon the way. Do children drop from heaven in thy country? 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What harm do thy Gods suffer from play with a babe? And that",{"entites":[]}],["song was very well sung. Let us go on and I will sing thee the song of",{"entites":[]}],["Nikal Seyn before Delhi--the old song.'",{"entites":[[0,10,"LOC"],[18,23,"LOC"],[0,10,"LOC"],[18,23,"LOC"],[0,10,"LOC"],[18,23,"LOC"]]}],["And they fared out from the gloom of the mango tope, the old man's high,",{"entites":[]}],["shrill voice ringing across the field, as wail by long-drawn wail he",{"entites":[]}],["unfolded the story of Nikal Seyn (Nicholson)--the song that men sing in",{"entites":[[34,43,"PERSON"],[22,32,"PERSON"],[34,43,"PERSON"],[22,32,"PERSON"],[34,43,"PERSON"],[22,32,"PERSON"]]}],["the Punjab to this day. Kim was delighted, and the lama listened with",{"entites":[[4,10,"LOC"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[4,10,"LOC"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[4,10,"LOC"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["deep interest.",{"entites":[]}],["'Ahi! Nikal Seyn is dead--he died before Delhi! Lances of North take",{"entites":[[6,16,"PERSON"],[6,16,"PERSON"],[6,16,"PERSON"]]}],["vengeance for Nikal Seyn.' He quavered it out to the end, marking the",{"entites":[[14,24,"PERSON"],[14,24,"PERSON"],[14,24,"PERSON"]]}],["trills with the flat of his sword on the pony's rump.",{"entites":[]}],["'And now we come to the Big Road,' said he, after receiving the",{"entites":[[24,32,"LOC"],[24,32,"LOC"],[24,32,"LOC"]]}],["compliments of Kim; for the lama was markedly silent. 'It is long since",{"entites":[[15,18,"PERSON"],[15,18,"PERSON"],[15,18,"PERSON"]]}],["I have ridden this way, but thy boy's talk stirred me. See, Holy",{"entites":[]}],["One--the Great Road which is the backbone of all Hind. For the most part",{"entites":[[49,53,"LOC"],[9,19,"LOC"],[49,53,"LOC"],[9,19,"LOC"],[49,53,"LOC"],[9,19,"LOC"]]}],["it is shaded, as here, with four lines of trees; the middle road--all",{"entites":[]}],["hard--takes the quick traffic. In the days before rail-carriages the",{"entites":[]}],["Sahibs travelled up and down here in hundreds. Now there are only",{"entites":[]}],["country-carts and such like. Left and right is the rougher road for the",{"entites":[]}],["heavy carts--grain and cotton and timber, bhoosa, lime and hides. A man",{"entites":[]}],["goes in safety here--for at every few kos is a police-station. The",{"entites":[]}],["police are thieves and extortioners (I myself would patrol it with",{"entites":[]}],["cavalry--young recruits under a strong captain), but at least they do",{"entites":[]}],["not suffer any rivals. All castes and kinds of men move here. Look!",{"entites":[]}],["Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims",{"entites":[]}],["and potters--all the world going and coming. It is to me as a river from",{"entites":[]}],["which I am withdrawn like a log after a flood.'",{"entites":[]}],["And truly the Grand Trunk Road is a wonderful spectacle. It runs",{"entites":[[14,30,"LOC"],[14,30,"LOC"],[14,30,"LOC"]]}],["straight, bearing without crowding India's traffic for fifteen hundred",{"entites":[[35,40,"LOC"],[35,40,"LOC"],[35,40,"LOC"]]}],["miles--such a river of life as nowhere else exists in the world. They",{"entites":[]}],["looked at the green-arched, shade-flecked length of it, the white",{"entites":[]}],["breadth speckled with slow-pacing folk; and the two-roomed",{"entites":[]}],["police-station opposite.",{"entites":[]}],["'Who bears arms against the law?' a constable called out laughingly, as",{"entites":[]}],["he caught sight of the soldier's sword, 'Are not the police enough to",{"entites":[]}],["destroy evil-doers?'",{"entites":[]}],["'It was because of the police I bought it,' was the answer. 'Does all go",{"entites":[]}],["well in Hind?'",{"entites":[[8,12,"LOC"],[8,12,"LOC"],[8,12,"LOC"]]}],["'Ressaldar Sahib, all goes well.'",{"entites":[[1,16,"PERSON"],[1,16,"PERSON"],[1,16,"PERSON"]]}],["'I am like an old tortoise, look you, who puts his head out from the",{"entites":[]}],["bank and draws it in again. Ay, this is the road of Hindustan. All men",{"entites":[[52,61,"LOC"],[52,61,"LOC"],[52,61,"LOC"]]}],["come by this way. . . .'",{"entites":[]}],["'Son of a swine, is the soft part of the road meant for thee to scratch",{"entites":[]}],["thy back upon? Father of all the daughters of shame and husband of ten",{"entites":[]}],["thousand virtueless ones, thy mother was devoted to a devil, being led",{"entites":[]}],["thereto by her mother; thy aunts have never had a nose for seven",{"entites":[]}],["generations! Thy sister--What owl's folly told thee to draw thy carts",{"entites":[]}],["across the road? A broken wheel? Then take a broken head and put the two",{"entites":[]}],["together at leisure!'",{"entites":[]}],["The voice and a venomous whip-cracking came out of a pillar of dust",{"entites":[]}],["fifty yards away, where a cart had broken down. A thin, high Kattiwar",{"entites":[]}],["mare, with eyes and nostrils aflame, rocketed out of the jam, snorting",{"entites":[]}],["and wincing as her rider bent her across the road in chase of a shouting",{"entites":[]}],["man. He was tall and gray-bearded, sitting the almost mad beast as a",{"entites":[]}],["piece of her, and scientifically lashing his victim between plunges.",{"entites":[]}],["The old man's face lit with pride. 'My child!' said he briefly, and",{"entites":[]}],["strove to rein the pony's neck to a fitting arch.",{"entites":[]}],["'Am I to be beaten before the police?' cried the carter. 'Justice! I",{"entites":[]}],["will have Justice--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Am I to be blocked by a shouting ape who upsets ten thousand sacks",{"entites":[]}],["under a young horse's nose? That is the way to ruin a mare.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He speaks truth. He speaks truth. But she follows her man close,' said",{"entites":[]}],["the old man. The carter ran under the wheels of his cart and thence",{"entites":[]}],["threatened all sorts of vengeance.",{"entites":[]}],["'They are strong men, thy sons,' said the policeman serenely, picking",{"entites":[]}],["his teeth.",{"entites":[]}],["The horseman delivered one last vicious cut with his whip and came on at",{"entites":[]}],["a canter.",{"entites":[]}],["'My father!' He reined back ten yards and dismounted.",{"entites":[]}],["The old man was off his pony in an instant, and they embraced as do",{"entites":[]}],["father and son in the East.",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER IV",{"entites":[]}],["          Good Luck, she is never a lady,",{"entites":[]}],["          But the cursedest quean alive.",{"entites":[]}],["          Tricksy, wincing, and jady--",{"entites":[[10,17,"PERSON"],[10,17,"PERSON"],[10,17,"PERSON"]]}],["          Kittle to lead or drive.",{"entites":[[10,16,"PERSON"],[10,16,"PERSON"],[10,16,"PERSON"]]}],["          Greet her--she's hailing a stranger!",{"entites":[]}],["          Meet her--she's busking to leave!",{"entites":[]}],["          Let her alone for a shrew to the bone",{"entites":[]}],["          And the hussy comes plucking your sleeve!",{"entites":[]}],["            Largesse! Largesse, O Fortune!",{"entites":[]}],["            Give or hold at your will",{"entites":[]}],["            If I've no care for Fortune,",{"entites":[]}],["            Fortune must follow me still!",{"entites":[]}],["                                'The Wishing Caps.'",{"entites":[]}],["THEN, lowering their voices, they spoke together. Kim came to rest under",{"entites":[[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"]]}],["a tree, but the lama tugged impatiently at his elbow.",{"entites":[]}],["'Let us go on. The River is not here.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Hai mai? Have we not walked enough for a little? Our River will not run",{"entites":[[1,8,"PERSON"],[1,8,"PERSON"]]}],["away. Patience, and he will give us a dole.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That,' said the old soldier suddenly, 'is the Friend of the Stars. He",{"entites":[]}],["brought me the news yesterday. Having seen the very man Himself, in a",{"entites":[]}],["vision, giving orders for the war.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Hm!' said his son, all deep in his broad chest. 'He came by a",{"entites":[]}],["bazar-rumour and made profit of it.'",{"entites":[]}],["His father laughed. 'At least he did not ride to me begging for a new",{"entites":[]}],["charger and the gods know how many rupees. Are thy brothers' regiments",{"entites":[]}],["also under orders?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I do not know. I took leave and came swiftly to thee in case--'",{"entites":[]}],["'In case they ran before thee to beg. O gamblers and spendthrifts all!",{"entites":[]}],["But thou hast never yet ridden in a charge. A good horse is needed",{"entites":[]}],["there, truly. A good follower and a good pony also for the marching. Let",{"entites":[]}],["us see--let us see.' He thrummed on the pommel.",{"entites":[]}],["'This is no place to cast accounts in, my father. Let us go to thy",{"entites":[]}],["house.'",{"entites":[]}],["'At least pay the boy then: I have no pice with me, and he brought",{"entites":[]}],["auspicious news. Ho! Friend of all the World, a war is toward as thou",{"entites":[[17,19,"PERSON"],[17,19,"PERSON"],[17,19,"PERSON"]]}],["hast said.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay, as I know, the war,' returned Kim composedly.",{"entites":[[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"]]}],["'Eh?' said the lama, fingering his beads, all eager for the road.",{"entites":[]}],["'My master does not trouble the Stars for hire. We brought the",{"entites":[]}],["news--bear witness we brought the news, and now we go.' Kim half-crooked",{"entites":[[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"]]}],["his hand at his side.",{"entites":[]}],["The son tossed a silver coin through the sunlight, grumbling something",{"entites":[]}],["about beggars and jugglers. It was a four-anna piece, and would feed",{"entites":[]}],["them well for some days. The lama, seeing the flash of the metal, droned",{"entites":[]}],["a blessing.",{"entites":[]}],["'Go thy way, Friend of all the World,' piped the old soldier, wheeling",{"entites":[]}],["his scrawny mount. 'For once in all my days I have met a true",{"entites":[]}],["prophet--who was not in the Army.'",{"entites":[]}],["Father and son swung round together: the old man sitting as erect as the",{"entites":[]}],["younger.",{"entites":[]}],["A Punjabi constable in yellow linen trousers slouched across the road.",{"entites":[]}],["He had seen the money pass.",{"entites":[]}],["'Halt!' he cried in impressive English. 'Know ye not that there is a",{"entites":[[31,38,"LOC"],[31,38,"LOC"],[31,38,"LOC"]]}],["takkus of two annas a head, which is four annas, on those who enter the",{"entites":[]}],["road from this side-road. It is the order of the Sirkar, and the money",{"entites":[]}],["is spent for the planting of trees and the beautification of the ways.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And the bellies of the police,' said Kim, skipping out of arm's reach.",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["'Consider for a while, man with a mud head. Think you we came from the",{"entites":[]}],["nearest pond like the frog, thy father-in-law. Hast thou ever heard the",{"entites":[[47,51,"PERSON"],[47,51,"PERSON"]]}],["name of thy brother?'",{"entites":[]}],["'And who was he? Leave the boy alone,' cried a senior constable,",{"entites":[]}],["immensely delighted, as he squatted down to smoke his pipe in the",{"entites":[]}],["veranda.",{"entites":[]}],["'He took a label from a bottle of belaitee-pani (soda-water), and,",{"entites":[]}],["affixing it to a bridge, collected taxes for a month from those who",{"entites":[]}],["passed, saying that it was the Sirkar's order. Then came an Englishman",{"entites":[[60,70,"LOC"],[31,37,"PERSON"],[31,37,"PERSON"],[60,70,"LOC"],[60,70,"LOC"],[31,37,"PERSON"]]}],["and broke his head. Ah, brother, I am a town-crow, not a village-crow!'",{"entites":[]}],["The policeman drew back abashed, and Kim hooted at him all down the",{"entites":[[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"]]}],["road.",{"entites":[]}],["'Was there ever such a disciple as I?' he cried merrily to the lama.",{"entites":[]}],["'All earth would have picked thy bones within ten mile of Lahore city if",{"entites":[[58,64,"LOC"],[58,64,"LOC"],[58,64,"LOC"]]}],["I had not guarded thee.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or",{"entites":[]}],["sometimes an evil imp,' said the lama, smiling slowly.",{"entites":[]}],["'I am thy chela.' Kim dropped into step at his side--that indescribable",{"entites":[[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"]]}],["gait of the long-distance tramp all the world over.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now let us walk,' muttered the lama, and to the click of his rosary",{"entites":[]}],["they walked in silence mile upon mile. The lama, as usual, was deep in",{"entites":[]}],["meditation, but Kim's bright eyes were open wide. This broad, smiling",{"entites":[[16,19,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"]]}],["river of life, he considered, was a vast improvement on the cramped and",{"entites":[]}],["crowded Lahore streets. There were new people and new sights at every",{"entites":[[8,14,"LOC"],[8,14,"LOC"],[8,14,"LOC"]]}],["stride--castes he knew and castes that were altogether out of his",{"entites":[]}],["experience.",{"entites":[]}],["They met a troop of long-haired, strong-scented Sansis with baskets of",{"entites":[]}],["lizards and other unclean food on their backs, their lean dogs sniffing",{"entites":[]}],["at their heels. These people kept their own side of the road, moving at",{"entites":[]}],["a quick, furtive jog-trot, and all other castes gave them ample room;",{"entites":[]}],["for the Sansi is deep pollution. Behind them, walking wide and stiffly",{"entites":[[8,13,"LOC"],[8,13,"LOC"],[8,13,"LOC"]]}],["across the strong shadows, the memory of his leg-irons still on him,",{"entites":[]}],["strode one newly released from the jail; his full stomach and shiny skin",{"entites":[]}],["to prove that the Government fed its prisoners better than most honest",{"entites":[]}],["men could feed themselves. Kim knew that walk well, and made broad jest",{"entites":[[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"]]}],["of it as they passed. Then an Akali, a wild-eyed, wild-haired Sikh",{"entites":[]}],["devotee in the blue-checked clothes of his faith, with polished-steel",{"entites":[]}],["quoits glistening on the cone of his tall blue turban, stalked past,",{"entites":[]}],["returning from a visit to one of the independent Sikh States, where he",{"entites":[[54,60,"LOC"],[54,60,"LOC"],[54,60,"LOC"]]}],["had been singing the ancient glories of the Khalsa to College-trained",{"entites":[[44,50,"PERSON"],[54,69,"LOC"],[54,69,"LOC"],[54,69,"LOC"],[44,50,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"]]}],["princelings in top-boots and white-cord breeches. Kim was careful not to",{"entites":[[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"]]}],["irritate that man; for the Akali's temper is short and his arm quick.",{"entites":[]}],["Here and there they met or were overtaken by the gaily dressed crowds of",{"entites":[]}],["whole villages turning out to some local fair; the women, with their",{"entites":[]}],["babes on their hips, walking behind the men, the older boys prancing on",{"entites":[]}],["sticks of sugar-cane, dragging rude brass models of locomotives such as",{"entites":[]}],["they sell for a halfpenny, or flashing the sun into the eyes of their",{"entites":[]}],["betters from cheap toy mirrors. One could see at a glance what each had",{"entites":[]}],["bought; and if there were any doubt it needed only to watch the wives",{"entites":[]}],["comparing, brown arm against brown arm, the newly purchased dull glass",{"entites":[]}],["bracelets that come from the North-West. These merry-makers stepped",{"entites":[]}],["slowly, calling one to the other and stopping to haggle with",{"entites":[]}],["sweetmeat-sellers, or to make a prayer before one of the wayside",{"entites":[]}],["shrines--sometimes Hindu, sometimes Mussalman--which the low caste of",{"entites":[]}],["both creeds share with beautiful impartiality. A solid line of blue,",{"entites":[]}],["rising and falling like the back of a caterpillar in haste, would swing",{"entites":[]}],["up through the quivering dust and trot past to a chorus of quick",{"entites":[]}],["cackling. That was a gang of changars--the women who have taken all the",{"entites":[]}],["embankments of all the Northern railways under their charge--a",{"entites":[]}],["flat-footed, big-bosomed, strong-limbed, blue-petticoated clan of",{"entites":[]}],["earth-carriers, hurrying north on news of a job, and wasting no time by",{"entites":[]}],["the road. They belong to the caste whose men do not count, and they",{"entites":[]}],["walked with squared elbows, swinging hips, and heads on high, as suits",{"entites":[]}],["women who carry heavy weights. A little later a marriage procession",{"entites":[]}],["would strike into the Grand Trunk with music and shoutings, and a smell",{"entites":[]}],["of marigold and jasmine stronger even than the reek of the dust. One",{"entites":[]}],["could see the bride's litter, a blur of red and tinsel, staggering",{"entites":[]}],["through the haze, while the bridegroom's bewreathed pony turned aside to",{"entites":[]}],["snatch a mouthful from a passing fodder-cart. Then Kim would join the",{"entites":[[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"]]}],["Kentish-fire of good wishes and bad jokes, wishing the couple a hundred",{"entites":[]}],["sons and no daughters, as the saying is. Still more interesting and",{"entites":[]}],["more to be shouted over it was when a strolling juggler with some",{"entites":[]}],["half-trained monkeys, or a panting, feeble bear, or a woman who tied",{"entites":[]}],["goats' horns to her feet, and with these danced on a slack-rope, set the",{"entites":[]}],["horses to shying and the women to shrill, long-drawn quavers of",{"entites":[]}],["amazement.",{"entites":[]}],["The lama never raised his eyes. He did not note the money-lender on his",{"entites":[]}],["goose-rumped pony, hastening along to collect the cruel interest; or the",{"entites":[]}],["long-shouting, deep-voiced little mob--still in military formation--of",{"entites":[]}],["native soldiers on leave, rejoicing to be rid of their breeches and",{"entites":[]}],["puttees, and saying the most outrageous things to the most respectable",{"entites":[]}],["women in sight. Even the seller of Ganges-water he did not see, and Kim",{"entites":[[68,71,"PERSON"],[68,71,"PERSON"],[68,71,"PERSON"]]}],["expected that he would at least buy a bottle of that precious stuff. He",{"entites":[]}],["looked steadily at the ground, and strode as steadily hour after hour,",{"entites":[]}],["his soul busied elsewhere. But Kim was in the seventh heaven of joy. The",{"entites":[[31,34,"PERSON"],[31,34,"PERSON"],[31,34,"PERSON"]]}],["Grand Trunk at this point was built on an embankment to guard against",{"entites":[]}],["winter floods from the foothills, so that one walked, as it were, a",{"entites":[]}],["little above the country, along a stately corridor, seeing all India",{"entites":[[63,68,"LOC"],[63,68,"LOC"],[63,68,"LOC"]]}],["spread out to left and right. It was beautiful to behold the many-yoked",{"entites":[]}],["grain and cotton waggons crawling over the country-roads: one could hear",{"entites":[]}],["their axles, complaining a mile away, coming nearer, till with shouts",{"entites":[]}],["and yells and bad words they climbed up the steep incline and plunged on",{"entites":[]}],["to the hard main road, carter reviling carter. It was equally beautiful",{"entites":[]}],["to watch the people, little clumps of red and blue and pink and white",{"entites":[]}],["and saffron, turning aside to go to their own villages, dispersing and",{"entites":[]}],["growing small by twos and threes across the level plain. Kim felt these",{"entites":[[57,60,"PERSON"],[57,60,"PERSON"],[57,60,"PERSON"]]}],["things, though he could not give tongue to his feelings, and so",{"entites":[]}],["contented himself with buying peeled sugar-cane and spitting the pith",{"entites":[]}],["generously about his path. From time to time the lama took snuff, and at",{"entites":[]}],["last Kim could endure the silence no longer.",{"entites":[[5,8,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"]]}],["'This is a good land--the land of the South!' said he. 'The air is good;",{"entites":[]}],["the water is good. Eh?'",{"entites":[]}],["'And they are all bound upon the Wheel,' said the lama. 'Bound from life",{"entites":[]}],["after life. To none of these has the Way been shown.' He shook himself",{"entites":[]}],["back to this world.",{"entites":[]}],["'And now we have walked a weary way,' said Kim. 'Surely we shall soon",{"entites":[[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"]]}],["come to a parao (a resting-place). Shall we stay there? Look, the sun is",{"entites":[]}],["sloping.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Who will receive us this evening?'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is all one. This country is full of good folk. Besides,'--he sunk",{"entites":[]}],["his voice beneath a whisper,--'we have money.'",{"entites":[]}],["The crowd thickened as they neared the resting-place which marked the",{"entites":[]}],["end of their day's journey. A line of stalls selling very simple food",{"entites":[]}],["and tobacco, a stack of firewood, a police-station, a well, a",{"entites":[]}],["horse-trough, a few trees, and, under them, some trampled ground dotted",{"entites":[]}],["with the black ashes of old fires, are all that mark a parao on the",{"entites":[]}],["Grand Trunk; if you except the beggars and the crows--both hungry.",{"entites":[]}],["By this time the sun was driving broad golden spokes through the lower",{"entites":[]}],["branches of the mango trees; the parakeets and doves were coming home in",{"entites":[]}],["their hundreds; the chattering, gray-backed Seven Sisters, talking over",{"entites":[]}],["the day's adventures, walked back and forth in twos and threes almost",{"entites":[]}],["under the feet of the travellers; and shufflings and scufflings in the",{"entites":[]}],["branches showed that the bats were ready to go out on the night-picket.",{"entites":[]}],["Swiftly the light gathered itself together, painted for an instant the",{"entites":[]}],["faces and the cart-wheels and the bullocks' horns as red as blood. Then",{"entites":[]}],["the night fell, changing the touch of the air, drawing a low, even haze,",{"entites":[]}],["like a gossamer veil of blue, across the face of the country, and",{"entites":[]}],["bringing out, keen and distinct, the smell of wood-smoke and cattle and",{"entites":[]}],["the good scent of wheaten cakes cooked on ashes. The evening patrol",{"entites":[]}],["hurried out of the police-station with important coughings and",{"entites":[]}],["reiterated orders; and a live charcoal ball in the cup of a wayside",{"entites":[]}],["carter's hookah glowed red while Kim's eye mechanically watched the last",{"entites":[[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"]]}],["flicker of the sun on the brass tweezers.",{"entites":[]}],["[Illustration: The Lama and Kim walked a little to one side; Kim chewing",{"entites":[[61,64,"PERSON"],[61,64,"PERSON"],[61,64,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"]]}],["his stick of sugar-cane, and making way for no one under the status of a",{"entites":[]}],["priest.]",{"entites":[]}],["The life of the parao was very like that of the Kashmir Serai on a small",{"entites":[[48,61,"LOC"],[48,61,"LOC"],[48,61,"LOC"]]}],["scale. Kim dived into the happy Asiatic disorder which, if you only",{"entites":[[7,10,"PERSON"],[7,10,"PERSON"],[7,10,"PERSON"]]}],["allow time, will bring you everything that a simple man needs.",{"entites":[]}],["His wants were few, because, since the lama had no caste scruples,",{"entites":[]}],["cooked food from the nearest stall would serve; but, for luxury's sake,",{"entites":[]}],["Kim bought a handful of dung-cakes to build a fire. All about, coming",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["and going round the little flames, men cried for oil, or grain, or",{"entites":[]}],["sweetmeats, or tobacco, jostling one another while they waited their",{"entites":[]}],["turn at the well; and under the men's voices you heard from halted,",{"entites":[]}],["shuttered carts the high squeals and giggles of women whose faces should",{"entites":[]}],["not be seen in public.",{"entites":[]}],["Nowadays, well-educated natives are of opinion that when their womenfolk",{"entites":[]}],["travel--and they visit a good deal--it is better to take them quickly by",{"entites":[]}],["rail in a properly screened compartment; and that custom is spreading.",{"entites":[]}],["But there are always those of the old rock who hold by the use of their",{"entites":[]}],["forefathers; and, above all, there are always the old women,--more",{"entites":[]}],["conservative than the men,--who toward the end of their days go a",{"entites":[]}],["pilgrimage. They, being withered and undesirable, do not, under certain",{"entites":[]}],["circumstances, object to unveiling. After their long seclusion, during",{"entites":[]}],["which they have always been in business touch with a thousand outside",{"entites":[]}],["interests, they love the bustle and stir of the open road, the",{"entites":[]}],["gatherings at the shrines, and the infinite possibilities of gossip with",{"entites":[]}],["like-minded dowagers. Very often it suits a long-suffering family that a",{"entites":[]}],["strong-tongued, iron-willed old lady should disport herself about India",{"entites":[[66,71,"LOC"],[66,71,"LOC"],[66,71,"LOC"]]}],["in this fashion; for certainly pilgrimage is grateful to the Gods. So",{"entites":[]}],["all about India, in the most remote places, as in the most public, you",{"entites":[[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"]]}],["find some knot of grizzled servitors in nominal charge of an old lady",{"entites":[]}],["who is more or less curtained and hid away in a bullock-cart. 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She",{"entites":[]}],["very greatly desires it.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim stifled a laugh in the quilt. When once that imperious old lady had",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["recovered from her natural awe of a lama he thought it probable that she",{"entites":[]}],["would be worth listening to.",{"entites":[]}],["He was nearly asleep when the lama suddenly quoted a proverb: 'The",{"entites":[]}],["husbands of the talkative have a great reward hereafter.' Then Kim heard",{"entites":[[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"]]}],["him snuff thrice, and dozed off, still laughing.",{"entites":[]}],["The diamond-bright dawn woke men and crows and bullocks together. Kim",{"entites":[[66,69,"PERSON"],[66,69,"PERSON"],[66,69,"PERSON"]]}],["sat up and yawned, shook himself, and thrilled with delight. This was",{"entites":[]}],["seeing the world in real truth; this was life as he would have",{"entites":[]}],["it--bustling and shouting, the buckling of belts, and beating of",{"entites":[]}],["bullocks and creaking of wheels, lighting of fires and cooking of food,",{"entites":[]}],["and new sights at every turn of the approving eye. The morning mist",{"entites":[]}],["swept off in a whorl of silver, the parrots shot away to some distant",{"entites":[]}],["river in shrieking green hosts: all the well-wheels within earshot went",{"entites":[]}],["to work. India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it, more awake",{"entites":[[9,14,"LOC"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[9,14,"LOC"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[9,14,"LOC"]]}],["and more excited than any one, chewing on a twig that he would presently",{"entites":[]}],["use as a toothbrush; for he borrowed right- and left-handedly from all",{"entites":[]}],["the customs of the country he knew and loved. There was no need to worry",{"entites":[]}],["about food--no need to spend a cowrie at the crowded stalls. He was the",{"entites":[]}],["disciple of a holy man annexed by a strong-willed old lady. All things",{"entites":[]}],["would be prepared for them, and when they were respectfully invited so",{"entites":[]}],["to do they would sit and eat. For the rest,--Kim giggled here as he",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["cleaned his teeth,--his hostess would rather heighten the enjoyment of",{"entites":[]}],["the road. He inspected her bullocks critically, as they came up grunting",{"entites":[]}],["and blowing under the yokes. If they went too fast--it was not",{"entites":[]}],["likely--there would be a pleasant seat for himself along the pole; the",{"entites":[[61,65,"LOC"],[61,65,"LOC"],[61,65,"LOC"]]}],["lama would sit beside the driver. The escort, of course, would walk. The",{"entites":[]}],["old lady, equally of course, would talk a great deal, and by what he had",{"entites":[]}],["heard that conversation would not lack salt. She was already ordering,",{"entites":[]}],["haranguing, rebuking, and, it must be said, cursing her servants for",{"entites":[]}],["delays.",{"entites":[]}],["'Get her her pipe. In the name of the Gods, get her her pipe and stop",{"entites":[]}],["her ill-omened mouth,' cried an Oorya, tying up his shapeless bundles of",{"entites":[[32,37,"LOC"],[32,37,"LOC"],[32,37,"LOC"]]}],["bedding. 'She and the parrots are alike. They screech in the dawn.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The lead-bullocks! Hai! Look to the lead-bullocks!' They were backing",{"entites":[[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"]]}],["and wheeling as a grain-cart's axle caught them by the horns. 'Son of an",{"entites":[]}],["owl, where dost thou go?' This to the grinning carter.",{"entites":[]}],["'Ai! Yai! Yai! That within there is the Queen of Delhi going to pray",{"entites":[[5,8,"PERSON"],[49,54,"LOC"],[49,54,"LOC"],[10,13,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"],[49,54,"LOC"],[10,13,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"]]}],["for a son,' the man called back over his high load. 'Room for the Queen",{"entites":[]}],["of Delhi and her prime minister the gray monkey climbing up his own",{"entites":[[3,8,"LOC"],[3,8,"LOC"],[3,8,"LOC"]]}],["sword!' Another cart loaded with bark for a down-country tannery",{"entites":[]}],["followed close behind, and its driver added a few compliments as the",{"entites":[]}],["ruth-bullocks backed and backed again.",{"entites":[]}],["From behind the shaking curtains came one volley of invective. It did",{"entites":[]}],["not last long, but in kind and quality, in blistering, biting",{"entites":[]}],["appropriateness, it was beyond anything that even Kim had heard. He",{"entites":[[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"]]}],["could see the carter's bare chest collapse with amazement, as the man",{"entites":[]}],["salaamed reverently to the voice, leaped from the pole, and helped the",{"entites":[[50,54,"LOC"],[50,54,"LOC"],[50,54,"LOC"]]}],["escort haul their volcano on to the main road. Here the voice told him",{"entites":[]}],["truthfully what sort of wife he had wedded, and what she was doing in",{"entites":[]}],["his absence.",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, shabash!' murmured Kim, unable to contain himself, as the man slunk",{"entites":[[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["away.",{"entites":[]}],["'Well done, indeed? It is a shame and a scandal that a poor woman may",{"entites":[]}],["not go to make prayer to her gods except she be jostled and insulted by",{"entites":[]}],["all the refuse of Hindustan--that she must eat gali (abuse) as men eat",{"entites":[[18,27,"LOC"],[18,27,"LOC"],[18,27,"LOC"]]}],["ghi. But I have yet a wag left to my tongue--a word or two well spoken",{"entites":[]}],["that serves the occasion. And still am I without my tobacco! Who is the",{"entites":[]}],["one-eyed and luckless son of shame that has not yet prepared my pipe?'",{"entites":[]}],["It was hastily thrust in by a hillman, and a trickle of thick smoke from",{"entites":[]}],["each corner of the curtains showed that peace was restored.",{"entites":[]}],["If Kim had walked proudly the day before, disciple of a holy man, to-day",{"entites":[[3,6,"PERSON"],[3,6,"PERSON"],[3,6,"PERSON"]]}],["he paced with tenfold pride in the train of a semi-royal procession,",{"entites":[]}],["with a recognised place under the patronage of an old lady of charming",{"entites":[]}],["manners and infinite resource. The escort, their heads tied up native",{"entites":[]}],["fashion, fell in on either side the cart, shuffling enormous clouds of",{"entites":[]}],["dust.",{"entites":[]}],["The lama and Kim walked a little to one side; Kim chewing his stick of",{"entites":[[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"]]}],["sugar-cane, and making way for no one under the status of a priest. They",{"entites":[]}],["could hear the old lady's tongue clack as steadily as a rice-husker. She",{"entites":[]}],["bade the escort tell her what was going on on the road; and so soon as",{"entites":[]}],["they were clear of the parao she flung back the curtains and peered out,",{"entites":[]}],["her veil a third across her face. Her men did not eye her directly when",{"entites":[]}],["she addressed them, and thus the proprieties were more or less observed.",{"entites":[]}],["A dark, sallowish District Superintendent of Police, faultlessly",{"entites":[]}],["uniformed, an Englishman, trotted by on a tired horse, and, seeing from",{"entites":[[14,24,"LOC"],[14,24,"LOC"],[14,24,"LOC"]]}],["her retinue what manner of person she was, chaffed her.",{"entites":[]}],["'O mother,' he cried, 'do they do this in the zenanas? Suppose an",{"entites":[]}],["Englishman came by and saw that thou hadst no nose?'",{"entites":[[0,10,"LOC"],[0,10,"LOC"],[0,10,"LOC"]]}],["'What?' she shrilled back. 'Thy own mother has no nose? Why say so,",{"entites":[]}],["then, on the open road?'",{"entites":[]}],["It was a fair counter. The Englishman threw up his hand with the gesture",{"entites":[[27,37,"LOC"],[27,37,"LOC"],[27,37,"LOC"]]}],["of a man hit at sword-play. She laughed and nodded.",{"entites":[]}],["'Is this a face to tempt virtue aside?' She withdrew all her veil and",{"entites":[]}],["stared at him.",{"entites":[]}],["It was by no means lovely, but as the man gathered up his reins he",{"entites":[]}],["called it a Moon of Paradise, a Disturber of Integrity, and a few other",{"entites":[]}],["fantastic epithets which doubled her up with mirth.",{"entites":[]}],["'That is a nut-cut' (rogue), she said. 'All police-constables are",{"entites":[]}],["nut-cuts; but the police-wallahs are the worst. Hai, my son, thou hast",{"entites":[[48,51,"PERSON"],[48,51,"PERSON"],[48,51,"PERSON"]]}],["never learned all that since thou camest from Belait (Europe). Who",{"entites":[[54,60,"LOC"],[46,52,"LOC"],[54,60,"LOC"],[54,60,"LOC"],[46,52,"LOC"],[46,52,"LOC"]]}],["suckled thee?'",{"entites":[]}],["'A pahareen--a hillwoman of Dalhousie, my mother. Keep thy beauty under",{"entites":[[28,37,"LOC"],[28,37,"LOC"],[28,37,"LOC"]]}],["a shade--O Dispenser of Delights,' and he was gone.",{"entites":[]}],["'These be the sort'--she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her",{"entites":[]}],["mouth with pan. 'These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the",{"entites":[]}],["land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe,",{"entites":[[59,65,"LOC"],[59,65,"LOC"],[59,65,"LOC"]]}],["suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse",{"entites":[]}],["than the pestilence. They do harm to Kings.' Then she told a long, long",{"entites":[]}],["tale to the world at large, of an ignorant young policeman who had",{"entites":[]}],["disturbed some small Hill Rajah, a ninth cousin of her own, in the",{"entites":[[21,31,"PERSON"],[21,31,"PERSON"],[21,31,"PERSON"]]}],["matter of a trivial land-case, winding up with a quotation from a work",{"entites":[]}],["by no means devotional.",{"entites":[]}],["Then her mood changed, and she bade one of the escort ask whether the",{"entites":[]}],["lama would walk alongside and discuss matters of religion. So Kim",{"entites":[[62,65,"PERSON"],[62,65,"PERSON"],[62,65,"PERSON"]]}],["dropped back into the dust and returned to his sugar-cane. For an hour",{"entites":[]}],["or more the lama's tam-o'-shanter showed like a moon through the haze;",{"entites":[]}],["and, from all he heard, Kim gathered that the old woman wept. One of the",{"entites":[[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["Ooryas half apologised for his rudeness overnight, saying that he had",{"entites":[]}],["never known his mistress of so bland a temper, and he ascribed it to the",{"entites":[]}],["presence of the strange priest. Personally, he believed in Brahmins,",{"entites":[]}],["though, like all natives, he was acutely aware of their cunning and",{"entites":[]}],["their greed. Still, when Brahmins but irritated with begging demands the",{"entites":[]}],["mother of his master's wife, and when she sent them away so angry that",{"entites":[]}],["they cursed the whole retinue (which was the real reason of the second",{"entites":[]}],["off-side bullock going lame, and of the pole breaking the night before),",{"entites":[[40,44,"LOC"],[40,44,"LOC"],[40,44,"LOC"]]}],["he was prepared to accept any priest of any other denomination in or out",{"entites":[]}],["of India. To this Kim assented with wise nods, and bade the Oorya",{"entites":[[3,8,"LOC"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[3,8,"LOC"],[60,65,"PERSON"],[60,65,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[60,65,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[3,8,"LOC"]]}],["observe that the lama took no money, and that the cost of his and Kim's",{"entites":[[66,69,"PERSON"],[66,69,"PERSON"],[66,69,"PERSON"]]}],["food would be repaid a hundred times in the good luck that would attend",{"entites":[]}],["the caravan henceforward. He also told stories of Lahore city, and sang",{"entites":[[50,56,"LOC"],[50,56,"LOC"],[50,56,"LOC"]]}],["a song or two which made the escort laugh. As a town-mouse well",{"entites":[]}],["acquainted with the latest songs by the most fashionable",{"entites":[]}],["composers,--they are women for the most part,--Kim had a distinct",{"entites":[[47,50,"PERSON"],[47,50,"PERSON"],[47,50,"PERSON"]]}],["advantage over men from a little fruit-village behind Saharunpore, but",{"entites":[[54,65,"PERSON"],[54,65,"PERSON"],[54,65,"PERSON"]]}],["he let that advantage be inferred.",{"entites":[]}],["At noon they, turned aside to eat, and the meal was good, plentiful, and",{"entites":[]}],["well served on plates of clean leaves, in decency, out of drift of the",{"entites":[]}],["dust. They gave the scraps to certain beggars, that all requirements",{"entites":[]}],["might be fulfilled, and sat down to a long, luxurious smoke. The old",{"entites":[]}],["lady had retreated behind her curtains, but mixed most freely in the",{"entites":[]}],["talk, her servants arguing with and contradicting her as servants do",{"entites":[]}],["throughout the East. She compared the cool and the pines of the Kangra",{"entites":[[64,70,"LOC"],[15,19,"LOC"],[64,70,"LOC"],[15,19,"LOC"],[64,70,"LOC"],[15,19,"LOC"]]}],["and Kulu hills with the dust and the mangoes of the South; she told a",{"entites":[[4,8,"LOC"],[52,57,"LOC"],[4,8,"LOC"],[4,8,"LOC"],[52,57,"LOC"],[52,57,"LOC"]]}],["tale of some old local Gods at the edge of her husband's territory; she",{"entites":[]}],["roundly abused the tobacco which she was then smoking, reviled all",{"entites":[]}],["Brahmins, and speculated without reserve on the coming of many",{"entites":[]}],["grandsons.",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER V",{"entites":[]}],["          Here come I to my own again--",{"entites":[]}],["          Fed, forgiven, and known again--",{"entites":[]}],["          Claimed by bone of my bone again,",{"entites":[]}],["              And sib to flesh of my flesh!",{"entites":[]}],["          The fatted calf is dressed for me,",{"entites":[]}],["          But the husks have greater zest for me . . .",{"entites":[]}],["          I think my pigs will be best for me,",{"entites":[]}],["              So I'm off to the styes afresh.",{"entites":[]}],["                                   'The Prodigal Son.'",{"entites":[]}],["ONCE more the lazy, string-tied, shuffling procession got under way, and",{"entites":[]}],["she slept till they reached the next halting-stage. It was a very short",{"entites":[]}],["march, and time lacked an hour to sundown, so Kim cast about for means",{"entites":[[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"]]}],["of amusement.",{"entites":[]}],["'But why not sit and rest?' said one of the escort. 'Only the devils and",{"entites":[]}],["the English walk to and fro without reason.'",{"entites":[[4,11,"LOC"],[4,11,"LOC"],[4,11,"LOC"]]}],["'Never make friends with the Devil, a monkey, or a boy. No man knows",{"entites":[]}],["what they will do next,' said his fellow.",{"entites":[]}],["Kim turned a scornful back--he did not want to hear the old story how",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["the Devil played with the boys and repented of it--and walked idly",{"entites":[]}],["across country.",{"entites":[]}],["The lama strode after him. All that day, whenever they passed a stream,",{"entites":[]}],["he had turned aside to look at it, but in no case had he received any",{"entites":[]}],["warning that he had found his River. Insensibly too the comfort of",{"entites":[]}],["speaking to some one in a reasonable tongue, and of being properly",{"entites":[]}],["considered and respected as her spiritual adviser by a well-born woman,",{"entites":[]}],["had weaned his thoughts a little from the Search. And further, he was",{"entites":[]}],["prepared to spend serene years in his quest; having nothing of the white",{"entites":[]}],["man's impatience, but a great faith.",{"entites":[]}],["'Where goest thou?' he called after Kim.",{"entites":[[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"]]}],["'No whither--it was a small march, and all this'--Kim waved his hands",{"entites":[[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"]]}],["abroad--'is new to me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'She is beyond question a wise and a discerning woman. But it is hard to",{"entites":[]}],["meditate when--'",{"entites":[]}],["'All women are thus.' Kim spoke as might have Solomon.",{"entites":[[46,53,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[46,53,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[46,53,"PERSON"]]}],["'Before the lamassery was a broad platform,' the lama muttered, looping",{"entites":[]}],["up the well-worn rosary, 'of stone. On that I have left the marks of my",{"entites":[]}],["feet--pacing to and fro with these.'",{"entites":[]}],["He clicked the beads, and began the 'Om mane pudme hum' of his devotion;",{"entites":[]}],["grateful for the cool, the quiet, and the absence of dust.",{"entites":[]}],["One thing after another drew Kim's idle eye across the plain. There was",{"entites":[[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"]]}],["no purpose in his wanderings, except that the build of the huts near by",{"entites":[]}],["seemed new, and he wished to investigate.",{"entites":[]}],["They came out on a broad tract of grazing-ground, brown and purple in",{"entites":[]}],["the afternoon light, with a heavy clump of mangoes in the centre. It",{"entites":[]}],["struck Kim as curious that no shrine stood in so eligible a spot: the",{"entites":[[7,10,"PERSON"],[7,10,"PERSON"],[7,10,"PERSON"]]}],["boy was observing as any priest for these things. Far across the plain",{"entites":[]}],["walked side by side four men, made small by the distance. He looked",{"entites":[]}],["intently under his curved palms and caught the sheen of brass.",{"entites":[]}],["'Soldiers. White soldiers!' said he. 'Let us see.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is always soldiers when thou and I go out alone together. But I have",{"entites":[]}],["never seen the white soldiers.'",{"entites":[]}],["'They do no harm except when they are drunk. Keep behind this tree.'",{"entites":[]}],["They stepped behind the thick trunks in the cool dark of the mango-tope.",{"entites":[]}],["Two little figures halted; the other two came forward uncertainly. They",{"entites":[]}],["were the advance-party of a regiment on the march, sent out, as usual,",{"entites":[]}],["to mark the camp. They bore five-foot sticks with fluttering flags, and",{"entites":[]}],["called to each other as they spread over the flat earth.",{"entites":[]}],["At last they entered the mango-grove, walking heavily.",{"entites":[]}],["'It's here or hereabouts--officers' tents under the trees, I take it,",{"entites":[]}],["an' the rest of us can stay outside. Have they marked out for the",{"entites":[]}],["baggage-waggons behind?'",{"entites":[]}],["They cried again to their comrades in the distance, and the rough answer",{"entites":[]}],["came back faint and mellowed.",{"entites":[]}],["'Shove the flag in here, then,' said one.",{"entites":[]}],["'What do they prepare?' said the lama, wonder-struck. 'This is a great",{"entites":[]}],["and terrible world. What is the device on the flag?'",{"entites":[]}],["A soldier thrust a stave within a few feet of them, grunted",{"entites":[]}],["discontentedly, pulled it up again, conferred with his companion, who",{"entites":[]}],["looked up and down the shaded cave of greenery, and returned it.",{"entites":[]}],["Kim stared with all his eyes, his breath coming short and sharp between",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["his teeth. The soldiers stamped off into the sunshine.",{"entites":[]}],["'O Holy One,' he gasped, 'my horoscope! The drawing in the dust by the",{"entites":[]}],["priest at Umballa! Remember what he said. First come two--ferashes--to",{"entites":[[10,17,"LOC"],[10,17,"LOC"],[10,17,"LOC"]]}],["make all things ready--in a dark place, as it is always at the beginning",{"entites":[]}],["of a vision.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But this is not vision,' said the lama. 'It is the world's Illusion,",{"entites":[]}],["and no more.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And after them comes the Bull--the Red Bull on the green field. Look!",{"entites":[]}],["It is he!'",{"entites":[]}],["He pointed to the flag that was snap-snapping in the evening breeze not",{"entites":[]}],["ten feet away. It was no more than an ordinary camp marking-flag; but",{"entites":[]}],["the regiment, always punctilious in matters of millinery, had charged it",{"entites":[]}],["with the regimental device, the Red Bull, which is the crest of the",{"entites":[]}],["Mavericks--the great Red Bull on a background of Irish green.",{"entites":[[49,54,"LOC"],[21,29,"LOC"],[21,29,"LOC"],[49,54,"LOC"],[21,29,"LOC"],[49,54,"LOC"]]}],["'I see, and now I remember,' said the lama. 'Certainly it is thy Bull.",{"entites":[]}],["Certainly, also, the two men came to make all ready.'",{"entites":[]}],["'They are soldiers--white soldiers. What said the priest? \"The sign over",{"entites":[]}],["against the Bull is the sign of War and armed men.\" Holy One, this thing",{"entites":[]}],["touches my Search.'",{"entites":[]}],["'True. It is true.' The lama stared fixedly at the device that flamed",{"entites":[]}],["like a ruby in the dusk. 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It certainly was a Red Bull--my Red Bull.'",{"entites":[]}],["They were both noticeably absent-minded when the old lady's retinue set",{"entites":[]}],["their meal before them; so none broke their reserve, for it is not lucky",{"entites":[]}],["to annoy guests.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now,' said Kim, picking his teeth, 'we will return to that place; but",{"entites":[[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["thou, O Holy One, must wait a little way off, because thy feet are",{"entites":[]}],["heavier than mine and I am anxious to see more of that Red Bull.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But how canst thou understand the talk? Walk slowly. The road is dark,'",{"entites":[]}],["the lama replied uneasily.",{"entites":[]}],["Kim put the question aside. 'I marked a place near to the trees,' said",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["he, 'where thou canst sit till I call. 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It may be a begging trick of some kind.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I never saw a beggar less anxious to stay with his company, then.",{"entites":[]}],["There's the makings of a gay mystery here. Ye believe in Providence,",{"entites":[[57,67,"LOC"],[57,67,"LOC"],[57,67,"LOC"]]}],["Bennett?'",{"entites":[[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"]]}],["'I hope so.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Well, I believe in miracles, so it comes to the same thing. Powers of",{"entites":[]}],["Darkness! Kimball O'Hara! And his son! But then he's a native, and I saw",{"entites":[[10,24,"PERSON"],[10,24,"PERSON"],[10,24,"PERSON"]]}],["Kimball married myself to Annie Shott. How long have you had these",{"entites":[[26,37,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[26,37,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[26,37,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"]]}],["things, boy?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ever since I was a little baby.' 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Then afterwards we can go.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Powers of Darkness!' was all that Father Victor could say, as Bennett",{"entites":[[35,48,"PERSON"],[35,48,"PERSON"],[35,48,"PERSON"],[63,70,"PERSON"],[63,70,"PERSON"],[63,70,"PERSON"]]}],["marched off, with a firm hand on Kim's shoulder.",{"entites":[[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"]]}],["They found the lama where he had dropped.",{"entites":[]}],["'The Search is at an end for me,' shouted Kim in the vernacular. 'I have",{"entites":[[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"]]}],["found the Bull, but God knows what comes next. They will not hurt you.",{"entites":[]}],["Come to the fat priest's tent with this thin man and see the end. It is",{"entites":[]}],["all new, and they cannot talk Hindi. They are only uncurried donkeys.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Then it is not well to make a jest of their ignorance,' the lama",{"entites":[]}],["returned. 'I am glad if thou art rejoiced, chela.'",{"entites":[]}],["Dignified and unsuspicious, he strode into the little tent, saluted the",{"entites":[]}],["Churches as a Churchman, and sat down by the open charcoal brazier. The",{"entites":[]}],["yellow lining of the tent reflected in the lamplight made his face",{"entites":[]}],["red-gold.",{"entites":[]}],["Bennett looked at him with the triple-ringed uninterest of the creed",{"entites":[[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"]]}],["that lumps nine-tenths of the world under the title of 'heathen.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And what was the end of the search? What gift has the Red Bull",{"entites":[]}],["brought?' 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That's your opinion as Secretary to the Regimental Lodge,' said",{"entites":[]}],["Father Victor; 'but we might as well tell the old man what we are going",{"entites":[[7,13,"PERSON"],[7,13,"PERSON"],[7,13,"PERSON"]]}],["to do. He doesn't look like a villain.'",{"entites":[]}],["'My experience is that one can never fathom the Oriental mind. Now,",{"entites":[]}],["Kimball, I wish you to tell this man what I say--word for word.'",{"entites":[[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim gathered the import of the next few sentences and began thus:",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'Holy One, the thin fool who looks like a camel says that I am the son",{"entites":[]}],["of a Sahib.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But how?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, it is true. I knew it since my birth, but he could only find it out",{"entites":[]}],["by rending the amulet from my neck and reading all the papers. He thinks",{"entites":[]}],["that once a Sahib is always a Sahib, and between the two of them they",{"entites":[]}],["purpose to keep me in this regiment or to send me to a madrissah (a",{"entites":[]}],["school). It has happened before. I have always avoided it. The fat fool",{"entites":[]}],["is of one mind and the camel-like one of another. But that is no odds. I",{"entites":[]}],["may spend one night here and perhaps the next. It has happened before.",{"entites":[]}],["Then I will run away and return to thee.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But tell them that thou art my chela. Tell them how thou didst come to",{"entites":[]}],["me when I was faint and bewildered. Tell them of our Search, and they",{"entites":[]}],["will surely let thee go now.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have already told them. They laugh, and they talk of the Police.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What are you saying?' asked Mr. Bennett.",{"entites":[[33,40,"PERSON"],[33,40,"PERSON"],[33,40,"PERSON"]]}],["'Oah. He only says that if you do not let me go it will stop him in his",{"entites":[]}],["business--his ur-gent private affairs.' This last was a reminiscence of",{"entites":[]}],["some talk with a Eurasian clerk in the Canal Department, but it only",{"entites":[]}],["drew a smile, which nettled him. 'And if you did know what his business",{"entites":[]}],["was you would not be in such a beastly hurry to interfere.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What is it then?' said Father Victor, not without feeling, as he",{"entites":[[24,37,"PERSON"],[24,37,"PERSON"],[24,37,"PERSON"]]}],["watched the lama's face.",{"entites":[]}],["'There is a River in this country which he wishes to find so verree",{"entites":[]}],["much. It was put out by an Arrow which--' Kim tapped his foot",{"entites":[[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"]]}],["impatiently as he translated in his own mind from the vernacular to his",{"entites":[]}],["clumsy English. 'Oah, it was made by our Lord God Buddha, you know, and",{"entites":[[7,14,"LOC"],[46,56,"PERSON"],[7,14,"LOC"],[7,14,"LOC"],[46,56,"PERSON"],[46,56,"PERSON"]]}],["if you wash there you are washed away from all your sins and made as",{"entites":[]}],["white as cotton-wool.' (Kim had heard mission-talk in his time.) 'I am",{"entites":[[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["his disciple, and we must find that River. It is so verree valuable to",{"entites":[]}],["us.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Say that again,' said Bennett. Kim obeyed, with amplifications.",{"entites":[[23,30,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[23,30,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[23,30,"PERSON"]]}],["'But this is gross blasphemy!' cried the Church of England.",{"entites":[]}],["'Tck! Tck!' said Father Victor sympathetically. 'I'd give a good deal to",{"entites":[[17,30,"PERSON"],[17,30,"PERSON"],[17,30,"PERSON"]]}],["be able to talk the vernacular. A river that washes away sin! And how",{"entites":[]}],["long have you two been looking for it?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, many days. Now we wish to go away and look for it again. It is not",{"entites":[]}],["here, you see.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I see,' said Father Victor gravely. 'But he can't go on in that old",{"entites":[[21,27,"PERSON"],[21,27,"PERSON"],[21,27,"PERSON"]]}],["man's company. It would be different, Kim, if you were not a soldier's",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["son. Tell him that the regiment will take care of you and make you as",{"entites":[]}],["good a man as your--as good a man as can be. Tell him that if he",{"entites":[]}],["believes in miracles he must believe that--'",{"entites":[]}],["'There is no need to play on his credulity,' Bennett interrupted.",{"entites":[[45,52,"PERSON"],[45,52,"PERSON"],[45,52,"PERSON"]]}],["'I'm doing no such thing. 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Do you understand?)",{"entites":[]}],["He turned towards the lama, to whom he might as well have talked of",{"entites":[]}],["Mesopotamia.",{"entites":[[0,11,"LOC"],[0,11,"LOC"],[0,11,"LOC"]]}],["'They say,'--the old man's eye lighted at Kim's speech,--'they say that",{"entites":[[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"]]}],["the meaning of my horoscope is now accomplished, and that being led",{"entites":[]}],["back--though as thou knowest I went out of curiosity--to these people",{"entites":[]}],["and their Red Bull I must needs go to a madrissah and be turned into a",{"entites":[]}],["Sahib. Now I make pretence of agreement, for at the worst it will be but",{"entites":[]}],["a few meals eaten away from thee. Then I will slip away and follow down",{"entites":[]}],["the road to Saharunpore. Therefore, Holy One, keep with that Kulu",{"entites":[[61,65,"LOC"],[61,65,"LOC"],[61,65,"LOC"]]}],["woman--on no account stray far from her cart till I come again. Past",{"entites":[]}],["question, my sign is of War and of armed men. See how they have given me",{"entites":[]}],["wine to drink and set me upon a bed of honour! My father must have been",{"entites":[]}],["some great person. So if they raise me to honour among them, good. If",{"entites":[]}],["not, good again. However it goes, I will run back to thee when I am",{"entites":[]}],["tired. But stay with the Rajputni, or I shall miss thy feet. . . . Oah",{"entites":[]}],["yess,' said the boy, 'I have told him everything you tell me to say.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And I cannot see any need why he should wait,' said Bennett, feeling in",{"entites":[[53,60,"PERSON"],[53,60,"PERSON"],[53,60,"PERSON"]]}],["his trouser-pocket. 'We can investigate the details later--and I will",{"entites":[]}],["give him a ru--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Give him time. 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You see you do not know one little word of what he",{"entites":[]}],["says, and I think if you talk he will perhaps give you very bad curses.",{"entites":[]}],["When he takes those beads like that, you see he always wants to be",{"entites":[]}],["quiett.'",{"entites":[]}],["The two Englishmen sat overwhelmed, but there was a look in Bennett's",{"entites":[[60,67,"PERSON"],[60,67,"PERSON"],[60,67,"PERSON"]]}],["eye that promised ill for Kim when he should be relaxed to the religious",{"entites":[[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"]]}],["arm.",{"entites":[]}],["'A Sahib and the son of a Sahib--' The lama's voice was harsh with pain.",{"entites":[[3,8,"PERSON"],[3,8,"PERSON"],[3,8,"PERSON"]]}],["'But no white man knows the land and the customs of the land as thou",{"entites":[]}],["knowest. How comes it this is true?'",{"entites":[]}],["'What matter, Holy One: but remember it is only for a night or two.",{"entites":[]}],["Remember, I can change swiftly. 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Father Victor saw Kim edging towards the door, and",{"entites":[[34,37,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"]]}],["interposed a strong leg.",{"entites":[]}],["'I do not understand the customs of white men. The Priest of the Images",{"entites":[]}],["in the Wonder House in Lahore was more courteous than the thin one here.",{"entites":[[23,29,"LOC"],[23,29,"LOC"],[23,29,"LOC"]]}],["This boy will be taken from me. They will make a Sahib of my disciple?",{"entites":[]}],["Woe to me, how shall I find my River? Have they no disciples? Ask.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He says he is very sorry that he cannot find the River now any more. He",{"entites":[]}],["says, Why have you no disciples, and stop bothering him? He wants to be",{"entites":[]}],["washed of his sins.'",{"entites":[]}],["Neither Bennett nor Father Victor found any answer ready.",{"entites":[[8,15,"PERSON"],[27,33,"PERSON"],[27,33,"PERSON"],[27,33,"PERSON"],[8,15,"PERSON"],[8,15,"PERSON"]]}],["Said Kim in English, distressed for the lama's agony: 'I think if you",{"entites":[[5,8,"PERSON"],[12,19,"LOC"],[12,19,"LOC"],[5,8,"PERSON"],[12,19,"LOC"],[5,8,"PERSON"]]}],["will let me go now we will walk away quietly and not steal. We will look",{"entites":[]}],["for that River like before I was caught. I wish I did not come here to",{"entites":[]}],["find the Red Bull and all that sort of thing. I do not want it.'",{"entites":[[9,17,"LOC"],[9,17,"LOC"],[9,17,"LOC"]]}],["'It's the very best day's work you ever did for yourself, young man,'",{"entites":[]}],["said Bennett.",{"entites":[[5,12,"PERSON"],[5,12,"PERSON"],[5,12,"PERSON"]]}],["'Good heavens, I don't know how to console him,' said Father Victor,",{"entites":[[54,67,"PERSON"],[54,67,"PERSON"],[54,67,"PERSON"]]}],["watching the lama intently. 'He can't take the boy away with him, and",{"entites":[]}],["yet he's a good man--I'm sure he's a good man. Bennett, if you give him",{"entites":[[47,54,"PERSON"],[47,54,"PERSON"],[47,54,"PERSON"]]}],["that rupee he'll curse you root and branch!'",{"entites":[]}],["They listened to each other's breathing--three--five full minutes. Then",{"entites":[]}],["the lama raised his head, and looked forth across them into space and",{"entites":[]}],["emptiness.",{"entites":[]}],["'And I am a follower of the Way,' he said bitterly. 'The sin is mine and",{"entites":[]}],["the punishment is mine. I made believe to myself--for now I see it was",{"entites":[]}],["but make-belief--that thou wast sent to me to aid in the Search. So my",{"entites":[]}],["heart went out to thee for thy charity and thy courtesy and the wisdom",{"entites":[]}],["of thy little years. But those who follow the Way must permit not the",{"entites":[]}],["fire of any desire or attachment, for that is all illusion. As says . . .'",{"entites":[]}],["He quoted an old, old Chinese text, backed it with another, and",{"entites":[[22,29,"LOC"],[22,29,"LOC"],[22,29,"LOC"]]}],["reinforced these with a third. 'I stepped aside from the Way, my chela.",{"entites":[]}],["It was no fault of thine. I delighted in the sight of life, the new",{"entites":[]}],["people upon the roads, and in thy joy at seeing these things. I was",{"entites":[]}],["pleased with thee who should have considered my Search and my Search",{"entites":[]}],["alone. Now I am sorrowful because thou art taken away and my River is",{"entites":[]}],["far from me. It is the Law which I have broken!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Powers of Darkness below!' said Father Victor, who, wise in the",{"entites":[[33,46,"PERSON"],[33,46,"PERSON"],[33,46,"PERSON"]]}],["confessional, heard the pain in every sentence.",{"entites":[]}],["'I see now that the sign of the Red Bull was a sign for me as well as",{"entites":[]}],["for thee. All Desire is red--and evil. I will do penance and find my",{"entites":[]}],["River alone.'",{"entites":[]}],["'At least go back to the Kulu woman,' said Kim, 'otherwise thou wilt be",{"entites":[[25,29,"LOC"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[25,29,"LOC"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[25,29,"LOC"]]}],["lost upon the roads. 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Kimball, I",{"entites":[[55,62,"PERSON"],[55,62,"PERSON"],[55,62,"PERSON"]]}],["suppose you'd like to be a soldier?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Gorah-log (white-folk). No-ah! No-ah!' Kim shook his head violently.",{"entites":[[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"]]}],["There was nothing in his composition to which drill and routine",{"entites":[]}],["appealed. 'I will not be a soldier.'",{"entites":[]}],["'You will be what you're told to be,' said Bennett; and you should be",{"entites":[[43,50,"PERSON"],[43,50,"PERSON"],[43,50,"PERSON"]]}],["grateful that we're going to help you.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim smiled compassionately. If these men lay under the delusion that he",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["would do anything that he did not fancy, so much the better.",{"entites":[]}],["Another long silence followed. Bennett fidgeted with impatience, and",{"entites":[[31,38,"PERSON"],[31,38,"PERSON"],[31,38,"PERSON"]]}],["suggested calling a sentry to evict the faquir.",{"entites":[]}],["'Do they give or sell learning among the Sahibs? Ask them,' said the",{"entites":[]}],["lama, and Kim interpreted.",{"entites":[[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"]]}],["'They say that money is paid to the teacher--but that money the regiment",{"entites":[]}],["will give. . . . What need? It is only for a night.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And--the more money is paid the better learning is given?' The lama",{"entites":[]}],["disregarded Kim's plans for an early flight. 'It is no wrong to pay for",{"entites":[[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["learning; to help the ignorant to wisdom is always a merit.' The rosary",{"entites":[]}],["clicked furiously as an abacus. Then he faced his oppressors.",{"entites":[]}],["'Ask them for how much money do they give a wise and suitable teaching?",{"entites":[]}],["and in what city is that teaching given?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Well,' said Father Victor in English, when Kim had translated, 'that",{"entites":[[13,26,"PERSON"],[30,37,"LOC"],[44,47,"PERSON"],[44,47,"PERSON"],[30,37,"LOC"],[13,26,"PERSON"],[30,37,"LOC"],[13,26,"PERSON"],[44,47,"PERSON"]]}],["depends. The regiment would pay for you all the time you are at the",{"entites":[]}],["Military Orphanage; or you might go on the Punjab Masonic Orphanage's",{"entites":[]}],["list (not that he or you'ud understand what that means); but the best",{"entites":[]}],["schooling a boy can get in India is, of course, at St. Xavier's in",{"entites":[[27,32,"LOC"],[27,32,"LOC"],[27,32,"LOC"]]}],["Partibus at Lucknow.' This took some time to interpret, for Bennett",{"entites":[[0,8,"LOC"],[0,8,"LOC"],[12,19,"LOC"],[0,8,"LOC"],[12,19,"LOC"],[60,67,"PERSON"],[60,67,"PERSON"],[12,19,"LOC"],[60,67,"PERSON"]]}],["wished to cut it short.",{"entites":[]}],["'He wants to know how much?' said Kim placidly.",{"entites":[[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"]]}],["'Two or three hundred rupees a year.' Father Victor was long past any",{"entites":[[45,51,"PERSON"],[45,51,"PERSON"],[45,51,"PERSON"]]}],["sense of amazement. Bennett, impatient, did not understand.",{"entites":[[20,27,"PERSON"],[20,27,"PERSON"],[20,27,"PERSON"]]}],["'He says: \"Write that name and the money upon a paper and give it him.\"",{"entites":[]}],["And he says you must write your name below, because he is going to write",{"entites":[]}],["a letter in some days to you. He says you are a good man. He says the",{"entites":[]}],["other man is a fool. He is going away.'",{"entites":[]}],["The lama rose suddenly. 'I follow my Search,' he cried, and was gone.",{"entites":[]}],["'He'll run slap into the sentries,' cried Father Victor, jumping up as",{"entites":[[49,55,"PERSON"],[49,55,"PERSON"],[49,55,"PERSON"]]}],["the lama stalked out; 'but I can't leave the boy.' Kim made swift motion",{"entites":[[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"]]}],["to follow, but checked himself. There was no sound of challenge outside.",{"entites":[]}],["The lama had disappeared.",{"entites":[]}],["Kim settled himself composedly on the chaplain's cot. At least the lama",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["had promised that he would stay with the Rajput woman from Kulu, and the",{"entites":[[59,63,"LOC"],[59,63,"LOC"],[59,63,"LOC"]]}],["rest was of the smallest importance. It pleased him that the two padres",{"entites":[]}],["were so evidently excited. They talked long in undertones, Father Victor",{"entites":[[66,72,"PERSON"],[66,72,"PERSON"],[66,72,"PERSON"]]}],["urging some scheme on Mr. Bennett, who seemed incredulous. All this was",{"entites":[[26,33,"PERSON"],[26,33,"PERSON"],[26,33,"PERSON"]]}],["very new and fascinating, but Kim felt sleepy. They called men into the",{"entites":[[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"]]}],["tent--one of them certainly was the Colonel, as his father had",{"entites":[]}],["prophesied--and they asked him an infinity of questions, chiefly about",{"entites":[]}],["the woman who looked after him, all of which Kim answered truthfully.",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["They did not seem to think the woman a good guardian.",{"entites":[]}],["After all, this was the newest of his experiences. Sooner or later, if",{"entites":[]}],["he chose, he could escape into great, gray, formless India, beyond tents",{"entites":[[53,58,"LOC"],[53,58,"LOC"],[53,58,"LOC"]]}],["and padres and colonels. Meantime, if the Sahibs were to be impressed,",{"entites":[]}],["he would do his best to impress them. He too was a white man.",{"entites":[]}],["After much talk that he could not comprehend, they handed him over to a",{"entites":[]}],["sergeant, who had strict instructions not to let him escape. The",{"entites":[]}],["regiment would go on to Umballa, and Kim would be sent up, partly at the",{"entites":[[24,31,"LOC"],[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"],[24,31,"LOC"],[37,40,"PERSON"],[24,31,"LOC"]]}],["expense of the Lodge and in part by subscription, to a place called",{"entites":[]}],["Sanawar.",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["'It's miraculous past all whooping, Colonel,' said Father Victor, when",{"entites":[[51,64,"PERSON"],[51,64,"PERSON"],[51,64,"PERSON"]]}],["he had talked without a break for ten minutes. 'His Buddhist friend has",{"entites":[]}],["levanted after taking my name and address. I can't quite make out",{"entites":[]}],["whether he'll pay for the boy's education or whether he is preparing",{"entites":[]}],["some sort of witchcraft on his own account.' Then to Kim: 'You'll live",{"entites":[[53,56,"PERSON"],[53,56,"PERSON"],[53,56,"PERSON"]]}],["to be grateful to your friend the Red Bull yet. We'll make a man of you",{"entites":[]}],["at Sanawar--even at the price o' making you a Protestant.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Certainly--most certainly,' said Bennett.",{"entites":[[34,41,"PERSON"],[34,41,"PERSON"],[34,41,"PERSON"]]}],["'But you will not go to Sanawar,' said Kim.",{"entites":[[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[24,31,"LOC"],[24,31,"LOC"],[24,31,"LOC"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["'But we will go to Sanawar, little man. That's the order of the",{"entites":[[19,26,"LOC"],[19,26,"LOC"],[19,26,"LOC"]]}],["Commander-in-Chief, who's a trifle more important than O'Hara's son.'",{"entites":[[55,61,"PERSON"],[55,61,"PERSON"],[55,61,"PERSON"]]}],["'You will not go to Sanawar. You will go to thee war.'",{"entites":[[20,27,"LOC"],[20,27,"LOC"],[20,27,"LOC"]]}],["There was a shout of laughter from the full tent.",{"entites":[]}],["'When you know your own regiment a trifle better you won't confuse the",{"entites":[]}],["line of march with line of battle, Kim. We hope to go to \"thee war\"",{"entites":[[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"]]}],["sometime.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oah, I know all thatt.' Kim drew his bow again at a venture. If they",{"entites":[[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"]]}],["were not going to the war, at least they did not know what he knew of",{"entites":[]}],["the talk in the veranda at Umballa.",{"entites":[[27,34,"LOC"],[27,34,"LOC"],[27,34,"LOC"]]}],["'I know you are not at thee war now; but I tell you that as soon as you",{"entites":[]}],["get to Umballa you will be sent to the war--the new war. It is a war of",{"entites":[[7,14,"LOC"],[7,14,"LOC"],[7,14,"LOC"]]}],["eight thousand men, besides the guns.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That's explicit. D'you add prophecy to your other gifts? Take him",{"entites":[]}],["along, Sergeant. Take up a suit for him from the Drums, an' take care he",{"entites":[]}],["doesn't slip through your fingers. Who says the age of miracles is gone",{"entites":[]}],["by? I think I'll go to bed. My poor mind's weakening.'",{"entites":[]}],["At the far end of the camp, silent as a wild animal, an hour later sat",{"entites":[]}],["Kim, newly washed all over, in a horrible stuff suit that rasped his",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["arms and legs.",{"entites":[]}],["'A most amazin' young bird,' said the Sergeant. 'He turns up in charge",{"entites":[]}],["of a yellow-headed buck-Brahmin priest, with his father's Lodge",{"entites":[]}],["certificates round his neck, talkin' God knows what all of a red bull.",{"entites":[]}],["The buck-Brahmin evaporates without explanations, an' the bhoy sets",{"entites":[]}],["cross-legged on the chaplain's bed prophesyin' bloody war to the men at",{"entites":[]}],["large. Injia's a wild land for a God-fearin' man. I'll just tie his leg",{"entites":[[7,12,"PERSON"],[7,12,"PERSON"],[7,12,"PERSON"]]}],["to the tent-pole in case he'll go through the roof. What did ye say",{"entites":[]}],["about the war?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Eight thousand men, besides guns,' said Kim. 'Very soon you will see.'",{"entites":[[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"]]}],["'You're a consolin' little imp. Lie down between the Drums an' go to",{"entites":[]}],["bye-bye. Those two boys beside ye will watch your slumbers.'",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER VI",{"entites":[[8,10,"LOC"],[8,10,"LOC"],[8,10,"LOC"]]}],["          Now I remember comrades--",{"entites":[]}],["            Old playmates on new seas--",{"entites":[]}],["          Whenas we traded orpiment",{"entites":[]}],["            Among the savages.",{"entites":[]}],["          Ten thousand leagues to southward,",{"entites":[]}],["            And thirty years removed--",{"entites":[]}],["          They knew not noble Valdez,",{"entites":[[30,36,"PERSON"],[30,36,"PERSON"],[30,36,"PERSON"]]}],["            But me they knew and loved.",{"entites":[]}],["                        'Song of Diego Valdez.'",{"entites":[[33,45,"PERSON"],[33,45,"PERSON"],[33,45,"PERSON"]]}],["VERY early in the morning the white tents came down and disappeared as",{"entites":[]}],["the Mavericks took a side road to Umballa. It did not skirt the",{"entites":[[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"]]}],["resting-place, and Kim, trudging beside a baggage-cart under fire of",{"entites":[[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"]]}],["comments from soldiers' wives, was not so confident as over-night. He",{"entites":[]}],["discovered that he was closely watched--Father Victor on the one side,",{"entites":[[47,53,"PERSON"],[47,53,"PERSON"],[47,53,"PERSON"]]}],["and Mr. Bennett on the other.",{"entites":[[8,15,"PERSON"],[8,15,"PERSON"],[8,15,"PERSON"]]}],["In the forenoon the column checked. A camel-orderly handed the Colonel a",{"entites":[]}],["letter. He read it, and spoke to a major. Half a mile in the rear, Kim",{"entites":[[67,70,"PERSON"],[67,70,"PERSON"],[67,70,"PERSON"]]}],["heard a hoarse and joyful clamour rolling down on him through the thick",{"entites":[]}],["dust. Then some one beat him on the back, crying: 'Tell us how ye knew,",{"entites":[]}],["ye little limb of Satan? Father dear, see if ye can make him tell.'",{"entites":[]}],["A pony ranged alongside, and he was hauled on to the priest's",{"entites":[]}],["saddle-bow.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now, my son, your prophecy of last night has come true. Our orders are",{"entites":[]}],["to entrain at Umballa for the front to-morrow.'",{"entites":[[14,21,"LOC"],[14,21,"LOC"],[14,21,"LOC"]]}],["'What is thatt?' said Kim, for 'front' and 'entrain' were newish words",{"entites":[[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"]]}],["to him.",{"entites":[]}],["'We are going to \"thee war,\" as you called it.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Of course you are going to thee war. I said last night.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ye did; but, Powers o' Darkness, how did ye know?'",{"entites":[[1,3,"PERSON"],[1,3,"PERSON"],[1,3,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim's eyes sparkled. He shut his lips, nodded his head, and looked",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["unspeakable things. The chaplain moved on through the dust, and",{"entites":[]}],["privates, sergeants, and subalterns called one another's attention to",{"entites":[]}],["the boy. The Colonel, at the head of the column, stared at him",{"entites":[]}],["curiously. 'It was probably some bazar rumour,' he said; 'but even",{"entites":[]}],["then--' He referred to the paper in his hand. 'Hang it all, the thing",{"entites":[]}],["was only decided within the last forty-eight hours.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Are there many more like you in India?' said Father Victor, 'or are you",{"entites":[[33,38,"LOC"],[33,38,"LOC"],[33,38,"LOC"],[46,59,"PERSON"],[46,59,"PERSON"],[46,59,"PERSON"]]}],["by way o' being a lusus naturæ?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Now I have told you,' said the boy, 'will you let me go back to my old",{"entites":[]}],["man? If he has not stayed with that woman from Kulu, I am afraid he will",{"entites":[[47,51,"LOC"],[47,51,"LOC"],[47,51,"LOC"]]}],["die.'",{"entites":[]}],["'By what I saw of him he's as well able to take care of himself as you.",{"entites":[]}],["No. Ye've brought us luck, an' we're goin' to make a man of you. I'll",{"entites":[]}],["take ye back to your baggage-cart and ye'll come to me this evening.'",{"entites":[]}],["For the rest of the day Kim found himself an object of distinguished",{"entites":[[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["consideration among a few hundred white men. The story of his appearance",{"entites":[]}],["in camp, the discovery of his parentage, and his prophecy, had lost",{"entites":[]}],["nothing in the telling. A big, shapeless white woman on a pile of",{"entites":[]}],["bedding asked him mysteriously whether he thought her husband would come",{"entites":[]}],["back from the war. Kim reflected gravely, and said that he would, and",{"entites":[[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"]]}],["the woman gave him food. In many respects, this big procession that",{"entites":[]}],["played music at intervals--this crowd that talked and laughed so",{"entites":[]}],["easily--resembled a festival in Lahore city. So far, there was no sign",{"entites":[[32,38,"LOC"],[32,38,"LOC"],[32,38,"LOC"]]}],["of hard work, and he resolved to lend the spectacle his patronage. At",{"entites":[]}],["evening there came out to meet them bands of music, and played the",{"entites":[]}],["Mavericks into camp near Umballa railway station. That was an",{"entites":[[25,32,"LOC"],[25,32,"LOC"],[25,32,"LOC"]]}],["interesting night. Men of other regiments came to visit the Mavericks.",{"entites":[]}],["The Mavericks went visiting on their own account. Their pickets hurried",{"entites":[]}],["forth to bring them back, met pickets of strange regiments on the same",{"entites":[]}],["duty; and, after a while, the bugles blew madly for more pickets with",{"entites":[]}],["officers to control the tumult. The Mavericks had a reputation for",{"entites":[]}],["liveliness to live up to. But they fell in on the platform next morning",{"entites":[]}],["in perfect shape and condition; and Kim, left behind with the sick,",{"entites":[[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"]]}],["women, and boys, found himself shouting farewells excitedly as the",{"entites":[]}],["trains drew away. Life as a Sahib was amusing so far; but he touched it",{"entites":[[28,33,"PERSON"],[28,33,"PERSON"],[28,33,"PERSON"]]}],["with a cautious hand. Then they marched him back in charge of a",{"entites":[]}],["drummer-boy to empty, lime-washed barracks, whose floors were covered",{"entites":[]}],["with rubbish and string and paper, and whose ceilings gave back his",{"entites":[]}],["lonely footfall. Native fashion, he curled himself up on a stripped cot",{"entites":[]}],["and went to sleep. An angry man stumped down the veranda, woke him up,",{"entites":[]}],["and said he was a schoolmaster. This was enough for Kim, and he retired",{"entites":[[52,55,"PERSON"],[52,55,"PERSON"],[52,55,"PERSON"]]}],["into his shell. He could just puzzle out the various English Police",{"entites":[[53,60,"LOC"],[53,60,"LOC"],[53,60,"LOC"]]}],["notices in Lahore city, because they affected his comfort; and among the",{"entites":[[11,17,"LOC"],[11,17,"LOC"],[11,17,"LOC"]]}],["many guests of the woman who looked after him had been a queer German",{"entites":[[63,69,"LOC"],[63,69,"LOC"],[63,69,"LOC"]]}],["who painted scenery for the Parsee travelling theatre. He told Kim that",{"entites":[[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"]]}],["he had been 'on the barricades in Forty-eight,' and therefore--at least",{"entites":[]}],["that was how it struck Kim--he would teach the boy to write in return",{"entites":[[23,26,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"]]}],["for food. Kim had been kicked as far as single letters, but did not",{"entites":[[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"]]}],["think well of them.",{"entites":[]}],["'I do not know anything. Go away!' said Kim, scenting evil. Hereupon the",{"entites":[[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"]]}],["man caught him by the ear, dragged him to a room in a far-off wing where",{"entites":[]}],["a dozen drummer-boys were sitting on forms, and told him to be still if",{"entites":[]}],["he could do nothing else. This he managed very successfully. The man",{"entites":[]}],["explained something or other with white lines on a black board for at",{"entites":[]}],["least half an hour, and Kim continued his interrupted nap. He much",{"entites":[[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["disapproved of the present aspect of affairs, for this was the very",{"entites":[]}],["school and discipline he had spent two-thirds of his young life in",{"entites":[]}],["avoiding. Suddenly a beautiful idea occurred to him, and he wondered",{"entites":[]}],["that he had not thought of it before.",{"entites":[]}],["The man dismissed them, and first to spring through the veranda into the",{"entites":[]}],["open sunshine was Kim.",{"entites":[[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"]]}],["''Ere you! 'Alt! Stop!' said a high voice at his heels. 'I've got to",{"entites":[]}],["look after you. My orders are not to let you out of my sight. Where are",{"entites":[]}],["you goin'?'",{"entites":[]}],["It was the drummer-boy who had been hanging round him all the",{"entites":[]}],["forenoon--a fat and freckled person of about fourteen, and Kim loathed",{"entites":[[59,62,"PERSON"],[59,62,"PERSON"],[59,62,"PERSON"]]}],["him from the soles of his boots to his cap-ribbons.",{"entites":[]}],["'To the bazar--to get sweets--for you,' said Kim, after thought.",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["'Well, the bazar's out o' bounds. If we go there we'll get a",{"entites":[]}],["dressing-down. You come back.'",{"entites":[]}],["'How near can we go?' Kim did not know what bounds meant, but he wished",{"entites":[[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"]]}],["to be polite--for the present.",{"entites":[]}],["''Ow near? 'Ow far, you mean? We can go as far as that tree down the",{"entites":[]}],["road.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Then I will go there.'",{"entites":[]}],["'All right. I ain't goin'. It's too 'ot. I can watch you from 'ere. It's",{"entites":[]}],["no good runnin' away. If you did, they'd spot you by your clothes.",{"entites":[]}],["That's regimental stuff you're wearin'. There ain't a picket in Umballa",{"entites":[[64,71,"LOC"],[64,71,"LOC"],[64,71,"LOC"]]}],["wouldn't 'ead you back quicker than you started out.'",{"entites":[]}],["This did not impress Kim as much as the knowledge that his raiment would",{"entites":[[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"]]}],["tire him out if he tried to run. He slouched to the tree at the corner",{"entites":[]}],["of a bare road leading towards the bazar, and eyed the natives passing.",{"entites":[]}],["Most of them were barrack-servants of the lowest caste. Kim hailed a",{"entites":[[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"]]}],["sweeper, who promptly retorted with a piece of unnecessary insolence, in",{"entites":[]}],["the natural belief that the European boy could not follow. The low,",{"entites":[[28,36,"LOC"],[28,36,"LOC"],[28,36,"LOC"]]}],["quick answer undeceived him. Kim put his fettered soul into it, thankful",{"entites":[[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"]]}],["for the late chance to abuse somebody in the tongue he knew best. 'And",{"entites":[]}],["now, go to the nearest letter-writer in the bazar and tell him to come",{"entites":[]}],["here. I would write a letter.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But--but what manner of white man's son art thou, to need a bazar",{"entites":[]}],["letter-writer? Is there not a schoolmaster in the barracks?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay; and Hell is full of the same sort. Do my order, you--you Od! Thy",{"entites":[]}],["mother was married under a basket! Servant of Lal Beg' (Kim knew the god",{"entites":[[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"]]}],["of the sweepers), 'run on my business or we will talk again.'",{"entites":[]}],["The sweeper shuffled off in haste. 'There is a white boy by the barracks",{"entites":[]}],["waiting under a tree who is not a white boy,' he stammered to the first",{"entites":[]}],["bazar letter-writer he came across. 'He needs thee.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Will he pay?' said that spruce scribe, gathering up his desk and pens",{"entites":[]}],["and sealing-wax all in order.",{"entites":[]}],["'I do not know. He is not like other boys. Go and see. It is well",{"entites":[]}],["worth.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim danced with impatience when the slim young Kayeth hove in sight. As",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["soon as his voice could carry he cursed him volubly.",{"entites":[]}],["'First I will take my pay,' the letter-writer said. 'Bad words have made",{"entites":[]}],["the price higher. But who art thou, dressed in that fashion, to speak in",{"entites":[]}],["this fashion?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Aha! That is in the letter which thou shalt write. Never was such a",{"entites":[]}],["tale. But I am in no haste. Another writer will serve me. Umballa city",{"entites":[[58,65,"LOC"],[58,65,"LOC"],[58,65,"LOC"]]}],["is as full of them as is Lahore.'",{"entites":[[25,31,"LOC"],[25,31,"LOC"],[25,31,"LOC"]]}],["'Four annas,' said the writer, sitting down and spreading his cloth in",{"entites":[]}],["the shade of a deserted barrack-wing.",{"entites":[]}],["Mechanically Kim squatted beside him,--squatted as only the natives",{"entites":[[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"]]}],["can,--in spite of the abominable clinging trousers.",{"entites":[]}],["The writer regarded him sideways.",{"entites":[]}],["'That is the price to ask of Sahibs,' said Kim. 'Now fix me a true one.'",{"entites":[[29,35,"LOC"],[29,35,"LOC"],[29,35,"LOC"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"]]}],["'An anna and a half. How do I know, having written the letter, that thou",{"entites":[]}],["wilt not run away?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I must not go beyond this tree, and there is also the stamp to be",{"entites":[]}],["considered.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I get no commission on the price of the stamp. Once more, what manner",{"entites":[]}],["of white boy art thou?'",{"entites":[]}],["'That shall be said in the letter, which is to Mahbub Ali, the",{"entites":[[47,57,"PERSON"],[47,57,"PERSON"],[47,57,"PERSON"]]}],["horse-dealer in the Kashmir Serai, at Lahore. He is my friend.'",{"entites":[[38,44,"LOC"],[20,33,"LOC"],[20,33,"LOC"],[38,44,"LOC"],[38,44,"LOC"],[20,33,"LOC"]]}],["'Wonder on wonder!' murmured the letter-writer, dipping a reed in the",{"entites":[]}],["inkstand. 'To be written in Hindi?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Assuredly. To Mahbub Ali then. Begin! \"I have come down with the old",{"entites":[[15,25,"PERSON"],[15,25,"PERSON"],[15,25,"PERSON"]]}],["man as far as Umballa in the train. At Umballa I carried the news of the",{"entites":[[14,21,"LOC"],[39,46,"LOC"],[14,21,"LOC"],[39,46,"LOC"],[39,46,"LOC"],[14,21,"LOC"]]}],["bay mare's pedigree.\"' After what he had seen in the garden, he was not",{"entites":[]}],["going to write of white stallions.",{"entites":[]}],["'Slower a little. What has a bay mare to do. . . . Is it Mahbub Ali the",{"entites":[[57,67,"PERSON"],[57,67,"PERSON"],[57,67,"PERSON"]]}],["great dealer?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Who else? I have been in his service. Take more ink. Again. \"As the",{"entites":[]}],["order was, so I did it. We then went on foot towards Benares, but on the",{"entites":[[53,60,"LOC"],[53,60,"LOC"],[53,60,"LOC"]]}],["third day we found a certain regiment.\" Is that down?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay, \"pulton,\"' murmured the writer, all ears.",{"entites":[]}],["'\"I went into their camp and was caught, and by means of the charm about",{"entites":[]}],["my neck, which thou knowest, it was established that I was the son of",{"entites":[]}],["some man in the regiment: according to the prophecy of the Red Bull,",{"entites":[]}],["which thou knowest was common talk of our bazar.\"' Kim waited for this",{"entites":[[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"]]}],["shaft to sink into the letter-writer's heart, cleared his throat, and",{"entites":[]}],["continued: '\"A priest clothed me and gave me a new name . . . One priest,",{"entites":[]}],["however, was a fool. The clothes are very heavy, but I am a Sahib and my",{"entites":[]}],["heart is heavy too. They send me to a school and beat me. I do not like",{"entites":[]}],["the air and water here. Come then and help me, Mahbub Ali, or send me",{"entites":[[47,57,"PERSON"],[47,57,"PERSON"],[47,57,"PERSON"]]}],["some money, for I have not sufficient to pay the writer who writes",{"entites":[]}],["this.\"'",{"entites":[]}],["'\"Who writes this.\" It is my own fault that I was tricked. Thou art as",{"entites":[]}],["clever as Husain Bux that forged the Treasury stamps at Nucklao. But",{"entites":[[56,63,"LOC"],[10,20,"PERSON"],[10,20,"PERSON"],[56,63,"LOC"],[10,20,"PERSON"],[56,63,"LOC"]]}],["what a tale! What a tale! Is it true by any chance?'",{"entites":[]}],["[Illustration: 'First I will take my pay,' the letter-writer said.]",{"entites":[]}],["'It does not profit to tell lies to Mahbub Ali. It is better to help his",{"entites":[[36,46,"PERSON"],[36,46,"PERSON"],[36,46,"PERSON"]]}],["friends by lending them a stamp. When the money comes I will repay.'",{"entites":[]}],["The writer grunted doubtfully, but took a stamp out of his desk, sealed",{"entites":[]}],["the letter, handed it over to Kim, and departed. Mahbub Ali's was a name",{"entites":[[49,59,"PERSON"],[49,59,"PERSON"],[49,59,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"]]}],["of power in Umballa.",{"entites":[[12,19,"LOC"],[12,19,"LOC"],[12,19,"LOC"]]}],["'That is the way to win a good account with the Gods,' Kim shouted after",{"entites":[[55,58,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"]]}],["him.",{"entites":[]}],["'Pay me twice over when the money comes,' the man cried over his",{"entites":[]}],["shoulder.",{"entites":[]}],["'What was you bukkin' to that nigger about?' said the drummer-boy when",{"entites":[]}],["Kim returned to the veranda. 'I was watchin' you.'",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'I was only talkin' to him.'",{"entites":[]}],["'You talk the same as a nigger, don't you?'",{"entites":[]}],["'No-ah! No-ah! I onlee speak a little. What shall we do now?'",{"entites":[]}],["'The bugles 'ill go for dinner in arf a minute. My Gawd! I wish I'd gone",{"entites":[]}],["up to the front with the regiment. It's awful doin' nothin' but school",{"entites":[]}],["down 'ere. Don't you 'ate it?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oah yess!'",{"entites":[]}],["'I'd run away if I knew where to go to, but, as the men say, in this",{"entites":[]}],["bloomin' Injia you're only a prisoner at large. You can't desert without",{"entites":[]}],["bein' took back at once. I'm fair sick of it.'",{"entites":[]}],["'You have been in Be--England?'",{"entites":[[22,29,"LOC"],[22,29,"LOC"],[22,29,"LOC"]]}],["'W'y, I only come out last troopin' season with my mother. I should",{"entites":[]}],["think I 'ave been in England. What a ignorant little beggar you are. You",{"entites":[[21,28,"LOC"],[21,28,"LOC"],[21,28,"LOC"]]}],["was brought up in the gutter, wasn't you?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oah yess. Tell me something about England. My father he came from",{"entites":[[35,42,"LOC"],[35,42,"LOC"],[35,42,"LOC"]]}],["there.'",{"entites":[]}],["Though he would not say so, Kim of course disbelieved every word the",{"entites":[[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"]]}],["drummer-boy spoke about the Liverpool suburb which was his England. It",{"entites":[[59,66,"LOC"],[28,37,"LOC"],[59,66,"LOC"],[28,37,"LOC"],[28,37,"LOC"],[59,66,"LOC"]]}],["passed the heavy time till dinner--a most unappetising meal served to",{"entites":[]}],["the boys and a few invalids in a corner of a barrack-room. But that he",{"entites":[]}],["had written to Mahbub Ali, Kim would have been almost depressed. The",{"entites":[[27,30,"PERSON"],[15,25,"PERSON"],[15,25,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"],[15,25,"PERSON"]]}],["indifference of native crowds he was used to; but this strong loneliness",{"entites":[]}],["among white men preyed on him. He was grateful when, in the course of",{"entites":[]}],["the afternoon, a big soldier took him over to Father Victor, who lived",{"entites":[[53,59,"PERSON"],[53,59,"PERSON"],[53,59,"PERSON"]]}],["in another wing across another dusty parade-ground. The priest was",{"entites":[]}],["reading an English letter written in purple ink. He looked at Kim more",{"entites":[[62,65,"PERSON"],[11,18,"LOC"],[11,18,"LOC"],[62,65,"PERSON"],[11,18,"LOC"],[62,65,"PERSON"]]}],["curiously than ever.",{"entites":[]}],["'An' how do you like it, my son, as far as you've gone? Not much, eh? It",{"entites":[]}],["must be hard--very hard on a wild animal. Listen now. I've an amazin'",{"entites":[]}],["epistle from your friend.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Where is he? Is he well? Oah! If he knows to write me letters, it is",{"entites":[]}],["all right.'",{"entites":[]}],["'You're fond of him then?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Of course I am fond of him. He was fond of me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It seems so by the look of this. He can't write English, can he?'",{"entites":[[49,56,"LOC"],[49,56,"LOC"],[49,56,"LOC"]]}],["'Oah no. Not that I know, but of course he found a letter-writer who can",{"entites":[]}],["write English verree well, and so he wrote. I do hope you understand.'",{"entites":[[6,13,"LOC"],[6,13,"LOC"],[6,13,"LOC"]]}],["'That accounts for it. D'you know anything about his money affairs?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim's face showed that he did not.",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'How can I tell?'",{"entites":[]}],["'That's what I'm askin'. Now listen if you can make head or tail o'",{"entites":[]}],["this. We'll skip the first part. . . . It's written from Jagadhir",{"entites":[[57,70,"LOC"],[57,70,"LOC"],[57,70,"LOC"]]}],["Road. . . . \"Sitting on wayside in grave meditation, trusting to be",{"entites":[]}],["favoured with your Honour's applause of present step, which recommend",{"entites":[]}],["your Honour to execute for Almighty God's sake. Education is greatest",{"entites":[]}],["blessing if of best sorts. Otherwise no earthly use.\" Faith, the old",{"entites":[]}],["man's hit the bull's-eye that time! \"If your Honour condescending giving",{"entites":[]}],["my boy best educations Xavier\" (I suppose that's St. Xavier in Partibus)",{"entites":[[63,71,"LOC"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[63,71,"LOC"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[63,71,"LOC"]]}],["\"in terms of our conversation dated in your tent 15th instant\" (a",{"entites":[]}],["business-like touch there!) \"then Almighty God blessing your Honour's",{"entites":[]}],["succeedings to third an' fourth generation and\"--now listen!--\"confide",{"entites":[]}],["in your Honour's humble servant for adequat remuneration per hoondie per",{"entites":[]}],["annum three hundred rupees a year to one expensive education St. Xavier,",{"entites":[[61,71,"LOC"],[61,71,"LOC"],[61,71,"LOC"]]}],["Lucknow, and allow small time to forward same per hoondie sent to any",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["part of India as your Honour shall address yourself. This servant of",{"entites":[[8,13,"LOC"],[8,13,"LOC"],[8,13,"LOC"]]}],["your Honour has presently no place to lay crown of his head, but going",{"entites":[]}],["to Benares by train on account of persecution of old woman talking so",{"entites":[[3,10,"LOC"],[3,10,"LOC"],[3,10,"LOC"]]}],["much and unanxious residing Saharunpore in any domestic capacity.\" Now",{"entites":[[28,39,"PERSON"],[28,39,"PERSON"],[28,39,"PERSON"]]}],["what in the world does that mean?'",{"entites":[]}],["'She has asked him to be puro--her clergyman--at Saharunpore, I think.",{"entites":[[49,60,"LOC"],[49,60,"LOC"],[49,60,"LOC"]]}],["He would not do that on account of his River. She did talk.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It's clear to you, is it? It beats me altogether. \"So going to Benares,",{"entites":[[64,71,"LOC"],[64,71,"LOC"],[64,71,"LOC"]]}],["where will find address and forward rupees for boy who is apple of eye,",{"entites":[]}],["and for Almighty God's sake execute this education, and your petitioner",{"entites":[]}],["as in duty bound shall ever awfully pray. Written by Sobrao Satai,",{"entites":[[53,65,"PERSON"],[53,65,"PERSON"],[53,65,"PERSON"]]}],["Failed Entrance Allahabad University, for Venerable Teshoo Lama the",{"entites":[]}],["priest of Suchzen looking for a River, address care of Tirthankers'",{"entites":[[10,17,"LOC"],[10,17,"LOC"],[10,17,"LOC"]]}],["Temple, Benares. P. M.--Please note boy is apple of eye, and rupees",{"entites":[[8,15,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"]]}],["shall be sent per hoondie three hundred per annum. For God Almighty's",{"entites":[]}],["sake.\" Now, is that ravin' lunacy or a business proposition? I ask you,",{"entites":[]}],["because I'm fairly at my wits' end.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He says he will give me three hundred rupees a year, so he will give me",{"entites":[]}],["them.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, that's the way you look at it, is it?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Of course. If he says so!'",{"entites":[]}],["The priest whistled; then he addressed Kim as an equal.",{"entites":[[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["'I don't believe it; but we'll see. You were goin' off to-day to the",{"entites":[]}],["Military Orphanage at Sanawar, where the regiment would keep you till",{"entites":[[22,29,"LOC"],[22,29,"LOC"],[22,29,"LOC"]]}],["you were old enough to enlist. Ye'd be brought up to the Church of",{"entites":[]}],["England. Bennett arranged for that. On the other hand, if ye go to St.",{"entites":[[9,16,"PERSON"],[67,77,"LOC"],[9,16,"PERSON"],[67,77,"LOC"],[9,16,"PERSON"],[67,77,"LOC"]]}],["Xavier's ye'll get a better education an'--an' can have the religion.",{"entites":[]}],["D'ye see my dilemma?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim saw nothing save a vision of the lama going south in a train with",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["none to beg for him.",{"entites":[]}],["'Like most people, I'm going to temporise. If your friend sends the",{"entites":[]}],["money from Benares--Powers of Darkness below, where's a street-beggar to",{"entites":[[11,18,"LOC"],[11,18,"LOC"],[11,18,"LOC"]]}],["raise three hundred rupees?--ye'll go down to Lucknow and I'll pay your",{"entites":[[46,53,"LOC"],[46,53,"LOC"],[46,53,"LOC"]]}],["fare, because I can't touch the subscription-money if I intend, as I do,",{"entites":[]}],["to make ye a Catholic. If he doesn't, ye'll go to the Military Orphanage",{"entites":[]}],["at the regiment's expense. I'll allow him three days' grace, though I",{"entites":[]}],["don't believe it at all. Even then, if he fails in his payments later on",{"entites":[]}],[". . . but it's beyond me. We can only walk one step at a time in this",{"entites":[]}],["world, praise God! An' they sent Bennett to the front an' left me",{"entites":[[33,40,"PERSON"],[33,40,"PERSON"],[33,40,"PERSON"]]}],["behind. Bennett can't expect everything.'",{"entites":[[8,15,"PERSON"],[8,15,"PERSON"],[8,15,"PERSON"]]}],["'Oah yess,' said Kim vaguely.",{"entites":[[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"]]}],["The priest leaned forward. 'I'd give a month's pay to find what's goin'",{"entites":[]}],["on inside that little round head of yours.'",{"entites":[]}],["'There is nothing,' said Kim, and scratched it. He was wondering whether",{"entites":[[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"]]}],["Mahbub Ali would send him as much as a whole rupee. Then he could pay",{"entites":[[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"]]}],["the letter-writer and write letters to the lama at Benares. Perhaps",{"entites":[[51,58,"LOC"],[51,58,"LOC"],[51,58,"LOC"]]}],["Mahbub Ali would visit him next time he came south with horses. Surely",{"entites":[[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"]]}],["he must know that Kim's delivery of the letter to the officer at Umballa",{"entites":[[65,72,"LOC"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[65,72,"LOC"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[65,72,"LOC"]]}],["had caused the great war which the men and boys had discussed so loudly",{"entites":[]}],["over the barrack dinner-tables. But if Mahbub Ali did not know this, it",{"entites":[[39,49,"PERSON"],[39,49,"PERSON"],[39,49,"PERSON"]]}],["would be very unsafe to tell him so. Mahbub Ali was hard upon boys who",{"entites":[[37,47,"PERSON"],[37,47,"PERSON"],[37,47,"PERSON"]]}],["knew, or thought they knew, too much.",{"entites":[]}],["'Well, till I get further news'--Father Victor's voice interrupted the",{"entites":[[40,46,"PERSON"],[40,46,"PERSON"],[40,46,"PERSON"]]}],["reverie--'ye can run along and play with the other boys. They'll teach",{"entites":[]}],["ye something--but I don't think ye'll like it.'",{"entites":[]}],["The day dragged to its weary end. When he wished to sleep he was",{"entites":[]}],["instructed how to fold up his clothes and set out his boots; the other",{"entites":[]}],["boys deriding. Bugles waked him in the dawn; the schoolmaster caught him",{"entites":[]}],["after breakfast, thrust a page of meaningless characters under his nose,",{"entites":[]}],["gave them senseless names, and whacked him without reason. Kim meditated",{"entites":[[59,62,"PERSON"],[59,62,"PERSON"],[59,62,"PERSON"]]}],["poisoning him with opium borrowed from a barrack-sweeper, but reflected",{"entites":[]}],["that, as they all ate at one table in public (this was peculiarly",{"entites":[]}],["revolting to Kim, who preferred to turn his back on the world at his",{"entites":[[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"]]}],["meals), the stroke might be dangerous. Then he attempted running off to",{"entites":[]}],["the village where the priest had tried to drug the lama--the village",{"entites":[]}],["where the old soldier lived. But far-seeing sentries at every exit",{"entites":[]}],["headed back the little scarlet figure. Trousers and jacket crippled body",{"entites":[]}],["and mind alike, so he abandoned the project and fell back, Oriental",{"entites":[]}],["fashion, on time and chance. Three days of torment passed in the big,",{"entites":[]}],["echoing white rooms. He walked out of afternoons under escort of the",{"entites":[]}],["drummer-boy, and all he heard from his companion were the few useless",{"entites":[]}],["words which seemed to make two-thirds of the white man's abuse. Kim knew",{"entites":[[64,67,"PERSON"],[64,67,"PERSON"],[64,67,"PERSON"]]}],["and despised them all long ago. The boy resented his silence and lack of",{"entites":[]}],["interest by beating him, as was only natural. He did not care for any of",{"entites":[]}],["the bazars which were in bounds. He styled all natives 'niggers'; yet",{"entites":[]}],["servants and sweepers called him abominable names to his face, and,",{"entites":[]}],["misled by their deferential attitude, he never understood. This somewhat",{"entites":[]}],["consoled Kim for the beatings.",{"entites":[[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"]]}],["On the morning of the fourth day a judgment overtook that drummer. They",{"entites":[]}],["had gone out together towards Umballa race-course. 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How the Divil--yes, He's the man I",{"entites":[]}],["mean--can a street-beggar raise money to educate white boys?'",{"entites":[]}],["Three miles off, on Umballa race-course, Mahbub Ali, reining a gray",{"entites":[[41,51,"PERSON"],[41,51,"PERSON"],[41,51,"PERSON"]]}],["Cabuli stallion with Kim in front of him, was saying:",{"entites":[[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"]]}],["'But, Little Friend of all the World, there is my honour and reputation",{"entites":[]}],["to be considered. All the officer-sahibs in all the regiments, and all",{"entites":[]}],["Umballa, know Mahbub Ali. Men saw me pick thee up and chastise that boy.",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[14,24,"PERSON"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[14,24,"PERSON"],[14,24,"PERSON"]]}],["We are seen now from far across this plain. How can I take thee away, or",{"entites":[]}],["account for thy disappearing if I set thee down and let thee run off",{"entites":[]}],["into the crops? They would put me in jail. Be patient. Once a Sahib,",{"entites":[]}],["always a Sahib. When thou art a man--who knows--thou wilt be grateful to",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub Ali.'",{"entites":[[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"]]}],["'Take me beyond their sentries where I can change this red. Give me",{"entites":[]}],["money and I will go to Benares and be with my lama again. I do not want",{"entites":[[23,30,"LOC"],[23,30,"LOC"],[23,30,"LOC"]]}],["to be a Sahib, and remember I did deliver that message.'",{"entites":[]}],["The stallion bounded wildly. Mahbub Ali had incautiously driven home the",{"entites":[[29,39,"PERSON"],[29,39,"PERSON"],[29,39,"PERSON"]]}],["sharp-edged stirrup. (He was not the new sort of fluent horse-dealer who",{"entites":[]}],["wears English boots and spurs.) Kim drew his own conclusions from that",{"entites":[[32,35,"PERSON"],[6,13,"LOC"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[6,13,"LOC"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[6,13,"LOC"]]}],["betrayal.",{"entites":[]}],["'That was a small matter. It lay on the straight road to Benares. I and",{"entites":[[57,64,"LOC"],[57,64,"LOC"],[57,64,"LOC"]]}],["the Sahib have by this time forgotten it. I send so many letters and",{"entites":[[4,9,"PERSON"],[4,9,"PERSON"],[4,9,"PERSON"]]}],["messages to men who ask questions about horses, I cannot well remember",{"entites":[]}],["one from the other. Was it some matter of a bay mare that Peters Sahib",{"entites":[[58,70,"PERSON"],[58,70,"PERSON"],[58,70,"PERSON"]]}],["wished the pedigree of?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim saw the trap at once. If he had said 'bay mare' Mahbub would have",{"entites":[[52,58,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[52,58,"PERSON"],[52,58,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["known by his very readiness to fall in with the amendment that the boy",{"entites":[]}],["suspected something. Kim replied therefore:",{"entites":[[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"]]}],["'Bay mare? No. I do not forget my messages thus. It was a white",{"entites":[]}],["stallion.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay, so it was. A white Arab stallion. But thou didst write bay mare to",{"entites":[]}],["me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Who cares to tell truth to a letter-writer?' Kim answered, feeling",{"entites":[[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"]]}],["Mahbub's palm on his heart.",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["'Hi! Mahbub, you old villain, pull up!' cried a voice, and an Englishman",{"entites":[[62,72,"LOC"],[5,11,"PERSON"],[5,11,"PERSON"],[5,11,"PERSON"],[62,72,"LOC"],[62,72,"LOC"]]}],["raced alongside on a little polo-pony. 'I've been chasing you half over",{"entites":[]}],["the country. That Cabuli of yours can go. For sale, I suppose?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have some young stuff coming on made by Heaven for the delicate and",{"entites":[]}],["difficult polo-game. He has no equal. He--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Plays polo and waits at table. Yes. We know all that. What the deuce",{"entites":[]}],["have you got there?'",{"entites":[]}],["'A boy,' said Mahbub gravely. 'He was being beaten by another boy. His",{"entites":[[14,20,"PERSON"],[14,20,"PERSON"],[14,20,"PERSON"]]}],["father was once a white soldier in the big war. The boy was a child in",{"entites":[]}],["Lahore city. He played with my horses when he was a babe. Now I think",{"entites":[[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["they will make him a soldier. He has been newly caught by his father's",{"entites":[]}],["regiment that went up to the war last week. But I do not think he wants",{"entites":[]}],["to be a soldier. I take him for a ride. Tell me where thy barracks are",{"entites":[]}],["and I will set thee there.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Let me go. I can find the barracks alone.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And if thou runnest away who will say it is not my fault?'",{"entites":[]}],["'He'll run back to his dinner. Where has he to run to?' the Englishman",{"entites":[[60,70,"LOC"],[60,70,"LOC"],[60,70,"LOC"]]}],["asked.",{"entites":[]}],["'He was born in the land. He has friends. He goes where he chooses. He",{"entites":[]}],["is a chabuk sawai (a sharp chap). It needs only to change his clothing,",{"entites":[]}],["and in a twinkling he would be a low-caste Hindi boy.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The deuce he would!' The Englishman looked critically at the boy as",{"entites":[[26,36,"LOC"],[26,36,"LOC"],[26,36,"LOC"]]}],["Mahbub headed towards the barracks. Kim ground his teeth. Mahbub was",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"],[58,64,"PERSON"],[58,64,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"],[58,64,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"]]}],["mocking him, as faithless Afghans will; for he went on:",{"entites":[]}],["'They will send him to a school and put heavy boots on his feet and",{"entites":[]}],["swaddle him in these clothes. Then he will forget all he knows. Now",{"entites":[]}],["which of the barracks is thine?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim pointed--he could not speak--to Father Victor's wing, all staring",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[43,49,"PERSON"],[43,49,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[43,49,"PERSON"]]}],["white near by.",{"entites":[]}],["'Perhaps he will make a good soldier,' said Mahbub reflectively. 'He",{"entites":[[44,50,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"]]}],["will make a good orderly at least. I sent him to deliver a message once",{"entites":[]}],["from Lahore. A message concerning the pedigree of a white stallion.'",{"entites":[[5,11,"LOC"],[5,11,"LOC"],[5,11,"LOC"]]}],["Here was deadly insult on deadlier injury--and the Sahib to whom he had",{"entites":[[51,56,"PERSON"],[51,56,"PERSON"],[51,56,"PERSON"]]}],["so craftily given that war-making letter heard it all. Kim beheld Mahbub",{"entites":[[55,58,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"],[66,76,"PERSON"],[66,76,"PERSON"],[66,76,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"]]}],["Ali frying in flame for his treachery, but for himself he saw one long",{"entites":[]}],["gray vista of barracks, schools, and barracks again. He gazed",{"entites":[]}],["imploringly at the clear-cut face in which there was no glimmer of",{"entites":[]}],["recognition; but even at this extremity it never occurred to him to",{"entites":[]}],["throw himself on the white man's mercy or to denounce the Afghan. And",{"entites":[[58,64,"LOC"],[58,64,"LOC"],[58,64,"LOC"]]}],["Mahbub stared deliberately at the Englishman, who stared as deliberately",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[34,44,"LOC"],[34,44,"LOC"],[34,44,"LOC"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["at Kim, quivering and tongue-tied.",{"entites":[[3,6,"PERSON"],[3,6,"PERSON"],[3,6,"PERSON"]]}],["'My horse is well trained,' said the dealer. 'Others would have kicked,",{"entites":[]}],["Sahib.'",{"entites":[[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"]]}],["'Ah,' said the Englishman at last, rubbing his pony's damp withers with",{"entites":[[15,25,"LOC"],[15,25,"LOC"],[15,25,"LOC"]]}],["his whip-butt. 'Who makes the boy a soldier?'",{"entites":[]}],["'He says the regiment that found him, and especially the padre-sahib of",{"entites":[]}],["that regiment.'",{"entites":[]}],["'There is the padre!' Kim choked as bare-headed Father Victor sailed",{"entites":[[22,25,"PERSON"],[55,61,"PERSON"],[55,61,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[55,61,"PERSON"]]}],["down upon them from the veranda.",{"entites":[]}],["'Powers o' Darkness below, O'Hara! How many more mixed friends do you",{"entites":[[27,33,"PERSON"],[27,33,"PERSON"],[27,33,"PERSON"]]}],["keep in Asia?' he cried, as Kim slid down and stood helplessly before",{"entites":[[8,12,"LOC"],[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"]]}],["him.",{"entites":[]}],["'Good morning, Padre,' the Colonel said cheerily. 'I know you by",{"entites":[]}],["reputation well enough. Meant to have come over and called before this.",{"entites":[]}],["I'm Creighton.'",{"entites":[[4,13,"PERSON"],[4,13,"PERSON"],[4,13,"PERSON"]]}],["'Of the Ethnological Survey?' said Father Victor. The Colonel nodded.",{"entites":[[35,48,"PERSON"],[35,48,"PERSON"],[35,48,"PERSON"]]}],["'Faith I'm glad to meet ye then; an' I owe you some thanks for bringing",{"entites":[]}],["back the boy.'",{"entites":[]}],["'No thanks to me, Padre. Besides, the boy wasn't going away. You don't",{"entites":[[18,23,"LOC"],[18,23,"LOC"]]}],["know old Mahbub Ali'--the horse-dealer sat impassive in the sunlight.",{"entites":[[9,19,"PERSON"],[9,19,"PERSON"],[9,19,"PERSON"]]}],["'You will when you have been in the station a month. He sells us all our",{"entites":[]}],["crocks. That boy is rather a curiosity. Can you tell me anything about",{"entites":[]}],["him?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Can I tell you?' puffed Father Victor. 'You'll be the one man that",{"entites":[[32,38,"PERSON"],[32,38,"PERSON"],[32,38,"PERSON"]]}],["could help me in my quandaries. Tell you! Powers o' Darkness, I'm",{"entites":[]}],["bursting to tell some one who knows something o' the native!'",{"entites":[]}],["A groom came round the corner. Colonel Creighton raised his voice,",{"entites":[[39,48,"PERSON"],[39,48,"PERSON"],[39,48,"PERSON"]]}],["speaking in Urdu. 'Very good, Mahbub Ali, but what is the use of telling",{"entites":[[12,16,"LOC"],[12,16,"LOC"],[30,40,"PERSON"],[30,40,"PERSON"],[12,16,"LOC"],[30,40,"PERSON"]]}],["me all those stories about the pony. Not one pie more than three hundred",{"entites":[]}],["and fifty rupees will I give.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The Sahib is a little hot and angry after riding,' the horse-dealer",{"entites":[[5,10,"PERSON"],[5,10,"PERSON"],[5,10,"PERSON"]]}],["returned, with the leer of a privileged jester. 'Presently, he will see",{"entites":[]}],["my horse's points more clearly. I will wait till he has finished his",{"entites":[]}],["talk with the padre. I will wait under that tree.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Confound you!' The Colonel laughed. 'That comes of looking at one of",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub's horses. He's a regular old leech, Padre. Wait then, if thou",{"entites":[[43,48,"LOC"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[43,48,"LOC"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["hast so much time to spare, Mahbub. Now I'm at your service, Padre.",{"entites":[[61,66,"LOC"],[61,66,"LOC"],[28,34,"PERSON"],[28,34,"PERSON"],[28,34,"PERSON"]]}],["Where is the boy? Oh, he's gone off to collogue with Mahbub. Queer sort",{"entites":[[53,59,"PERSON"],[53,59,"PERSON"],[53,59,"PERSON"]]}],["of boy. Might I ask you to send my mare round under cover?'",{"entites":[]}],["He dropped into a chair which commanded a clear view of Kim and Mahbub",{"entites":[[64,74,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"],[64,74,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"],[64,74,"PERSON"]]}],["Ali in conference beneath the tree. The padre went indoors for cheroots.",{"entites":[]}],["Creighton heard Kim say bitterly: 'Trust a Brahmin before a snake, and a",{"entites":[[16,19,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"]]}],["snake before a harlot, and a harlot before an Afghan, Mahbub Ali.'",{"entites":[[46,52,"LOC"],[46,52,"LOC"],[54,64,"PERSON"],[54,64,"PERSON"],[54,64,"PERSON"],[46,52,"LOC"]]}],["'That is all one,' the great red beard wagged solemnly. 'Children should",{"entites":[]}],["not see a carpet on the loom till the pattern is made plain. Believe me,",{"entites":[]}],["Friend of all the World, I do thee great service. They will not make a",{"entites":[]}],["soldier of thee.'",{"entites":[]}],["'You crafty old sinner,' thought Creighton. 'But you're not far wrong.",{"entites":[[33,42,"PERSON"],[33,42,"PERSON"],[33,42,"PERSON"]]}],["That boy mustn't be wasted if he is as advertised.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Excuse me half a minute,' cried the padre from within, 'but I'm gettin'",{"entites":[]}],["the documents of the case.'",{"entites":[]}],["'If through me the favour of this bold and wise Colonel Sahib comes to",{"entites":[[56,61,"PERSON"],[56,61,"PERSON"],[56,61,"PERSON"]]}],["thee, and thou art raised to honour, what thanks wilt thou give Mahbub",{"entites":[[64,74,"PERSON"],[64,74,"PERSON"],[64,74,"PERSON"]]}],["Ali when thou art a man?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay, nay; I begged thee to let me take the road again, where I should",{"entites":[]}],["have been safe; and thou hast sold me back to the English. What will",{"entites":[[50,57,"LOC"],[50,57,"LOC"],[50,57,"LOC"]]}],["they give thee for blood-money?'",{"entites":[]}],["'A cheerful young demon!' The Colonel bit his cigar, and turned politely",{"entites":[]}],["to Father Victor.",{"entites":[[10,16,"PERSON"],[10,16,"PERSON"],[10,16,"PERSON"]]}],["'What are the letters that the fat priest is waving before the Colonel?",{"entites":[]}],["Stand behind the stallion as though looking at my bridle!' said Mahbub",{"entites":[[64,74,"PERSON"],[64,74,"PERSON"],[64,74,"PERSON"]]}],["Ali.",{"entites":[]}],["'A letter from my lama which he wrote from Jagadhir Road, saying that he",{"entites":[[43,56,"LOC"],[43,56,"LOC"],[43,56,"LOC"]]}],["will pay three hundred rupees by the year for my schooling.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oho! Is old Red Hat of that sort? At which school?'",{"entites":[]}],["'God knows. I think in Nucklao.'",{"entites":[[23,30,"LOC"],[23,30,"LOC"],[23,30,"LOC"]]}],["'Yes. There is a big school there for the sons of Sahibs--and",{"entites":[]}],["half-Sahibs. I have seen it when I sell horses there. So the lama also",{"entites":[]}],["loved the Friend of all the World?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay; and he did not tell lies, or return me to captivity.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Small wonder the padre does not know how to unravel the thread. How",{"entites":[]}],["fast he talks to the Colonel Sahib.' Mahbub Ali chuckled. 'By",{"entites":[[37,47,"PERSON"],[37,47,"PERSON"],[29,34,"PERSON"],[29,34,"PERSON"],[37,47,"PERSON"],[29,34,"PERSON"]]}],["Allah!'--the keen eyes swept the veranda for an instant--'thy lama has",{"entites":[]}],["sent what to me looks like a note of hand. I have had some small",{"entites":[]}],["dealings in hoondies. The Colonel Sahib is looking at it.'",{"entites":[[34,39,"PERSON"],[34,39,"PERSON"],[34,39,"PERSON"]]}],["'What good is all this to me?' said Kim wearily. 'Thou wilt go away, and",{"entites":[[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"]]}],["they will return me to those empty rooms where there is no good place to",{"entites":[]}],["sleep and where the boys beat me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I do not think that. Have patience, child. All Pathans are not",{"entites":[]}],["faithless--except in horseflesh.'",{"entites":[]}],["Five--ten--fifteen minutes passed, Father Victor talking energetically",{"entites":[[42,48,"PERSON"],[42,48,"PERSON"],[42,48,"PERSON"]]}],["or asking questions which the Colonel answered.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now I've told you everything that I know about the boy from beginnin'",{"entites":[]}],["to end; and it's a blessed relief to me. Did ye ever hear the like?'",{"entites":[]}],["'At any rate, the old man has sent the money. Gobind Sahai's notes of",{"entites":[[46,58,"PERSON"],[46,58,"PERSON"],[46,58,"PERSON"]]}],["hand are good from here to China,' said the Colonel. 'The more one knows",{"entites":[[27,32,"LOC"],[27,32,"LOC"],[27,32,"LOC"]]}],["about natives the less can one say what they will or won't do.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That's consolin'--from the head of the Ethnological Survey. It's this",{"entites":[]}],["mixture of Red Bulls and Rivers of Healing (poor heathen, God help him!)",{"entites":[]}],["an' notes of hand and Masonic certificates. Are you a Mason, by any",{"entites":[]}],["chance?'",{"entites":[]}],["'By Jove, I am, now I come to think of it. That's an additional reason,'",{"entites":[[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"]]}],["said the Colonel absently.",{"entites":[]}],["'I'm glad ye see a reason in it. But as I said, it's the mixture o'",{"entites":[]}],["things that's beyond me. An' his prophesyin' to our Colonel sitting on",{"entites":[]}],["my bed with his little shimmy torn open showing his white skin; an' the",{"entites":[]}],["prophecy comin' true! They'll cure all that nonsense at St. Xavier's,",{"entites":[[56,66,"LOC"],[56,66,"LOC"],[56,66,"LOC"]]}],["eh?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Sprinkle him with holy water,' the Colonel laughed.",{"entites":[]}],["'On my word, I fancy I ought to sometimes. But I'm hoping he'll be",{"entites":[]}],["brought up as a good Catholic. All that troubles me is what'll happen if",{"entites":[]}],["the old beggarman--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Lama, lama, my dear sir; and some of them are gentlemen in their own",{"entites":[]}],["country.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The lama, then, fails to pay next year. He's a fine business head to",{"entites":[]}],["plan on the spur of the moment, but he's bound to die some day. An'",{"entites":[]}],["takin' a heathen's money to give a child a Christian education--'",{"entites":[]}],["'But he said explicitly what he wanted. As soon as he knew the boy was",{"entites":[]}],["white he seems to have made his arrangements accordingly. I'd give a",{"entites":[]}],["month's pay to hear how he explained it all at the Tirthankers' Temple",{"entites":[]}],["at Benares. Look here, Padre, I don't pretend to know much about",{"entites":[[3,10,"LOC"],[23,28,"LOC"],[3,10,"LOC"],[3,10,"LOC"],[23,28,"LOC"]]}],["natives, but if he says he'll pay, he'll pay--dead or alive. I mean his",{"entites":[]}],["heirs will assume the debt. My advice to you is, send the boy down to",{"entites":[]}],["Lucknow. If your Anglican chaplain thinks you've stolen a march on",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["him--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Bad luck to Bennett! He was sent to the front instead o' me. Doughty",{"entites":[[13,20,"PERSON"],[62,69,"PERSON"],[62,69,"PERSON"],[13,20,"PERSON"],[62,69,"PERSON"],[13,20,"PERSON"]]}],["certified me medically unfit. I'll excommunicate Doughty if he comes",{"entites":[[49,56,"PERSON"],[49,56,"PERSON"],[49,56,"PERSON"]]}],["back alive! Surely Bennett ought to be content with--'",{"entites":[[19,26,"PERSON"],[19,26,"PERSON"],[19,26,"PERSON"]]}],["'Glory, leaving you the religion. Quite so! As a matter of fact I don't",{"entites":[]}],["think Bennett will mind. Put the blame on me. I--er--strongly recommend",{"entites":[[6,13,"PERSON"],[6,13,"PERSON"],[6,13,"PERSON"]]}],["sending the boy to St. Xavier's. He can go down on pass as a soldier's",{"entites":[[19,29,"LOC"],[19,29,"LOC"],[19,29,"LOC"]]}],["orphan, so the railway fare will be saved. You can buy him an outfit",{"entites":[]}],["from the regimental subscription. The Lodge will be saved the expense of",{"entites":[]}],["his education, and that will put the Lodge in a good temper. It's",{"entites":[]}],["perfectly easy. I've got to go down to Lucknow next week. I'll look",{"entites":[[39,46,"LOC"],[39,46,"LOC"],[39,46,"LOC"]]}],["after the boy on the way--give him in charge of my servants, and so on.'",{"entites":[]}],["'You're a good man.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Not in the least. Don't make that mistake. The lama has sent us money",{"entites":[]}],["for a definite end. We can't very well return it. We shall have to do as",{"entites":[]}],["he says. Well, that's settled, isn't it? Shall we say that, Tuesday",{"entites":[]}],["next, you'll hand him over to me at the night train south? That's only",{"entites":[]}],["three days. He can't do much harm in three days.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It's a weight off my mind, but--this thing here?'--he waved the note of",{"entites":[]}],["hand--'I don't know Gobind Sahai: or his bank, which may be a hole in a",{"entites":[[20,32,"PERSON"],[20,32,"PERSON"],[20,32,"PERSON"]]}],["wall.'",{"entites":[]}],["'You've never been a subaltern in debt. I'll cash it if you like, and",{"entites":[]}],["send you the vouchers in proper order.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But with all your own work too! It's askin'--'",{"entites":[]}],["'It's not the least trouble indeed. You see, as an ethnologist, the",{"entites":[]}],["thing's very interesting to me. I'd like to make a note of it for some",{"entites":[]}],["Government work that I'm doing. The transformation of a regimental badge",{"entites":[]}],["like your Red Bull into a sort of fetish that the boy follows is very",{"entites":[]}],["interesting.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But I can't thank you enough.'",{"entites":[]}],["'There's one thing you can do. All we Ethnological men are as jealous as",{"entites":[]}],["jackdaws of one another's discoveries. They're of no interest to any one",{"entites":[]}],["but ourselves, of course, but you know what book-collectors are like.",{"entites":[]}],["Well, don't say a word, directly or indirectly, about the Asiatic side",{"entites":[]}],["of the boy's character--his adventures and his prophecy, and so on. I'll",{"entites":[]}],["worm them out of the boy later on and--you see?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I do. Ye'll make a wonderful account of it. Never a word will I say to",{"entites":[]}],["any one till I see it in print.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Thank you. That goes straight to an ethnologist's heart. Well, I must",{"entites":[]}],["be getting back to my breakfast. Good heavens! Old Mahbub here still?'",{"entites":[[51,57,"PERSON"],[51,57,"PERSON"],[51,57,"PERSON"]]}],["He raised his voice, and the horse-dealer came out from under the shadow",{"entites":[]}],["of the tree. 'Well, what is it?'",{"entites":[]}],["'As regards that young horse,' said Mahbub, 'I say that when a colt is",{"entites":[[36,42,"PERSON"],[36,42,"PERSON"],[36,42,"PERSON"]]}],["born to be a polo-pony, closely following the ball without",{"entites":[]}],["teaching--when such a colt knows the game by divination--then I say it",{"entites":[]}],["is a great wrong to break that colt to a heavy cart, Sahib!'",{"entites":[[53,58,"PERSON"],[53,58,"PERSON"],[53,58,"PERSON"]]}],["'So do I say also, Mahbub. The colt will be entered for polo only.",{"entites":[[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"]]}],["(These fellows think of nothing in the world but horses, Padre.) I'll",{"entites":[[57,62,"LOC"],[57,62,"LOC"]]}],["see you to-morrow, Mahbub, if you've anything likely for sale.'",{"entites":[[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"]]}],["The dealer saluted, horseman fashion, with a sweep of the off hand. 'Be",{"entites":[]}],["patient a little, Friend of all the World,' he whispered to the agonised",{"entites":[]}],["Kim. 'Thy fortune is made. In a little while thou goest to Nucklao",{"entites":[[59,66,"LOC"],[59,66,"LOC"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[59,66,"LOC"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["and--here is something to pay the letter-writer. I shall see thee again,",{"entites":[]}],["I think, many times,' and he cantered off down the road.",{"entites":[]}],["'Listen to me,' said the Colonel from the veranda, speaking in the",{"entites":[]}],["vernacular. 'In three days thou wilt go with me to Lucknow, seeing and",{"entites":[[51,58,"LOC"],[51,58,"LOC"],[51,58,"LOC"]]}],["hearing new things all the while. Therefore sit still for three days and",{"entites":[]}],["do not run away. Thou wilt go to school at Lucknow.'",{"entites":[[43,50,"LOC"],[43,50,"LOC"],[43,50,"LOC"]]}],["'Shall I meet my Holy One there?' Kim whimpered.",{"entites":[[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"]]}],["'At least Lucknow is nearer to Benares than Umballa. It may be thou wilt",{"entites":[[10,17,"LOC"],[31,38,"LOC"],[10,17,"LOC"],[10,17,"LOC"],[44,51,"PERSON"],[31,38,"LOC"],[44,51,"PERSON"],[44,51,"PERSON"],[31,38,"LOC"]]}],["go under my protection. Mahbub Ali knows this, and he will be angry if",{"entites":[[24,34,"PERSON"],[24,34,"PERSON"],[24,34,"PERSON"]]}],["thou returnest to the road now. Remember--much has been told to me which",{"entites":[]}],["I do not forget.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I will wait,' said Kim, 'but the boys will beat me.'",{"entites":[[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"]]}],["Then the bugles blew for dinner.",{"entites":[]}],["[Illustration: '. . . Pathans are not faithless--except in",{"entites":[]}],["horse-flesh.']",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER VII",{"entites":[]}],["          Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised",{"entites":[]}],["            With idiot moons and stars retracting stars?",{"entites":[]}],["          Creep thou betweene--thy coming's all unnoised.",{"entites":[]}],["            Heaven hath her high, as earth her baser, wars.",{"entites":[]}],["          Heir to these tumults, this affright, that fray",{"entites":[]}],["          (By Adam's, fathers', own, sin bound alway);",{"entites":[[14,18,"PERSON"],[14,18,"PERSON"],[14,18,"PERSON"]]}],["          Peer up, draw out thy horoscope and say",{"entites":[]}],["            Which planet mends thy threadbare fate or mars!",{"entites":[]}],["                                           Sir John Christie.",{"entites":[[47,60,"PERSON"],[47,60,"PERSON"],[47,60,"PERSON"]]}],["IN the afternoon the red-faced schoolmaster told Kim that he had been",{"entites":[[49,52,"PERSON"],[49,52,"PERSON"],[49,52,"PERSON"]]}],["'struck off the strength,' which conveyed no meaning to him till he was",{"entites":[]}],["ordered to go away and play. Then he ran to the bazar, and found the",{"entites":[]}],["young letter-writer to whom he owed a stamp.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now I pay,' said Kim royally, 'and now I need another letter to be",{"entites":[[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"]]}],["written.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Mahbub Ali is in Umballa,' said the writer jauntily. He was, by virtue",{"entites":[[18,25,"LOC"],[18,25,"LOC"],[18,25,"LOC"],[1,11,"PERSON"],[1,11,"PERSON"],[1,11,"PERSON"]]}],["of his office, a bureau of general misinformation.",{"entites":[]}],["'This is not to Mahbub, but to a priest. Take thy pen and write quickly.",{"entites":[[16,22,"PERSON"],[16,22,"PERSON"],[16,22,"PERSON"]]}],["\"To Teshoo Lama, the holy one from Bhotiyal seeking for a River, who is",{"entites":[[35,43,"LOC"],[35,43,"LOC"],[35,43,"LOC"]]}],["now in the Temple of the Tirthankers at Benares.\" Take more ink! \"In",{"entites":[[40,47,"LOC"],[40,47,"LOC"],[40,47,"LOC"]]}],["three days I am to go down to Nucklao to the school at Nucklao. The name",{"entites":[[30,37,"LOC"],[55,62,"LOC"],[30,37,"LOC"],[55,62,"LOC"],[55,62,"LOC"],[30,37,"LOC"]]}],["of the school is Xavier. I do not know where that school is, but it is",{"entites":[[17,23,"PERSON"],[17,23,"PERSON"],[17,23,"PERSON"]]}],["at Nucklao.\"",{"entites":[[3,10,"LOC"],[3,10,"LOC"],[3,10,"LOC"]]}],["'But I know Nucklao,' the writer interrupted. 'I know the school.'",{"entites":[[12,19,"PERSON"],[12,19,"PERSON"],[12,19,"PERSON"]]}],["'Tell him where it is, and I give half an anna.'",{"entites":[]}],["The reed pen scratched busily. 'He cannot mistake.' The man lifted his",{"entites":[]}],["head. 'Who watches us across the street?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim looked up hurriedly and saw Colonel Creighton in tennis-flannels.",{"entites":[[40,49,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[40,49,"PERSON"],[40,49,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'Oh, that is some Sahib who knows the fat priest in the barracks. He is",{"entites":[[18,23,"PERSON"],[18,23,"PERSON"],[18,23,"PERSON"]]}],["beckoning me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What dost thou?' said the Colonel, when Kim trotted up.",{"entites":[[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"]]}],["'I--I am not running away. I send a letter to my Holy One at Benares.'",{"entites":[[61,68,"LOC"],[61,68,"LOC"],[61,68,"LOC"]]}],["'I had not thought of that. Hast thou said that I take thee to Lucknow?'",{"entites":[[28,32,"PERSON"],[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"],[28,32,"PERSON"]]}],["'Nay, I have not. Read the letter, if there be a doubt.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Then why hast thou left out my name in writing to that Holy One?' The",{"entites":[]}],["Colonel smiled a queer smile. Kim took his courage in both hands.",{"entites":[[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"]]}],["'It was said once to me that it is inexpedient to write the names of",{"entites":[]}],["strangers concerned in any matter, because by the naming of names many",{"entites":[]}],["good plans are brought to confusion.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Thou hast been well taught,' the Colonel replied, and Kim flushed. 'I",{"entites":[[55,58,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"]]}],["have left my cheroot-case in the padre's veranda. Bring it to my house",{"entites":[]}],["this even.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Where is the house?' said Kim. His quick wit told him that he was being",{"entites":[[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"]]}],["tested in some fashion or another, and he stood on guard.",{"entites":[]}],["'Ask any one in the big bazar.' The Colonel walked on.",{"entites":[]}],["'He has forgotten his cheroot-case,' said Kim, returning. 'I must bring",{"entites":[[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"]]}],["it to him this evening. That is all my letter except, thrice over, \"Come",{"entites":[]}],["to me! Come to me! Come to me!\" Now I will pay for a stamp and put it in",{"entites":[]}],["the post.' He rose to go, and as an afterthought asked, 'Who is that",{"entites":[]}],["angry-faced Sahib who lost the cheroot-case?'",{"entites":[[12,17,"PERSON"],[12,17,"PERSON"],[12,17,"PERSON"]]}],["'Oh, he is only Creighton Sahib--a very foolish Sahib, who is a Colonel",{"entites":[[16,31,"PERSON"],[16,31,"PERSON"],[48,53,"PERSON"],[48,53,"PERSON"],[48,53,"PERSON"],[16,31,"PERSON"]]}],["Sahib without a regiment.'",{"entites":[[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"]]}],["'What is his business?'",{"entites":[]}],["'God knows. He is always buying horses which he cannot ride, and asking",{"entites":[]}],["riddles about the works of God--such as plants and stones and the",{"entites":[]}],["customs of people. The dealers call him the father of fools, because he",{"entites":[]}],["is so easily cheated about a horse. Mahbub Ali says he is madder than",{"entites":[[36,46,"PERSON"],[36,46,"PERSON"],[36,46,"PERSON"]]}],["all other Sahibs.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh!' said Kim, and departed. His training had given him some small",{"entites":[[11,14,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"]]}],["knowledge of character, and he argued that fools are not given",{"entites":[]}],["information which leads to calling out eight thousand men, besides guns.",{"entites":[]}],["The Commander-in-Chief of all India does not talk, as Kim had heard him",{"entites":[[54,57,"PERSON"],[30,35,"LOC"],[54,57,"PERSON"],[30,35,"LOC"],[30,35,"LOC"],[54,57,"PERSON"]]}],["talk, to fools. Nor would Mahbub Ali's tone have changed, as it did",{"entites":[[26,36,"PERSON"],[26,36,"PERSON"],[26,36,"PERSON"]]}],["every time he mentioned the Colonel's name, if the Colonel had been a",{"entites":[]}],["fool. Consequently--and this set Kim to skipping--there was a mystery",{"entites":[[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"]]}],["somewhere, and Mahbub Ali probably spied for the Colonel much as Kim had",{"entites":[[15,25,"PERSON"],[15,25,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"],[15,25,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"]]}],["spied for Mahbub. And, like the horse-dealer, the Colonel evidently",{"entites":[[10,16,"PERSON"],[10,16,"PERSON"],[10,16,"PERSON"]]}],["respected people who did not show themselves to be too clever.",{"entites":[]}],["He rejoiced that he had not betrayed his knowledge of the Colonel's",{"entites":[]}],["house; and when, on his return to barracks, he discovered that no",{"entites":[]}],["cheroot-case had been left behind, he beamed with delight. Here was a",{"entites":[]}],["man after his own heart--a tortuous and indirect person playing a hidden",{"entites":[]}],["game. Well, if he could be a fool, so could Kim.",{"entites":[[44,47,"PERSON"],[44,47,"PERSON"],[44,47,"PERSON"]]}],["He showed nothing of his mind when Father Victor, for three long",{"entites":[[35,48,"PERSON"],[35,48,"PERSON"],[35,48,"PERSON"]]}],["mornings, discoursed to him of an entirely new set of gods and",{"entites":[]}],["godlings--notably of a goddess called Mary, who, he gathered, was one",{"entites":[[38,42,"PERSON"],[38,42,"PERSON"],[38,42,"PERSON"]]}],["with Bibi Miriam of Mahbub Ali's theology. He betrayed no emotion when,",{"entites":[[5,16,"PERSON"],[20,30,"PERSON"],[20,30,"PERSON"],[5,16,"PERSON"],[20,30,"PERSON"],[5,16,"PERSON"]]}],["after the lecture, Father Victor dragged him from shop to shop buying",{"entites":[[26,32,"PERSON"],[26,32,"PERSON"],[26,32,"PERSON"]]}],["articles of outfit, nor when envious drummer-boys kicked him because he",{"entites":[]}],["was going to a superior school did he complain, but awaited the play of",{"entites":[]}],["circumstances with an interested soul. Father Victor, good man, took him",{"entites":[[46,52,"PERSON"],[46,52,"PERSON"],[46,52,"PERSON"]]}],["to the station, put him into an empty second-class next to Colonel",{"entites":[]}],["Creighton's first, and bade him farewell with genuine feeling.",{"entites":[[0,9,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"]]}],["'They'll make a man o' you, O'Hara, at St. Xavier's--a white man, an', I",{"entites":[[39,49,"LOC"],[39,49,"LOC"],[39,49,"LOC"],[28,34,"PERSON"],[28,34,"PERSON"],[28,34,"PERSON"]]}],["hope, a good man. They know all about your comin', an' the Colonel will",{"entites":[]}],["see that ye're not lost or mislaid anywhere on the road. I've given you",{"entites":[]}],["a notion of religious matters,--at least I hope so,--and you'll",{"entites":[]}],["remember, when they ask you your religion, that you're a Cath'lic.",{"entites":[]}],["Better say Roman Cath'lic, tho' I'm not fond of the word.'",{"entites":[[11,21,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim lit a rank cigarette--he had been careful to buy a stock in the",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["bazar--and lay down to think. This solitary passage was very different",{"entites":[]}],["from that joyful down-journey in the third-class with the lama. 'Sahibs",{"entites":[]}],["get little pleasure of travel,' he reflected. 'Hai mai! I go from one",{"entites":[[47,54,"PERSON"],[47,54,"PERSON"]]}],["place to another as it might be a kick-ball. It is my kismet. No man",{"entites":[]}],["can escape his kismet. But I am to pray to Bibi Miriam and I am a",{"entites":[[43,54,"PERSON"],[43,54,"PERSON"],[43,54,"PERSON"]]}],["Sahib'--he looked at his boots ruefully. 'No; I am Kim. This is the",{"entites":[[51,54,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"]]}],["great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own",{"entites":[[39,42,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was",{"entites":[]}],["one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going",{"entites":[[54,59,"LOC"],[54,59,"LOC"],[54,59,"LOC"]]}],["southward to he knew not what fate.",{"entites":[]}],["Presently the Colonel sent for him, and talked for a long time. So far",{"entites":[]}],["as Kim could gather, he was to be diligent and enter the Survey of India",{"entites":[[67,72,"LOC"],[3,6,"PERSON"],[67,72,"LOC"],[3,6,"PERSON"],[3,6,"PERSON"],[67,72,"LOC"]]}],["as a chain-man. If he were very good, and passed the proper",{"entites":[]}],["examinations, he would be earning thirty rupees a month at seventeen",{"entites":[]}],["years old, and Colonel Creighton would see that he found a suitable",{"entites":[[23,32,"PERSON"],[23,32,"PERSON"],[23,32,"PERSON"]]}],["employment.",{"entites":[]}],["Kim pretended at first to understand perhaps one word in three of this",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["talk. Then the Colonel, seeing his mistake, turned to fluent and",{"entites":[]}],["picturesque Urdu and Kim was contented. No man could be a fool who knew",{"entites":[[21,24,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[12,16,"LOC"],[12,16,"LOC"],[12,16,"LOC"],[21,24,"PERSON"]]}],["the language so intimately, who moved so gently and silently, and whose",{"entites":[]}],["eyes were so different from the dull fat eyes of other Sahibs.",{"entites":[]}],["'Yes, and thou must learn how to make pictures of roads and mountains",{"entites":[]}],["and rivers--to carry these pictures in thy eye till a suitable time",{"entites":[]}],["comes to set them upon paper. Perhaps some day, when thou art a",{"entites":[]}],["chain-man, I may say to thee when we are working together: \"Go across",{"entites":[]}],["those hills and see what lies beyond.\" Then one will say: \"There are bad",{"entites":[]}],["people living in those hills who will slay the chain-man if he be seen",{"entites":[]}],["to look like a Sahib.\" What then?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim thought. Would it be safe to return the Colonel's lead?",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'I would tell what that other man had said.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But if I answered: \"I will give thee a hundred rupees for knowledge of",{"entites":[]}],["what is behind those hills--for a picture of a river and a little news",{"entites":[]}],["of what the people say in the villages there\"?'",{"entites":[]}],["'How can I tell? I am only a boy. Wait till I am a man.' Then, seeing",{"entites":[]}],["the Colonel's brow clouded, he went on: 'But I think I should in a few",{"entites":[]}],["days earn the hundred rupees.'",{"entites":[]}],["'By what road?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim shook his head resolutely. 'If I said how I would earn them, another",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["man might hear and forestall me. It is no good to sell knowledge for",{"entites":[]}],["nothing.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Tell now.' The Colonel held up a rupee. Kim's hand half reached towards",{"entites":[[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"]]}],["it, and dropped.",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay, Sahib; nay. I know the price that will be paid for the answer, but",{"entites":[[6,11,"PERSON"],[6,11,"PERSON"],[6,11,"PERSON"]]}],["I do not know why the question is asked.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Take it for a gift, then,' said Creighton, tossing it over. 'There is a",{"entites":[[33,42,"PERSON"],[33,42,"PERSON"],[33,42,"PERSON"]]}],["good spirit in thee. Do not let it be blunted at St. Xavier's. There are",{"entites":[[49,59,"LOC"],[49,59,"LOC"],[49,59,"LOC"]]}],["many boys there who despise the black men.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Their mothers were bazar-women,' said Kim. He knew well there is no",{"entites":[[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["hatred like that of the half-caste for his brother-in-law.",{"entites":[]}],["'True; but thou art a Sahib and the son of a Sahib. Therefore, do not at",{"entites":[[22,27,"PERSON"],[22,27,"PERSON"],[22,27,"PERSON"]]}],["any time be led to contemn the black men. I have known boys newly",{"entites":[]}],["entered into the service of the Government who feigned not to understand",{"entites":[]}],["the talk or the customs of black men. Their pay was cut for ignorance.",{"entites":[]}],["There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.'",{"entites":[]}],["Several times in the course of the long twenty-four hours' run south",{"entites":[]}],["did the Colonel send for Kim, always developing this latter text.",{"entites":[[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"]]}],["'We be all on one lead-rope, then,' said Kim at last, 'the Colonel,",{"entites":[[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"]]}],["Mahbub Ali, and I--when I become a chain-man. He will use me as Mahbub",{"entites":[[0,10,"PERSON"],[64,74,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[64,74,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[64,74,"PERSON"]]}],["Ali employed me, I think. That is good, if it allows me to return to the",{"entites":[]}],["road again. This clothing grows no easier by wear.'",{"entites":[]}],["When they came to the crowded Lucknow station there was no sign of the",{"entites":[[30,37,"LOC"],[30,37,"LOC"],[30,37,"LOC"]]}],["lama. He swallowed his disappointment, while the Colonel bundled him",{"entites":[]}],["into a ticca-garri with his neat belongings and dispatched him alone to",{"entites":[]}],["St. Xavier's.",{"entites":[[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"]]}],["'I do not say farewell, because we shall meet again,' he cried. 'Again,",{"entites":[]}],["and many times, if thou art one of good spirit. But thou art not yet",{"entites":[]}],["tried.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Not when I brought thee'--Kim actually dared to use the tum of",{"entites":[[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"]]}],["equals--'a white stallion's pedigree that night?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Much is gained by forgetting, little brother,' said the Colonel, with a",{"entites":[]}],["look that pierced through Kim's shoulder-blades as he scuttled into the",{"entites":[[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"]]}],["carriage.",{"entites":[]}],["It took him nearly five minutes to recover. Then he sniffed the new air",{"entites":[]}],["appreciatively. 'A rich city,' he said. 'Richer than Lahore. How good",{"entites":[[53,59,"LOC"],[53,59,"LOC"],[53,59,"LOC"]]}],["the bazars must be! Coachman, drive me a little through the bazars",{"entites":[[20,28,"PERSON"]]}],["here.'",{"entites":[]}],["'My order is to take thee to the school.' The driver used the 'thou,'",{"entites":[]}],["which is rudeness when applied to a white man. In the clearest and most",{"entites":[]}],["fluent vernacular Kim pointed out his error, climbed on to the box-seat,",{"entites":[[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"]]}],["and, perfect understanding established, drove for a couple of hours up",{"entites":[]}],["and down, estimating, comparing, and enjoying. There is no city--except",{"entites":[]}],["Bombay, the queen of all--more beautiful in her garish style than",{"entites":[[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["Lucknow, whether you see her from the bridge over the river, or from the",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["top of the Imambara looking down on the gilt umbrellas of the Chutter",{"entites":[]}],["Munzil, and the trees in which the town is bedded. Kings have adorned",{"entites":[]}],["her with fantastic buildings, endowed her with charities, crammed her",{"entites":[]}],["with pensioners, and drenched her with blood. She is the centre of all",{"entites":[]}],["idleness, intrigue, and luxury, and shares with Delhi the claim to talk",{"entites":[[48,53,"LOC"],[48,53,"LOC"],[48,53,"LOC"]]}],["the only pure Urdu.",{"entites":[[14,18,"LOC"],[14,18,"LOC"],[14,18,"LOC"]]}],["'A fair city--a beautiful city.' The driver, as a Lucknow man, was",{"entites":[[50,57,"LOC"],[50,57,"LOC"],[50,57,"LOC"]]}],["pleased with the compliment, and told Kim many astounding things where",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["an English guide would have talked of the Mutiny.",{"entites":[[3,10,"LOC"],[3,10,"LOC"],[3,10,"LOC"]]}],["'Now we will go to the school,' said Kim at last. The great old school",{"entites":[[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"]]}],["of St. Xavier's in Partibus, block on block of low white buildings,",{"entites":[[19,27,"LOC"],[3,13,"PERSON"],[19,27,"LOC"],[19,27,"LOC"],[3,13,"PERSON"],[3,13,"PERSON"]]}],["stands in vast grounds over against the Gumti River, at some distance",{"entites":[[40,45,"LOC"],[40,45,"LOC"],[40,45,"LOC"]]}],["from the city.",{"entites":[]}],["'What like of folk are they within?' said Kim.",{"entites":[[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"]]}],["'Young Sahibs--all devils; but to speak truth, and I drive many of them",{"entites":[]}],["to and fro from the railway station, I have never seen one that had in",{"entites":[]}],["him the making of a more perfect devil than thou--this young Sahib whom",{"entites":[[61,66,"PERSON"],[61,66,"PERSON"],[61,66,"PERSON"]]}],["I am now driving.'",{"entites":[]}],["Naturally, for he was never trained to consider them in any way",{"entites":[]}],["improper, Kim had passed the time of day with one or two frivolous",{"entites":[[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"]]}],["ladies at upper windows in a certain street, and naturally, in the",{"entites":[]}],["exchange of compliments, had acquitted himself well. He was about to",{"entites":[]}],["acknowledge the driver's last insolence, when his eye--it was growing",{"entites":[]}],["dusk--caught a figure sitting by one of the white plaster gate-pillars",{"entites":[]}],["in the long sweep of wall.",{"entites":[]}],["'Stop!' he cried. 'Stay here! I do not go to the school at once.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But what is to pay me for this coming and recoming?' said the driver",{"entites":[]}],["petulantly. 'Is the boy mad? Last time it was a dancing-girl. This time",{"entites":[]}],["it is a priest.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim was in the road headlong, patting the dusty feet beneath the dirty",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["yellow robe.",{"entites":[]}],["'I have waited here a day and a half,' the lama's level voice began.",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay, I had a disciple with me. He that was my friend at the Temple of",{"entites":[]}],["the Tirthankers gave me a guide for this journey. I came from Benares in",{"entites":[[62,69,"LOC"],[62,69,"LOC"],[62,69,"LOC"]]}],["the train, when thy letter was given me. Yes, I am well fed. I need",{"entites":[]}],["nothing.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But why didst thou not stay with the Kulu woman, O Holy One? In what",{"entites":[[38,42,"LOC"],[38,42,"LOC"],[38,42,"LOC"]]}],["way didst thou get to Benares? My heart has been heavy since we parted.'",{"entites":[[22,29,"LOC"],[22,29,"LOC"],[22,29,"LOC"]]}],["'The woman wearied me by constant flux of talk and requiring charms for",{"entites":[]}],["children. I separated myself from that company, permitting her to",{"entites":[]}],["acquire merit by gifts. She is at least a woman of open hands, and I",{"entites":[]}],["made a promise to return to her house if need arose. Then, perceiving",{"entites":[]}],["myself alone in this great and terrible world, I bethought me of the",{"entites":[]}],["te-rain to Benares, where I knew one abode in the Tirthankers' Temple",{"entites":[[11,18,"LOC"],[11,18,"LOC"],[11,18,"LOC"]]}],["who was a Seeker, even as I.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ah! Thy River,' said Kim. 'I had forgotten the River.'",{"entites":[[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"]]}],["'So soon, my chela? I have never forgotten it; but when I had left thee",{"entites":[]}],["it seemed better that I should go to the temple and take counsel, for,",{"entites":[]}],["look you, India is very large, and it may be that wise men before us,",{"entites":[[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"]]}],["some two or three, have left a record of the place of our River. There",{"entites":[]}],["is debate in the Temple of the Tirthankers on this matter; some saying",{"entites":[]}],["one thing, and some another. They are courteous folk.'",{"entites":[]}],["'So be it; but what dost thou do now?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I acquire merit in that I help thee, my chela, to wisdom. The priest of",{"entites":[]}],["that body of men who serve the Red Bull wrote me that all should be as I",{"entites":[]}],["desired for thee. I sent the money to suffice for one year, and then I",{"entites":[]}],["came, as thou seest me, to watch for thee going up into the Gates of",{"entites":[]}],["Learning. A day and a half have I waited--not because I was led by any",{"entites":[]}],["affection towards thee--that is not part of the Way--but, as they said",{"entites":[]}],["at the Tirthankers' Temple, because, money having been paid for",{"entites":[]}],["learning, it was right that I should oversee the end of the matter. They",{"entites":[]}],["resolved my doubts most clearly. I had a fear that, perhaps, I came",{"entites":[]}],["because I wished to see thee--misguided by the red mist of affection. 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Do not altogether go away.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have considered that also,' the lama replied, in a shaking voice. 'It",{"entites":[]}],["is manifest that from time to time I shall acquire merit--if before that",{"entites":[]}],["I have not found my River--by assuring myself that thy feet are set on",{"entites":[]}],["wisdom. What they will teach thee I do not know, but the priest wrote me",{"entites":[]}],["that no son of a Sahib in all India will be better taught than thou. So",{"entites":[[30,35,"LOC"],[30,35,"LOC"],[30,35,"LOC"]]}],["from time to time, therefore, I will come again. May be thou wilt be",{"entites":[]}],["such a Sahib as he who gave me these spectacles'--the lama wiped them",{"entites":[[7,12,"PERSON"],[7,12,"PERSON"],[7,12,"PERSON"]]}],["elaborately--'in the Wonder House at Lahore. That is my hope, for he was",{"entites":[[37,43,"LOC"],[37,43,"LOC"],[37,43,"LOC"]]}],["a Fountain of Wisdom--wiser than many abbots. . . . 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There were boys of fifteen who had",{"entites":[]}],["spent a day and a half on an islet in the middle of a flooded river,",{"entites":[]}],["taking charge, as by right, of a camp of frantic pilgrims returning from",{"entites":[]}],["a shrine; there were seniors who had requisitioned a chance-met Rajah's",{"entites":[]}],["elephant, in the name of St. Francis Xavier, when the rains once blotted",{"entites":[[25,43,"PERSON"],[25,43,"PERSON"],[25,43,"PERSON"]]}],["out the cart-track that led to their father's estate, and had all but",{"entites":[]}],["lost the huge beast in a quicksand. 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They gave him a white drill suit as the",{"entites":[]}],["weather warmed, and he rejoiced in the new-found bodily comforts as he",{"entites":[]}],["rejoiced to use his sharpened mind over the tasks they set him. His",{"entites":[]}],["quickness would have delighted an English master; but at St. Xavier's",{"entites":[[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"]]}],["they know the first rush of minds developed by sun and surroundings, as",{"entites":[]}],["well as they know the half-collapse that sets in at twenty-two or",{"entites":[]}],["twenty-three.",{"entites":[]}],["None the less he remembered to hold himself lowly. When tales were told",{"entites":[]}],["of hot nights, Kim did not sweep the board with his reminiscences; for",{"entites":[[15,18,"PERSON"],[15,18,"PERSON"],[15,18,"PERSON"]]}],["St. Xavier's looks down on boys who 'go native altogether.' One must",{"entites":[[4,10,"PERSON"],[4,10,"PERSON"],[4,10,"PERSON"]]}],["never forget that one is a Sahib, and that some day, when examinations",{"entites":[]}],["are passed, one will command natives. Kim made a note of this, for he",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["began to understand where examinations led.",{"entites":[]}],["Then came the holidays from August to October--the long holidays imposed",{"entites":[]}],["by the heat and the rains. 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A boy's holiday was his own property,--of so much",{"entites":[]}],["the talk of his companions had advised him,--and a barrack-school would",{"entites":[]}],["be torment after St. Xavier's. Moreover--this was magic worth anything",{"entites":[[21,27,"PERSON"],[21,27,"PERSON"],[21,27,"PERSON"]]}],["else--he could write. In three months he had discovered how men can",{"entites":[]}],["speak to each other without a third party, at the cost of half an anna",{"entites":[]}],["and a little knowledge. No word had come from the lama, but there",{"entites":[]}],["remained the Road. 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Thou art full young, as Sahibs go, for this devilry.'",{"entites":[[37,43,"PERSON"],[37,43,"PERSON"],[37,43,"PERSON"]]}],["'Oh, she? She is the daughter of a certain schoolmaster of a regiment in",{"entites":[]}],["the cantonments. He has beaten me twice because I went over their wall",{"entites":[]}],["in these clothes. Now I would go as a gardener's boy. Old men are very",{"entites":[]}],["jealous.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is true. Hold thy face still while I dab on the juice.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Not too black, Naikan. I would not appear to her as a hubshi' (nigger).",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, love makes nought of these things. And how old is she?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Twelve years, I think,' said the shameless Kim. 'Spread it also on the",{"entites":[[44,47,"PERSON"],[44,47,"PERSON"],[44,47,"PERSON"]]}],["breast. It may be her father will tear my clothes off me and if I am",{"entites":[]}],["piebald--' he laughed.",{"entites":[]}],["The girl worked busily, dabbing a twist of cloth into a little saucer of",{"entites":[]}],["brown dye that holds longer than any walnut juice.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now send out and get me a cloth for the turban. Woe is me, my head is",{"entites":[]}],["all unshaved! And he will surely knock off my turban.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I am not a barber, but I will make shift. Thou wast born to be a",{"entites":[]}],["breaker of hearts! All this disguise for one evening? Remember, the",{"entites":[]}],["stuff does not wash away.' She shook with laughter till her bracelets",{"entites":[]}],["and anklets jingled. 'But who is to pay me for this? Huneefa herself",{"entites":[[53,60,"PERSON"],[53,60,"PERSON"],[53,60,"PERSON"]]}],["could not have given thee better stuff.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Trust in the Gods, my sister,' said Kim gravely screwing his face round",{"entites":[[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"]]}],["as the stain dried. 'Besides, hast thou ever helped to paint a Sahib",{"entites":[]}],["thus before?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Never indeed. But a jest is not money.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is worth much more.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Child, thou art beyond all dispute the most shameless son of Shaitan",{"entites":[[62,69,"PERSON"],[62,69,"PERSON"],[62,69,"PERSON"]]}],["that I have ever known to take up a poor girl's time with this play, and",{"entites":[]}],["then to say: \"Is not the jest enough?\" Thou wilt go very far in this",{"entites":[]}],["world.' She gave the dancing-girls' salutation in mockery.",{"entites":[]}],["'All one. Make haste and rough-cut my head.' 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His evasion, of course, was the height of",{"entites":[]}],["insolence, but it argued some resource and nerve.",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub's eyes twinkled as he reined out into the centre of the cramped",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["little plain, where none could come near unseen.",{"entites":[]}],["'\"The Friend of the Stars, who is the Friend of all the World--\"'",{"entites":[]}],["'What is this?'",{"entites":[]}],["'A name we give him in Lahore city. \"The Friend of all the World takes",{"entites":[[23,29,"LOC"],[23,29,"LOC"],[23,29,"LOC"]]}],["leave to go to his own places. He will come back upon the appointed day.",{"entites":[]}],["Let the box and the bedding-roll be sent for; and if there has been a",{"entites":[]}],["fault, let the Hand of Friendship turn aside the Whip of Calamity.\"",{"entites":[]}],["There is yet a little more, but--'",{"entites":[]}],["'No matter, read.'",{"entites":[]}],["'\"Certain things are not known to those who eat with forks. It is better",{"entites":[]}],["to eat with both hands for a while. Speak soft words to those who do not",{"entites":[]}],["understand this that the return may be propitious.\" Now the manner in",{"entites":[]}],["which that was cast is of course the work of the letter-writer, but see",{"entites":[]}],["how wisely the boy has devised the matter of it so that no hint is given",{"entites":[]}],["except to those who know!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Is this the Hand of Friendship to avert the Whip of Calamity?' laughed",{"entites":[]}],["the Colonel.",{"entites":[]}],["'See how wise is the boy. He would go back to the Road again, as I said.",{"entites":[[50,54,"LOC"],[50,54,"LOC"],[50,54,"LOC"]]}],["Not knowing yet thy trade--'",{"entites":[]}],["'I am not quite sure of that,' the Colonel muttered.",{"entites":[]}],["'He turns to me to make a peace between you. Is he not wise? He says he",{"entites":[]}],["will return. He is but perfecting his knowledge. Think, Sahib! He has",{"entites":[[56,61,"PERSON"],[56,61,"PERSON"],[56,61,"PERSON"]]}],["been three months at the school. And he is not mouthed to that bit. For",{"entites":[]}],["my part, I rejoice: the pony learns the game.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay, but another time he must not go alone.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Why? He went alone before he came under the Colonel Sahib's protection.",{"entites":[[53,58,"PERSON"],[53,58,"PERSON"],[53,58,"PERSON"]]}],["When he comes to the Great Game he must go alone--alone, and at peril of",{"entites":[]}],["his head. Then, if he spits, or sneezes, or sits down other than as the",{"entites":[]}],["people do whom he watches, he may be slain. Why hinder him now? Remember",{"entites":[]}],["how the Persians say: The jackal that lives in the wilds of Mazanderan",{"entites":[[60,70,"LOC"],[60,70,"LOC"],[60,70,"LOC"]]}],["can only be caught by the hounds of Mazanderan.'",{"entites":[]}],["'True. It is true, Mahbub Ali. And if he comes to no harm, I do not",{"entites":[[19,29,"PERSON"],[19,29,"PERSON"],[19,29,"PERSON"]]}],["desire anything better. But it is great insolence on his part.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He does not tell me, even, whither he goes,' said Mahbub. 'He is no",{"entites":[[51,57,"PERSON"],[51,57,"PERSON"],[51,57,"PERSON"]]}],["fool. When his time is accomplished he will come to me. It is time the",{"entites":[]}],["healer of pearls took him in hand. He ripens too quickly--as Sahibs",{"entites":[[61,67,"PERSON"],[61,67,"PERSON"],[61,67,"PERSON"]]}],["reckon.'",{"entites":[]}],["This prophecy was fulfilled to the letter a month later. Mahbub had gone",{"entites":[[57,63,"PERSON"],[57,63,"PERSON"],[57,63,"PERSON"]]}],["down to Umballa to bring up a fresh consignment of horses, and Kim met",{"entites":[[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"],[8,15,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"]]}],["him on the Kalka road at dusk riding alone, begged an alms of him, was",{"entites":[[11,16,"LOC"],[11,16,"LOC"],[11,16,"LOC"]]}],["sworn at, and replied in English. There was nobody within earshot to",{"entites":[[25,32,"LOC"],[25,32,"LOC"],[25,32,"LOC"]]}],["hear Mahbub's gasp of amazement.",{"entites":[[5,11,"PERSON"],[5,11,"PERSON"],[5,11,"PERSON"]]}],["'Oho! And where hast thou been?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Up and down--down and up.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Come under a tree, out of the wet, and tell.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I stayed for a while with an old man near Umballa; anon with a",{"entites":[[43,50,"LOC"],[43,50,"LOC"],[43,50,"LOC"]]}],["household of my acquaintance in Umballa. With one of these I went as far",{"entites":[[32,39,"LOC"],[32,39,"LOC"],[32,39,"LOC"]]}],["as Delhi to the southward. That is a wondrous city. Then I drove a",{"entites":[[3,8,"LOC"],[3,8,"LOC"],[3,8,"LOC"]]}],["bullock for a teli (an oilman) coming north; but I heard of a great",{"entites":[]}],["feast forward in Puttiala, and thither went I in the company of a",{"entites":[[17,25,"LOC"],[17,25,"LOC"],[17,25,"LOC"]]}],["firework-maker. It was a great feast' (Kim rubbed his stomach). 'I saw",{"entites":[[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["Rajahs, and elephants with gold and silver trappings; and they lit all",{"entites":[]}],["the fireworks at once, whereby eleven men were killed, my firework-maker",{"entites":[]}],["among them, and I was blown across a tent but took no harm. Then I came",{"entites":[]}],["back to the rel with a Sikh horseman, to whom I was groom for my bread;",{"entites":[]}],["and so here.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Shabash!' said Mahbub Ali.",{"entites":[[16,26,"PERSON"],[16,26,"PERSON"],[16,26,"PERSON"]]}],["'But what does the Colonel Sahib say? I do not wish to be beaten.'",{"entites":[[27,32,"PERSON"],[27,32,"PERSON"],[27,32,"PERSON"]]}],["'The Hand of Friendship has averted the Whip of Calamity; but another",{"entites":[]}],["time, when thou takest the Road it will be with me. This is too early.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Late enough for me. I have learned to read and to write English a",{"entites":[[57,64,"LOC"],[57,64,"LOC"],[57,64,"LOC"]]}],["little at the madrissah. I shall soon be altogether a Sahib.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Hear him!' laughed Mahbub, looking at the little drenched figure",{"entites":[[20,26,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"]]}],["dancing in the wet. 'Salaam--Sahib,' and he saluted ironically. 'Well,",{"entites":[[29,34,"PERSON"],[29,34,"PERSON"],[29,34,"PERSON"]]}],["art tired of the Road, or wilt thou come on to Umballa with me and work",{"entites":[[17,21,"LOC"],[17,21,"LOC"],[47,54,"LOC"],[47,54,"LOC"],[47,54,"LOC"],[17,21,"LOC"]]}],["back with the horses?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I come with thee, Mahbub Ali.'",{"entites":[[19,29,"PERSON"],[19,29,"PERSON"],[19,29,"PERSON"]]}],["CHAPTER VIII",{"entites":[]}],["          'Something I owe to the soil that grew--",{"entites":[]}],["             More to the life that fed--",{"entites":[]}],["           But most to Allah Who gave me two",{"entites":[]}],["             Separate sides to my head.",{"entites":[]}],["           I would go without shirts or shoes,",{"entites":[]}],["             Friends, tobacco or bread",{"entites":[]}],["           Sooner than for an instant lose",{"entites":[]}],["             Either side of my head.'",{"entites":[]}],["'THEN in God's Name take blue for red,' said Mahbub, alluding to the",{"entites":[[45,51,"PERSON"],[45,51,"PERSON"],[45,51,"PERSON"]]}],["Hindu colour of Kim's disreputable turban.",{"entites":[[16,19,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim countered with the old proverb, 'I will change my faith and my",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["bedding, but thou must pay for it.'",{"entites":[]}],["The dealer laughed till he nearly fell from his horse. At a shop on the",{"entites":[]}],["outskirts of the city the change was made, and Kim stood up, externally",{"entites":[[47,50,"PERSON"],[47,50,"PERSON"],[47,50,"PERSON"]]}],["at least, a Mohammedan.",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub hired a room over against the railway station, sent for a cooked",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["meal of the finest with almond-curd sweetmeats (balushai we call it) and",{"entites":[]}],["fine-chopped Lucknow tobacco.",{"entites":[[13,20,"LOC"],[13,20,"LOC"],[13,20,"LOC"]]}],["'This is better than some other meat that I ate with the Sikh,' said",{"entites":[]}],["Kim, grinning as he squatted, 'and assuredly they give no such victuals",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["at my madrissah.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have a desire to hear of that same madrissah.' Mahbub stuffed himself",{"entites":[[50,56,"PERSON"],[50,56,"PERSON"],[50,56,"PERSON"]]}],["with great boluses of spiced mutton fried in fat with cabbage and",{"entites":[]}],["golden-brown onions. 'But tell me first, altogether and truthfully, the",{"entites":[]}],["manner of thy escape. For, O Friend of all the World,'--he loosed his",{"entites":[]}],["cracking belt,--'I do not think it is often that a Sahib and the son of",{"entites":[[51,56,"PERSON"],[51,56,"PERSON"],[51,56,"PERSON"]]}],["a Sahib runs away from there.'",{"entites":[[2,7,"PERSON"],[2,7,"PERSON"],[2,7,"PERSON"]]}],["'How should they? They do not know the land. It was nothing,' said Kim,",{"entites":[[67,70,"PERSON"],[67,70,"PERSON"],[67,70,"PERSON"]]}],["and began his tale. When he came to the disguisement and the interview",{"entites":[]}],["with the girl in the bazar, Mahbub Ali's gravity went from him. He",{"entites":[[28,38,"PERSON"],[28,38,"PERSON"],[28,38,"PERSON"]]}],["laughed aloud and beat his hand on his thigh.",{"entites":[]}],["'Shabash! Shabash! Oh, well done, little one! What will the healer of",{"entites":[]}],["turquoises say to this? Now, slowly, let us hear what befell",{"entites":[]}],["afterwards--step by step, omitting nothing.'",{"entites":[]}],["Step by step then, Kim told his adventures between coughs as the",{"entites":[[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"]]}],["full-flavoured tobacco caught his lungs.",{"entites":[]}],["'I said,' growled Mahbub Ali to himself, 'I said it was the pony",{"entites":[[18,28,"PERSON"],[18,28,"PERSON"],[18,28,"PERSON"]]}],["breaking out to play polo. The fruit is ripe already--except that he",{"entites":[]}],["must learn his distances and his pacings, and his rods and his",{"entites":[]}],["compasses. Listen now. I have turned aside the Colonel's whip from thy",{"entites":[]}],["skin, and that is no small service.'",{"entites":[]}],["'True.' Kim puffed serenely. 'That is all true.'",{"entites":[[8,11,"PERSON"],[8,11,"PERSON"],[8,11,"PERSON"]]}],["'But it is not to be thought that this running out and in is any way",{"entites":[]}],["good.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It was my holiday, Hajji. I was a slave for many weeks. Why should I",{"entites":[[20,25,"PERSON"],[20,25,"PERSON"],[20,25,"PERSON"]]}],["not run away when the school was shut? Look, too, how I, living upon my",{"entites":[]}],["friends or working for my bread, as I did with the Sikh, have saved the",{"entites":[]}],["Colonel Sahib a great expense.'",{"entites":[[8,13,"PERSON"],[8,13,"PERSON"],[8,13,"PERSON"]]}],["Mahbub's lips twitched under his well-pruned Mohammedan moustache.",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["'What are a few rupees'--the Pathan threw out his open hand",{"entites":[[29,35,"PERSON"],[29,35,"PERSON"],[29,35,"PERSON"]]}],["carelessly--'to the Colonel Sahib? He spends them for a purpose, not in",{"entites":[[28,33,"PERSON"],[28,33,"PERSON"],[28,33,"PERSON"]]}],["any way for love of thee.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That,' said Kim slowly, 'I knew a very long time ago.'",{"entites":[[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"]]}],["'Who told?'",{"entites":[]}],["'The Colonel Sahib himself. Not in those many words, but plainly enough",{"entites":[[13,18,"PERSON"],[13,18,"PERSON"],[13,18,"PERSON"]]}],["for one who is not altogether a mud-head. Yea, he told me in the te-rain",{"entites":[]}],["when we went down to Lucknow.'",{"entites":[[21,28,"LOC"],[21,28,"LOC"],[21,28,"LOC"]]}],["'Be it so. Then I will tell thee more, Friend of all the World, though",{"entites":[]}],["in the telling I lend thee my head.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It was forfeit to me,' said Kim, with deep relish, 'in Umballa, when",{"entites":[[29,32,"PERSON"],[56,63,"LOC"],[56,63,"LOC"],[56,63,"LOC"],[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"]]}],["thou didst pick me up on the horse after the drummer-boy beat me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Speak a little plainer. All the world may tell lies save thou and I.",{"entites":[]}],["For equally is thy life forfeit to me if I chose to raise my finger",{"entites":[]}],["here.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And this is known to me also,' said Kim, readjusting the live",{"entites":[[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"]]}],["charcoal-ball on the weed. 'It is a very sure tie between us. Indeed thy",{"entites":[]}],["hold is surer even than mine; for who would miss a boy beaten to death,",{"entites":[]}],["or, it may be, thrown into a well by the roadside? Many people here and",{"entites":[]}],["in Simla and across the passes behind the Hills would, on the other",{"entites":[[3,8,"LOC"],[42,47,"LOC"],[42,47,"LOC"],[3,8,"LOC"],[42,47,"LOC"],[3,8,"LOC"]]}],["hand, say: \"What has come to Mahbub Ali,\" if he were found dead among",{"entites":[[29,39,"PERSON"],[29,39,"PERSON"],[29,39,"PERSON"]]}],["his horses. Surely too the Colonel Sahib would make inquiries. But",{"entites":[[35,40,"PERSON"],[35,40,"PERSON"],[35,40,"PERSON"]]}],["again,'--Kim's face puckered with cunning,--'he would not make overlong",{"entites":[[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"]]}],["inquiry, lest people should ask: \"What has this Colonel Sahib to do with",{"entites":[[56,61,"PERSON"],[56,61,"PERSON"],[56,61,"PERSON"]]}],["that horse-dealer?\" But I--if I lived--'",{"entites":[]}],["'As thou wouldst surely die--'",{"entites":[]}],["'It may be; but I say, if I lived, I, and I alone, would know that one",{"entites":[]}],["had come by night, as a common thief perhaps, to Mahbub Ali's bulkhead",{"entites":[[49,59,"PERSON"],[49,59,"PERSON"],[49,59,"PERSON"]]}],["in the serai, and there had slain him, either before or after that thief",{"entites":[]}],["had made a full search into his saddle-bags and between the soles of his",{"entites":[]}],["slippers. Is that news to tell to the Colonel, or would he say to me--(I",{"entites":[]}],["have not forgotten when he sent me back for a cigar-case that he had not",{"entites":[]}],["left behind him)--\"What is Mahbub Ali to me?\"'",{"entites":[[27,37,"PERSON"],[27,37,"PERSON"],[27,37,"PERSON"]]}],["Up went a gout of heavy smoke. There was a long pause; then Mahbub Ali",{"entites":[[60,70,"PERSON"],[60,70,"PERSON"],[60,70,"PERSON"]]}],["spoke in admiration: 'And with these things on thy mind, dost thou lie",{"entites":[]}],["down and rise again among all the Sahibs' little sons at the madrissah",{"entites":[]}],["and meekly take instruction from thy teachers?'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is an order,' said Kim blandly. 'Who am I to dispute an order?'",{"entites":[[23,26,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"]]}],["'A most finished son of Eblis,' said Mahbub Ali. 'But what is this tale",{"entites":[[37,47,"PERSON"],[37,47,"PERSON"],[37,47,"PERSON"]]}],["of the thief and the search?'",{"entites":[]}],["'That which I saw,' said Kim, 'the night that my lama and I lay next thy",{"entites":[[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"]]}],["place in the Kashmir Serai. The door was left unlocked, which I think is",{"entites":[[13,26,"LOC"],[13,26,"LOC"],[13,26,"LOC"]]}],["not thy custom, Mahbub. He came in as one assured that thou wouldst not",{"entites":[[16,22,"PERSON"],[16,22,"PERSON"],[16,22,"PERSON"]]}],["soon return. My eye was against a knot-hole in the plank. He searched as",{"entites":[]}],["it were for something--not a rug, not stirrups, nor a bridle, nor brass",{"entites":[]}],["pots--something little and most carefully hid. Else why did he prick",{"entites":[]}],["with an iron between the soles of thy slippers?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ha!' Mahbub Ali smiled gently. 'And seeing these things, what tale",{"entites":[[6,16,"PERSON"],[6,16,"PERSON"],[6,16,"PERSON"]]}],["didst thou fashion to thyself, Well of the Truth?'",{"entites":[]}],["'None. I put my hand upon my amulet, which lies always next to my skin,",{"entites":[]}],["and, remembering the pedigree of a white stallion that I had bitten out",{"entites":[]}],["of a piece of Mussalmani bread, I went away to Umballa perceiving that a",{"entites":[[14,24,"PERSON"],[14,24,"PERSON"],[47,54,"LOC"],[47,54,"LOC"],[14,24,"PERSON"],[47,54,"LOC"]]}],["heavy trust was laid upon me. At that hour, had I chosen, thy head was",{"entites":[]}],["forfeit. It needed only to say to that man, \"I have here a paper",{"entites":[]}],["concerning a horse which I cannot read.\" And then?' Kim peered at Mahbub",{"entites":[[52,55,"PERSON"],[66,72,"PERSON"],[66,72,"PERSON"],[66,72,"PERSON"],[52,55,"PERSON"],[52,55,"PERSON"]]}],["under his eyebrows.",{"entites":[]}],["'Then thou wouldst have drunk water twice--perhaps thrice, afterwards. I",{"entites":[]}],["do not think more than thrice,' said Mahbub simply.",{"entites":[[37,43,"PERSON"],[37,43,"PERSON"],[37,43,"PERSON"]]}],["'It is true. I thought of that a little, but most I thought that I loved",{"entites":[]}],["thee, Mahbub. Therefore I went to Umballa, as thou knowest, but (and",{"entites":[[34,41,"LOC"],[6,12,"PERSON"],[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"],[6,12,"PERSON"],[6,12,"PERSON"]]}],["this thou dost not know) I lay hid in the garden-grass to see what",{"entites":[]}],["Colonel Creighton Sahib might do upon reading the white stallion's",{"entites":[[8,23,"PERSON"],[8,23,"PERSON"],[8,23,"PERSON"]]}],["pedigree.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And what did he?' for Kim had bitten off the conversation.",{"entites":[[23,26,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"]]}],["'Dost thou give news for love, or dost thou sell it?' Kim asked.",{"entites":[[54,57,"PERSON"],[54,57,"PERSON"],[54,57,"PERSON"]]}],["'I sell and--I buy.' Mahbub took a four-anna piece out of his belt and",{"entites":[[21,27,"PERSON"],[21,27,"PERSON"],[21,27,"PERSON"]]}],["held it up.",{"entites":[]}],["'Eight!' said Kim, mechanically following the huckster instinct of the",{"entites":[[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"]]}],["East.",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub laughed, and put away the coin. 'It is too easy to deal in that",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["market, Friend of all the World. Tell me for love. Our lives lie in each",{"entites":[]}],["other's hand.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Very good. I saw the Jang-i-Lat Sahib (the Commander-in-Chief) come to",{"entites":[[22,38,"PERSON"],[22,38,"PERSON"],[22,38,"PERSON"]]}],["a big dinner. I saw him in Creighton Sahib's office. I saw the two read",{"entites":[[27,42,"LOC"],[27,42,"LOC"],[27,42,"LOC"]]}],["the white stallion's pedigree. I heard the very orders given for the",{"entites":[]}],["opening of a great war.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Hah!' Mahbub nodded with deepest eyes afire. The game is well played.",{"entites":[[7,13,"PERSON"],[7,13,"PERSON"],[7,13,"PERSON"]]}],["That war is done now, and the evil, we hope, nipped before the",{"entites":[]}],["flower--thanks to me--and thee. What didst thou later?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I made the news as it were a hook to catch me victual and honour among",{"entites":[]}],["the villagers in a village whose priest drugged my lama. But I bore away",{"entites":[]}],["the old man's purse, and the Brahmin found nothing. So next morning he",{"entites":[]}],["was angry. Ho! Ho! And I also used the news when I fell into the hands",{"entites":[[11,13,"PERSON"],[15,17,"PERSON"],[11,13,"PERSON"],[15,17,"PERSON"],[11,13,"PERSON"],[15,17,"PERSON"]]}],["of that white regiment with their Bull!'",{"entites":[]}],["'That was foolishness.' Mahbub scowled. 'News is not meant to be thrown",{"entites":[[24,30,"PERSON"],[24,30,"PERSON"],[24,30,"PERSON"]]}],["about like dung-cakes, but used sparingly--like bhang.'",{"entites":[]}],["'So I think now, and, moreover, it did me no sort of good. But that was",{"entites":[]}],["very long ago,'--he made as to brush it all away with a thin brown",{"entites":[]}],["hand,--'and since then, and especially in the nights under the punkah at",{"entites":[]}],["the madrissah, I have thought very greatly.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Is it permitted to ask whither the Heaven-born's thought might have",{"entites":[]}],["led?' said Mahbub, with an elaborate sarcasm, smoothing his scarlet",{"entites":[[11,17,"PERSON"],[11,17,"PERSON"],[11,17,"PERSON"]]}],["beard.",{"entites":[]}],["'It is permitted,' said Kim, and threw back the very tone. 'They say at",{"entites":[[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["Nucklao that no Sahib must tell a black man that he has made a fault.'",{"entites":[[16,21,"PERSON"],[16,21,"PERSON"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[16,21,"PERSON"]]}],["Mahbub's hand shot into his bosom, for to call a Pathan a 'black man'",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["(kala admi) is a blood-insult. Then he remembered and laughed. 'Speak,",{"entites":[]}],["Sahib: thy black man hears.'",{"entites":[[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"]]}],["'But,' said Kim, 'I am not a Sahib, and I say I made a fault when I",{"entites":[[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["cursed thee, Mahbub Ali, on the day at Umballa I thought I was betrayed",{"entites":[[39,46,"LOC"],[13,23,"PERSON"],[13,23,"PERSON"],[39,46,"LOC"],[39,46,"LOC"],[13,23,"PERSON"]]}],["by a Pathan. I was senseless; for I was but newly caught, and I wished",{"entites":[]}],["to kill that low-caste drummer-boy. I say now, Hajji, that it was well",{"entites":[[47,52,"PERSON"],[47,52,"PERSON"],[47,52,"PERSON"]]}],["done; and I see my road all clear before me to a good service. I will",{"entites":[]}],["stay in the madrissah till I am ripe.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Well said. Especially are distances and numbers and the manner of using",{"entites":[]}],["compasses to be learned in that game. One waits in the Hills above to",{"entites":[[55,60,"LOC"],[55,60,"LOC"],[55,60,"LOC"]]}],["show thee.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I will learn their teaching upon a condition--that my time is given to",{"entites":[]}],["me without question when the madrissah is shut. Ask that for me of the",{"entites":[]}],["Colonel.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But why not ask the Colonel in the Sahib's tongue?'",{"entites":[[36,41,"PERSON"],[36,41,"PERSON"],[36,41,"PERSON"]]}],["'The Colonel is the servant of the Government. He is sent hither and yon",{"entites":[]}],["at a word, and must consider his own advancement. (See how much I have",{"entites":[]}],["already learned at Nucklao!) Moreover, the Colonel I know since three",{"entites":[[19,26,"LOC"],[19,26,"LOC"],[19,26,"LOC"]]}],["months only. I have known one Mahbub Ali for six years. So! To the",{"entites":[[30,40,"PERSON"],[30,40,"PERSON"],[30,40,"PERSON"]]}],["madrissah I will go. At the madrissah I will learn. In the madrissah I",{"entites":[]}],["will be a Sahib. But when the madrissah is shut, then must I be free and",{"entites":[]}],["go among my people. Otherwise I die!'",{"entites":[]}],["'And who are thy People, Friend of all the World?'",{"entites":[]}],["'This great and beautiful land,' said Kim, waving his paw round the",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["little clay-walled room where the oil-lamp in its niche burned heavily",{"entites":[]}],["through the tobacco-smoke. 'And, further, I would see my lama again. And",{"entites":[]}],["further, I need money.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is the need of everyone,' said Mahbub ruefully. 'I will give thee",{"entites":[[37,43,"PERSON"],[37,43,"PERSON"],[37,43,"PERSON"]]}],["eight annas, for much money is not picked out of horses' hooves, and it",{"entites":[]}],["must suffice for many days. As to all the rest, I am well pleased, and",{"entites":[]}],["no further talk is needed. Make haste to learn, and in three years, or",{"entites":[]}],["it may be less, thou wilt be an aid--even to me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Have I been such a hindrance till now?' said Kim, with a boy's giggle.",{"entites":[[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"]]}],["'Do not give answers,' Mahbub grunted. 'Thou art my new horse-boy. Go",{"entites":[[23,29,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"]]}],["and bed among my men. They are near the north end of the station, with",{"entites":[]}],["the horses.'",{"entites":[]}],["'They will beat me to the south end of the station if I come without",{"entites":[]}],["authority.'",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub felt in his belt, wetted his thumb on a cake of Chinese ink, and",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[55,62,"LOC"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[55,62,"LOC"],[55,62,"LOC"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["dabbed the impression on a piece of soft native paper. From Balkh to",{"entites":[[60,65,"LOC"],[60,65,"LOC"],[60,65,"LOC"]]}],["Bombay men know that rough-ridged print with the old scar running",{"entites":[[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["diagonally across it.",{"entites":[]}],["'That is enough to show my headman. I come in the morning.'",{"entites":[]}],["'By which road?' said Kim.",{"entites":[[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"]]}],["'By the road from the City. There is but one, and then we return to",{"entites":[]}],["Creighton Sahib. I have saved thee a beating.'",{"entites":[[0,15,"PERSON"],[0,15,"PERSON"],[0,15,"PERSON"]]}],["'Allah! What is a beating when the very head is loose on the shoulders?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim slid out quietly into the night, walked half round the house,",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["keeping close to the walls, and headed away from the station for a mile",{"entites":[]}],["or so. Then, fetching a wide compass, he worked back at leisure, for he",{"entites":[]}],["needed time to invent a story if any of Mahbub's retainers asked",{"entites":[[40,46,"PERSON"],[40,46,"PERSON"],[40,46,"PERSON"]]}],["questions.",{"entites":[]}],["They were camped on a piece of waste ground beside the railway, and,",{"entites":[]}],["being natives, had not, of course, unloaded the two trucks in which",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub's animals stood among a consignment of country-breds bought by",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["the Bombay tram-company. The headman, a broken-down, consumptive-looking",{"entites":[[4,10,"LOC"],[4,10,"LOC"],[4,10,"LOC"]]}],["Mohammedan, promptly challenged Kim, but was pacified at sight of",{"entites":[[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"]]}],["Mahbub's sign-manual.",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["'The Hajji has of his favour given me service,' said Kim testily. 'If",{"entites":[[53,56,"PERSON"],[53,56,"PERSON"],[5,10,"PERSON"],[5,10,"PERSON"],[53,56,"PERSON"],[5,10,"PERSON"]]}],["this be doubted, wait till he comes in the morning. Meantime, a place by",{"entites":[]}],["the fire.'",{"entites":[]}],["Followed the usual aimless babble that every low-caste native must raise",{"entites":[]}],["on every occasion. It died down, and Kim lay out behind the little knot",{"entites":[[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"]]}],["of Mahbub's followers, almost under the wheels of a horse-truck, a",{"entites":[[3,9,"PERSON"],[3,9,"PERSON"],[3,9,"PERSON"]]}],["borrowed blanket for covering. Now a bed among brickbats and",{"entites":[]}],["ballast-refuse on a damp night, between overcrowded horses and unwashen",{"entites":[]}],["Baltis, would not appeal to many white boys; but Kim was utterly happy.",{"entites":[[49,52,"PERSON"],[49,52,"PERSON"],[49,52,"PERSON"]]}],["Change of scene, service, and surroundings were the breath of his little",{"entites":[]}],["nostrils, and thinking of the neat white cots of St. Xavier's all arow",{"entites":[]}],["under the punkah gave him joy as keen as the repetition of the",{"entites":[]}],["multiplication-table in English.",{"entites":[[24,31,"LOC"],[24,31,"LOC"],[24,31,"LOC"]]}],["'I am very old,' he thought sleepily. 'Every month I become a year more",{"entites":[]}],["old. I was very young, and a fool to boot, when I took Mahbub's message",{"entites":[[55,61,"PERSON"],[55,61,"PERSON"],[55,61,"PERSON"]]}],["to Umballa. Even when I was with that white regiment I was very young",{"entites":[[3,10,"LOC"],[3,10,"LOC"],[3,10,"LOC"]]}],["and small and had no wisdom. But now I learn every day, and in three",{"entites":[]}],["years the Colonel will take me out of the madrissah and let me go upon",{"entites":[]}],["the Road with Mahbub hunting for horses' pedigrees, or maybe I shall go",{"entites":[[14,20,"PERSON"],[14,20,"PERSON"],[14,20,"PERSON"]]}],["by myself; or maybe I shall find the lama and go with him. Yes; that is",{"entites":[]}],["best. To walk again as a chela with my lama when he comes back to",{"entites":[]}],["Benares.' The thoughts came more slowly and disconnectedly. He was",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["plunging into a beautiful dreamland when his ears caught a whisper, thin",{"entites":[]}],["and sharp, above the monotonous babble round the fire. It came from",{"entites":[]}],["behind the iron-skinned horse-truck.",{"entites":[]}],["'He is not here then?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Where should he be but roystering in the City. Who looks for a rat in a",{"entites":[]}],["frog-pond? Come away. He is not our man.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He must not go back beyond the Passes a second time. It is the order.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Hire some woman to drug him. It is a few rupees only, and there is no",{"entites":[]}],["evidence.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Except the woman. It must be more certain; and remember the price upon",{"entites":[]}],["his head.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay, but the police have a long arm, and we are far from the Border. If",{"entites":[]}],["it were in Peshawur now!'",{"entites":[[11,19,"LOC"],[11,19,"LOC"],[11,19,"LOC"]]}],["'Yes--in Peshawur,' the second voice sneered. 'Peshawur, full of his",{"entites":[[9,17,"LOC"],[9,17,"LOC"],[9,17,"LOC"]]}],["blood-kin--full of bolt-holes and women behind whose clothes he will",{"entites":[]}],["hide. Yes, Peshawur or Jehannum would suit us equally well.'",{"entites":[[11,19,"PERSON"],[11,19,"PERSON"],[11,19,"PERSON"]]}],["'Then what is the plan?'",{"entites":[]}],["'O fool, have I not told it a hundred times. Wait till he comes to lie",{"entites":[]}],["down, and then one sure shot. The trucks are between us and pursuit. We",{"entites":[]}],["have but to run back over the lines and go our way. They will not see",{"entites":[]}],["whence the shot came. Wait here at least till the dawn. What manner of",{"entites":[]}],["faquir art thou to shiver at a little watching?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oho!' thought Kim, behind close-shut eyes. 'Once again it is Mahbub.",{"entites":[[15,18,"PERSON"],[15,18,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"],[15,18,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"]]}],["Indeed a white stallion's pedigree is not a good thing to peddle to",{"entites":[]}],["Sahibs! Or maybe Mahbub has been selling other news. Now what is to do,",{"entites":[[17,23,"PERSON"],[17,23,"PERSON"],[17,23,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim? I know not where Mahbub houses, and if he comes here before the",{"entites":[[22,28,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[22,28,"PERSON"],[22,28,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["dawn they will shoot him. That would be no profit for thee, Kim. And",{"entites":[[60,63,"PERSON"],[60,63,"PERSON"],[60,63,"PERSON"]]}],["this is not a matter for the police. That would be no profit for Mahbub;",{"entites":[[65,71,"PERSON"],[65,71,"PERSON"],[65,71,"PERSON"]]}],["and,' he giggled almost aloud, 'I do not remember any lesson at Nucklao",{"entites":[[64,71,"LOC"],[64,71,"LOC"],[64,71,"LOC"]]}],["which will help me. Allah! Here is Kim and yonder are they. First then,",{"entites":[[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim must wake and go away, so that they shall not suspect. A bad dream",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["wakes a man--thus--'",{"entites":[]}],["He threw the blanket off his face, and raised himself suddenly with the",{"entites":[]}],["terrible, bubbling, meaningless yell of the Asiatic roused by nightmare.",{"entites":[]}],["'Urr-urr-urr-urr! Ya-la-la-la-la! Narain! The churel! The churel!'",{"entites":[[34,40,"PERSON"],[34,40,"PERSON"],[34,40,"PERSON"]]}],["A churel is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in",{"entites":[]}],["child-bed. She haunts lonely roads, her feet are turned backwards on the",{"entites":[]}],["ankles, and she leads men to torment.",{"entites":[]}],["Louder rose Kim's quavering howl, till at last he leaped to his feet and",{"entites":[[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["staggered off sleepily, while the camp cursed him for waking them. Some",{"entites":[]}],["twenty yards farther up the line he lay down again, taking care that the",{"entites":[]}],["whisperers should hear his grunts and groans as he recomposed himself.",{"entites":[]}],["After a few minutes he rolled towards the road and stole away into the",{"entites":[]}],["thick darkness.",{"entites":[]}],["[Illustration: 'They are all most holy and--most greedy . . . I have",{"entites":[]}],["walked the pillars and trodden the temples till my feet are flayed, and",{"entites":[]}],["the child is no whit better.']",{"entites":[]}],["He paddled along swiftly till he came to a culvert, and dropped behind",{"entites":[]}],["it, his chin on a level with the coping-stone. Here he could command all",{"entites":[]}],["the night-traffic, himself unseen.",{"entites":[]}],["Two or three carts passed, jingling out to the suburbs; a coughing",{"entites":[]}],["policeman and a hurrying foot-passenger or two who sang to keep off evil",{"entites":[]}],["spirits. Then rapped the shod feet of a horse.",{"entites":[]}],["'Ah! This is more like Mahbub,' thought Kim, as the beast shied at the",{"entites":[[23,29,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"]]}],["little head above the culvert.",{"entites":[]}],["'Ohe, Mahbub Ali,' he whispered, 'have a care!'",{"entites":[[6,16,"PERSON"],[6,16,"PERSON"],[6,16,"PERSON"]]}],["The horse was reined back almost on its haunches, and forced towards the",{"entites":[]}],["culvert.",{"entites":[]}],["'Never again,' said Mahbub, 'will I take a shod horse for night-work.",{"entites":[[20,26,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"]]}],["They pick up all the bones and nails in the city.' He stooped to lift",{"entites":[]}],["its forefoot, and that brought his head within a foot of Kim's.",{"entites":[[57,60,"PERSON"],[57,60,"PERSON"],[57,60,"PERSON"]]}],["'Down--keep down,' he muttered. 'The night is full of eyes.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Two men wait thy coming behind the horse-trucks. They will shoot thee",{"entites":[]}],["at thy lying down, because there is a price on thy head. I heard,",{"entites":[]}],["sleeping near the horses.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Didst thou see them? . . . Hold still, Sire of Devils!' This furiously",{"entites":[]}],["to the horse.",{"entites":[]}],["'No.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Was one dressed belike as a faquir?'",{"entites":[]}],["'One said to the other, \"What manner of a faquir art thou, to shiver at",{"entites":[]}],["a little watching?\"'",{"entites":[]}],["'Good. Go back to the camp and lie down. I do not die to-night.'",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub wheeled his horse and vanished. Kim tore back down the ditch till",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["he reached a point opposite his second resting-place, slipped across the",{"entites":[]}],["road like a weasel, and recoiled himself in the blanket.",{"entites":[]}],["'At least Mahbub knows,' he thought contentedly. 'And certainly he spoke",{"entites":[[10,16,"PERSON"],[10,16,"PERSON"],[10,16,"PERSON"]]}],["as one expecting it. I do not think those two men will profit by",{"entites":[]}],["to-night's watch.'",{"entites":[]}],["An hour passed, and, with the best will in the world to keep awake all",{"entites":[]}],["night, he slept deeply. Now and again a night train roared along the",{"entites":[]}],["metals within twenty feet of him; but he had all the Oriental's",{"entites":[]}],["indifference to mere noise, and it did not even weave a dream through",{"entites":[]}],["his slumber.",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub was anything but asleep. It annoyed him vehemently that people",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["outside his tribe and unaffected by his casual amours should pursue him",{"entites":[]}],["for the life. His first and natural impulse was to cross the line lower",{"entites":[]}],["down, work up again, and, catching his well-wishers from behind,",{"entites":[]}],["summarily slay them. Here, he reflected with sorrow, another branch of",{"entites":[]}],["the Government, totally unconnected with Colonel Creighton, might demand",{"entites":[[49,58,"PERSON"],[49,58,"PERSON"],[49,58,"PERSON"]]}],["explanations which would be hard to supply; and he knew that south the",{"entites":[]}],["Border a perfectly ridiculous fuss is made about a corpse or so. He had",{"entites":[]}],["not been troubled in this way since he sent Kim to Umballa with the",{"entites":[[51,58,"LOC"],[51,58,"LOC"],[44,47,"PERSON"],[51,58,"LOC"],[44,47,"PERSON"],[44,47,"PERSON"]]}],["message, and hoped that suspicion had been finally diverted.",{"entites":[]}],["Then a most brilliant notion struck him.",{"entites":[]}],["'The English do eternally tell the truth,' he said, 'therefore we of",{"entites":[[5,12,"LOC"],[5,12,"LOC"],[5,12,"LOC"]]}],["this country are eternally made foolish. By Allah, I will tell the truth",{"entites":[]}],["to an Englishman! Of what use is the Government police if a poor Kabuli",{"entites":[[6,16,"LOC"],[6,16,"LOC"],[65,71,"PERSON"],[6,16,"LOC"],[65,71,"PERSON"],[65,71,"PERSON"]]}],["be robbed of his horses in their very trucks. This is as bad as",{"entites":[]}],["Peshawur! I should lay a complaint at the station. Better still, some",{"entites":[]}],["young Sahib on the Railway! They are zealous, and if they catch thieves",{"entites":[[6,11,"PERSON"],[6,11,"PERSON"],[6,11,"PERSON"]]}],["it is remembered to their honour.'",{"entites":[]}],["He tied up his horse outside the station, and strode on to the platform.",{"entites":[]}],["'Hullo, Mahbub Ali!' said a young Assistant District Traffic",{"entites":[[8,18,"PERSON"],[8,18,"PERSON"],[8,18,"PERSON"]]}],["Superintendent who was waiting to go down the line--a tall, tow-haired,",{"entites":[]}],["horsey youth in dingy white linen. 'What are you doing here? Selling",{"entites":[]}],["weeds--eh?'",{"entites":[]}],["'No; I am not troubled for my horses. I come to look for Lutuf Ullah. I",{"entites":[[57,68,"PERSON"],[57,68,"PERSON"],[57,68,"PERSON"]]}],["have a truck-load up the line. Could any one take them out without the",{"entites":[]}],["Railway's knowledge?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Shouldn't think so, Mahbub. You can claim against us if they do.'",{"entites":[[21,27,"PERSON"],[21,27,"PERSON"],[21,27,"PERSON"]]}],["'I have seen two men crouching under the wheels of one of the trucks",{"entites":[]}],["nearly all the night. Faquirs do not steal horses, so I gave them no",{"entites":[]}],["more thought. I would find Lutuf Ullah, my partner.'",{"entites":[[27,38,"PERSON"],[27,38,"PERSON"],[27,38,"PERSON"]]}],["'The deuce you did? And you didn't bother your head about it? 'Pon my",{"entites":[]}],["word, it's just almost as well that I met you. What were they like, eh?'",{"entites":[]}],["'They were only faquirs. They will no more than take a little grain",{"entites":[]}],["perhaps from one of the trucks. There are many up the line. The State",{"entites":[]}],["will never miss the dole. I came here seeking for my partner, Lutuf",{"entites":[[62,73,"PERSON"],[62,73,"PERSON"],[62,73,"PERSON"]]}],["Ullah--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Never mind your partner. Where are your horse-trucks?'",{"entites":[]}],["'A little to this side of the farthest place where they make lamps for",{"entites":[]}],["the trains.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The signal-box. Yes.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And upon, the rail nearest to the road upon the right-hand",{"entites":[]}],["side--looking up the line thus. But as regards Lutuf Ullah--a tall man",{"entites":[[47,58,"PERSON"],[47,58,"PERSON"],[47,58,"PERSON"]]}],["with a broken nose, and a Persian greyhound--Aie!'",{"entites":[]}],["The boy had hurried off to wake up a young and enthusiastic policeman;",{"entites":[]}],["for, as he said, the Railway had suffered much from depredations in the",{"entites":[]}],["goods-yard. Mahbub Ali chuckled in his dyed beard.",{"entites":[[12,22,"PERSON"],[12,22,"PERSON"],[12,22,"PERSON"]]}],["'They will walk in their boots, making a noise, and then they will",{"entites":[]}],["wonder why there are no faquirs. They are very clever boys--Barton Sahib",{"entites":[[60,72,"PERSON"],[60,72,"PERSON"],[60,72,"PERSON"]]}],["and Young Sahib.'",{"entites":[[4,15,"PERSON"],[4,15,"PERSON"],[4,15,"PERSON"]]}],["He waited idly for a few minutes, expecting to see them hurry up the",{"entites":[]}],["line girt for action. A light engine slid through the station, and he",{"entites":[]}],["caught a glimpse of young Barton in the cab.",{"entites":[[26,32,"PERSON"],[26,32,"PERSON"],[26,32,"PERSON"]]}],["'I did that child an injustice. He is not altogether a fool,' said",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub Ali. 'To take a fire-carriage for a thief is a new game!'",{"entites":[[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"]]}],["When Mahbub Ali came to his camp in the dawn, no one thought it worth",{"entites":[[5,15,"PERSON"],[5,15,"PERSON"],[5,15,"PERSON"]]}],["while to tell him any news of the night. No one, at least, but one small",{"entites":[]}],["horse-boy, newly advanced to the great man's service, whom Mahbub called",{"entites":[[59,65,"PERSON"],[59,65,"PERSON"],[59,65,"PERSON"]]}],["to his tiny tent to assist in some packing.",{"entites":[]}],["'It is all known to me,' whispered Kim, bending above saddle-bags. 'Two",{"entites":[[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"]]}],["Sahibs came up on a te-rain. I was running to and fro in the dark on",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["this side of the trucks as the te-rain moved up and down slowly. They",{"entites":[]}],["fell upon two men sitting under this truck--Hajji, what shall I do with",{"entites":[[44,49,"PERSON"],[44,49,"PERSON"],[44,49,"PERSON"]]}],["this lump of tobacco? Wrap it in paper and put it under the salt-bag?",{"entites":[]}],["Yes--and struck them down. But one man struck at a Sahib with a faquir's",{"entites":[]}],["buck's horn' (Kim meant the conjoined black-buck horns, which are a",{"entites":[[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"]]}],["faquir's sole temporal weapon)--'the blood came. So the other Sahib,",{"entites":[[62,67,"PERSON"],[62,67,"PERSON"],[62,67,"PERSON"]]}],["first smiting his own man senseless, smote the stabber with a short gun",{"entites":[]}],["which had rolled from the first man's hand. They all raged as though mad",{"entites":[]}],["together.'",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub smiled with heavenly resignation. 'No! That is not so much",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["dewanee (madness, or a case for the civil court--the word can be punned",{"entites":[]}],["upon both ways) as nizamut (a criminal case). A gun sayest thou? Ten",{"entites":[]}],["good years in jail.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Then they both lay still, but I think they were nearly dead when they",{"entites":[]}],["were put on the te-rain. Their heads moved thus. And there is much blood",{"entites":[]}],["on the line. Come and see?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have seen blood before. Jail is the sure place--and assuredly they",{"entites":[]}],["will give false names, and assuredly no man will find them for a long",{"entites":[]}],["time. They were unfriends of mine. Thy Fate and mine seem on one string.",{"entites":[]}],["What a tale for the healer of pearls! Now swiftly with the saddle-bags",{"entites":[]}],["and the cooking-platter. We will take out the horses and away to Simla.'",{"entites":[[65,70,"LOC"],[65,70,"LOC"],[65,70,"LOC"]]}],["Swiftly,--as Orientals understand speed,--with long explanations, with",{"entites":[]}],["abuse and windy talk, carelessly, amid a hundred checks for little",{"entites":[]}],["things forgotten, the untidy camp broke up and led the half-dozen stiff",{"entites":[]}],["and fretful horses along the Kalka road in the fresh of the rain-swept",{"entites":[[29,34,"LOC"],[29,34,"LOC"],[29,34,"LOC"]]}],["dawn. Kim, regarded as Mahbub Ali's favourite by all who wished to stand",{"entites":[[23,33,"PERSON"],[23,33,"PERSON"],[6,9,"PERSON"],[23,33,"PERSON"],[6,9,"PERSON"],[6,9,"PERSON"]]}],["well with the Pathan, was not called upon to work. They strolled on by",{"entites":[]}],["the easiest of stages, halting every few hours at a wayside shelter.",{"entites":[]}],["Very many Sahibs travel along the Kalka road; and, as Mahbub Ali says,",{"entites":[[54,64,"PERSON"],[34,39,"LOC"],[54,64,"PERSON"],[34,39,"LOC"],[34,39,"LOC"],[54,64,"PERSON"]]}],["every young Sahib must needs esteem himself a judge of a horse, and,",{"entites":[[12,17,"PERSON"],[12,17,"PERSON"],[12,17,"PERSON"]]}],["though he be over head in debt to the money-lender, must make as if to",{"entites":[]}],["buy. That was the reason that Sahib after Sahib, rolling along in a",{"entites":[[42,47,"PERSON"],[30,35,"PERSON"],[42,47,"PERSON"],[30,35,"PERSON"],[42,47,"PERSON"],[30,35,"PERSON"]]}],["stage-carriage, would stop and open talk. 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As thus--' and he told Kim a tale of an expression,",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["misused in all innocence, that doubled Kim up with mirth. 'Now I see,",{"entites":[[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["however,'--he exhaled smoke slowly,--'that it is with them as with all",{"entites":[]}],["men--in certain matters they are wise, and in others most foolish. Very",{"entites":[]}],["foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart",{"entites":[]}],["may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more",{"entites":[]}],["like to search truth with a dagger.'",{"entites":[]}],["'True. True talk,' said Kim solemnly. 'Fools speak of a cat when a woman",{"entites":[[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["is brought to bed, for instance. I have heard them.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Therefore, in one situate as thou art, it particularly behoves thee to",{"entites":[]}],["remember this with both kinds of faces. Among Sahibs, never forgetting",{"entites":[]}],["thou art a Sahib; among the folk of Hind, always remembering thou art--'",{"entites":[[36,40,"LOC"],[36,40,"LOC"],[36,40,"LOC"]]}],["he paused, with a puzzled smile.",{"entites":[]}],["'What am I? Mussalman, Hindu, Jain, or Buddhist? That is a hard nut.'",{"entites":[[30,34,"PERSON"],[12,21,"PERSON"],[12,21,"PERSON"],[30,34,"PERSON"],[30,34,"PERSON"],[12,21,"PERSON"]]}],["'Thou art beyond question an unbeliever, and therefore thou wilt be",{"entites":[]}],["damned. So says my Law--or I think it does. But thou art also my Little",{"entites":[]}],["Friend of all the World, and I love thee. So says my heart. This matter",{"entites":[]}],["of creeds is like horseflesh. The wise man knows horses are good--that",{"entites":[]}],["there is a profit to be made from all; and for myself--but that I am a",{"entites":[]}],["good Sunni and hate the men of Tirah--I could believe the same of all",{"entites":[[31,36,"LOC"],[31,36,"LOC"],[31,36,"LOC"]]}],["the Faiths. Now manifestly a Kattiawar mare taken from the sands of her",{"entites":[]}],["birthplace and removed to the west of Bengal founders--nor is even a",{"entites":[[38,44,"LOC"],[38,44,"LOC"],[38,44,"LOC"]]}],["Balkh stallion (and there are no better horses than those of Balkh, were",{"entites":[[0,5,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"],[61,66,"LOC"],[61,66,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"],[61,66,"LOC"]]}],["they not so heavy in the shoulder) of any account in the great Northern",{"entites":[]}],["deserts beside the snow-camels I have seen. Therefore I say in my heart",{"entites":[]}],["the Faiths are like the horses. Each has merit in its own country.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But my lama said altogether a different thing.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, he is an old dreamer of dreams from Bhotiyal. My heart is a little",{"entites":[[41,49,"LOC"],[41,49,"LOC"],[41,49,"LOC"]]}],["angry, Friend of all the World, that thou shouldst see such worth in a",{"entites":[]}],["man so little known.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is true, Hajji; but that worth do I see; and to him my heart is",{"entites":[[13,18,"PERSON"],[13,18,"PERSON"],[13,18,"PERSON"]]}],["drawn.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And his to thine, I hear. Hearts are like horses. They come and they go",{"entites":[]}],["against bit or spur. Shout Gul Sher Khan yonder to drive in that bay",{"entites":[[27,40,"PERSON"],[27,40,"PERSON"],[27,40,"PERSON"]]}],["stallion's pickets more firmly. We do not want a horse-fight at every",{"entites":[]}],["resting-stage, and the dun and the black will be locked in a little. . . .",{"entites":[]}],["Now hear me. Is it necessary to the comfort of thy heart to see that",{"entites":[]}],["lama?'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is one part of my bond,' said Kim. 'If I do not see him, and if he",{"entites":[[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"]]}],["is taken from me, I will go out of that madrissah in Nucklao and,",{"entites":[[53,60,"LOC"],[53,60,"LOC"],[53,60,"LOC"]]}],["and--once gone, who is to find me again?'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is true. Never was colt held on a lighter heel-rope than thou.'",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub nodded his head.",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["'Do not be afraid.' Kim spoke as though he could have evanished on the",{"entites":[[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"]]}],["moment. 'My lama has said that he will come to see me at the",{"entites":[]}],["madrissah--'",{"entites":[]}],["'A beggar and his bowl in the presence of those young Sa--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Not all!' Kim cut in with a snort. 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When I always tell thee the truth.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Perhaps the very reason, for this is a world of danger to honest men.'",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub Ali hauled himself off the ground, girt in his belt, and went",{"entites":[[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"]]}],["over to the horses.",{"entites":[]}],["'Or sell it?'",{"entites":[]}],["There was that in the tone that made Mahbub halt and turn. 'What new",{"entites":[[37,43,"PERSON"],[37,43,"PERSON"],[37,43,"PERSON"]]}],["devilry?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Eight annas, and I will tell,' said Kim, grinning. 'It touches thy",{"entites":[[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"]]}],["peace.'",{"entites":[]}],["'O Shaitan!' Mahbub gave the money.",{"entites":[[13,19,"PERSON"],[13,19,"PERSON"],[13,19,"PERSON"]]}],["'Rememberest thou the little business of the thieves in the dark, down",{"entites":[]}],["yonder at Umballa?'",{"entites":[[10,17,"LOC"],[10,17,"LOC"],[10,17,"LOC"]]}],["'Seeing they sought my life, I have not altogether forgotten. Why?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Rememberest thou the Kashmir Serai?'",{"entites":[[22,35,"PERSON"],[22,35,"PERSON"],[22,35,"PERSON"]]}],["'I will twist thy ears in a moment--Sahib.'",{"entites":[[36,41,"PERSON"],[36,41,"PERSON"],[36,41,"PERSON"]]}],["'No need--Pathan. Only, the second faquir, whom the Sahibs beat",{"entites":[[52,58,"PERSON"],[52,58,"PERSON"],[52,58,"PERSON"]]}],["senseless, was the man who came to search thy bulkhead at Lahore. I saw",{"entites":[[58,64,"LOC"],[58,64,"LOC"],[58,64,"LOC"]]}],["his face as they helped him on the engine. The very same man.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Why didst thou not tell before?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, he will go to jail, and be safe for some years. There is no need to",{"entites":[]}],["tell more than is necessary at any one time. Besides, I did not then",{"entites":[]}],["need money for sweetmeats.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Allah Karim!' said Mahbub Ali. 'Wilt thou some day sell my head for a",{"entites":[[20,30,"PERSON"],[20,30,"PERSON"],[20,30,"PERSON"]]}],["few sweetmeats if the fit takes thee?'",{"entites":[]}],["       *       *       *       *       *",{"entites":[]}],["Kim will remember till he dies that long, lazy journey from Umballa,",{"entites":[[60,67,"LOC"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[60,67,"LOC"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[60,67,"LOC"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["through Kalka and the Pinjore Gardens near by, up to Simla. 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But it was all pure delight--the",{"entites":[]}],["wandering road, climbing, dipping, and sweeping about the growing spurs;",{"entites":[]}],["the flush of the morning laid along the distant snows; the branched",{"entites":[]}],["cacti, tier upon tier on the stony hillsides; the voices of a thousand",{"entites":[]}],["water-channels; the chatter of the monkeys; the solemn deodars, climbing",{"entites":[]}],["one after another with down-drooped branches; the vista of the Plains",{"entites":[]}],["rolled out far beneath them; the incessant twanging of the tonga-horns",{"entites":[]}],["and the wild rush of the led horses when a tonga swung round a curve;",{"entites":[[43,48,"LOC"],[43,48,"LOC"],[43,48,"LOC"]]}],["the halts for prayers (Mahbub was very religious in dry-washings and",{"entites":[[23,29,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"]]}],["bellowings when time did not press); the evening conferences by the",{"entites":[]}],["halting-places, when camels and bullocks chewed solemnly together and",{"entites":[]}],["the stolid drivers told the news of the Road--all these things lifted",{"entites":[[40,44,"LOC"],[40,44,"LOC"],[40,44,"LOC"]]}],["Kim's heart to song within him.",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'But, when the singing and dancing is done,' said Mahbub Ali, 'comes the",{"entites":[[50,60,"PERSON"],[50,60,"PERSON"],[50,60,"PERSON"]]}],["Colonel Sahib's, and that is not so sweet.'",{"entites":[[8,13,"PERSON"],[8,13,"PERSON"],[8,13,"PERSON"]]}],["'A fair land--a most beautiful land is this of Hind--and the land of the",{"entites":[[47,51,"LOC"],[47,51,"LOC"],[47,51,"LOC"]]}],["Five Rivers is fairer than all,' Kim half chanted. 'Into it I will go",{"entites":[[0,4,"LOC"],[5,11,"LOC"],[0,4,"LOC"],[5,11,"LOC"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[5,11,"LOC"],[0,4,"LOC"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"]]}],["again if Mahbub Ali or the Colonel lift hand or foot against me. Once",{"entites":[[9,19,"PERSON"],[9,19,"PERSON"],[9,19,"PERSON"]]}],["gone, who shall find me? Look, Hajji, is yonder the city of Simla?",{"entites":[[60,65,"LOC"],[60,65,"LOC"],[60,65,"LOC"],[31,36,"PERSON"],[31,36,"PERSON"],[31,36,"PERSON"]]}],["Allah, what a city!'",{"entites":[]}],["'My father's brother, and he was an old man when Mackerson Sahib's well",{"entites":[[49,64,"PERSON"],[49,64,"PERSON"],[49,64,"PERSON"]]}],["was new at Peshawur, could recall when there were but two houses in it.'",{"entites":[[11,19,"LOC"],[11,19,"LOC"],[11,19,"LOC"]]}],["He led the horses below the main road into the lower Simla bazar--the",{"entites":[]}],["crowded rabbit-warren that climbs up from the valley to the town-hall at",{"entites":[]}],["an angle of forty-five. A man who knows his way there can defy all the",{"entites":[]}],["police of India's summer capital; so cunningly does veranda communicate",{"entites":[[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"]]}],["with veranda, alley-way with alley-way, and bolt-hole with bolt-hole.",{"entites":[]}],["Here live those who minister to the wants of the glad city--jhampanis",{"entites":[]}],["who pull the pretty ladies' rickshaws by night and gamble till the dawn;",{"entites":[]}],["grocers, oil-sellers, curio-vendors, firewood dealers, priests,",{"entites":[]}],["pickpockets, and native employees of the Government: here are discussed",{"entites":[]}],["by courtesans the things which are supposed to be profoundest secrets of",{"entites":[]}],["the India Council; and here gather all the sub-sub-agents of half the",{"entites":[]}],["native States. Here, too, Mahbub Ali rented a room, much more securely",{"entites":[[26,36,"PERSON"],[26,36,"PERSON"],[26,36,"PERSON"]]}],["locked than his bulkhead at Lahore, in the house of a Mohammedan",{"entites":[[28,34,"LOC"],[28,34,"LOC"],[28,34,"LOC"]]}],["cattle-dealer. It was a place of miracles, too, for there went in at",{"entites":[]}],["twilight a Mohammedan horse-boy, and there came out an hour later a",{"entites":[]}],["Eurasian lad--the Lucknow girl's dye was of the best--in badly fitting",{"entites":[[18,25,"LOC"],[18,25,"LOC"],[18,25,"LOC"]]}],["shop-clothes.",{"entites":[]}],["'I have spoken with Creighton Sahib,' quoth Mahbub Ali, 'and a second",{"entites":[[20,35,"PERSON"],[44,54,"PERSON"],[44,54,"PERSON"],[44,54,"PERSON"],[20,35,"PERSON"],[20,35,"PERSON"]]}],["time has the Hand of Friendship averted the Whip of Calamity. He says",{"entites":[]}],["that thou hast altogether wasted sixty days upon the Road, and it is too",{"entites":[]}],["late, therefore, to send thee to any hill-school.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have said that my holidays are my own. I do not go to school twice",{"entites":[]}],["over. That is one part of my bond.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The Colonel Sahib is not yet aware of the contract. Thou art to lodge",{"entites":[[13,18,"PERSON"],[13,18,"PERSON"],[13,18,"PERSON"]]}],["in Lurgan Sahib's house till it is time to go again to Nucklao.'",{"entites":[[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"],[55,62,"PERSON"],[3,9,"LOC"],[55,62,"PERSON"],[3,9,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"],[55,62,"PERSON"],[3,9,"LOC"]]}],["'I had sooner lodge with thee, Mahbub.'",{"entites":[[31,37,"PERSON"],[31,37,"PERSON"],[31,37,"PERSON"]]}],["'Thou dost not know the honour. Lurgan Sahib himself asked for thee.",{"entites":[[32,44,"PERSON"],[32,44,"PERSON"],[32,44,"PERSON"]]}],["Thou wilt go up the hill and along the road atop, and there thou must",{"entites":[]}],["forget for a while that thou hast ever seen or spoken to me, Mahbub Ali,",{"entites":[[61,71,"PERSON"],[61,71,"PERSON"],[61,71,"PERSON"]]}],["who sells horses to Creighton Sahib, whom thou dost not know. Remember",{"entites":[[20,35,"PERSON"],[20,35,"PERSON"],[20,35,"PERSON"]]}],["this order.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim nodded. 'Good,' said he, 'and who is Lurgan Sahib? Nay'--he caught",{"entites":[[41,53,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[41,53,"PERSON"],[41,53,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["Mahbub's sword-keen glance 'indeed I have never heard his name. Is he by",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["chance'--he lowered his voice--'one of us?'",{"entites":[]}],["'What talk is this of us, Sahib?' 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Here begins the",{"entites":[]}],["Great Game.'",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER IX",{"entites":[]}],["          S'doaks was son of Yelth the wise--",{"entites":[[29,34,"PERSON"],[29,34,"PERSON"],[29,34,"PERSON"]]}],["            Chief of the Raven clan.",{"entites":[]}],["          Itswoot the Bear had him in care",{"entites":[]}],["            To make him a medicine-man.",{"entites":[]}],["          He was quick and quicker to learn--",{"entites":[]}],["            Bold and bolder to dare:",{"entites":[]}],["          He danced the dread Kloo-Kwallie Dance",{"entites":[]}],["            To tickle Itswoot the Bear!",{"entites":[]}],["                                   'Oregon Legend.'",{"entites":[[36,42,"LOC"],[36,42,"LOC"],[36,42,"LOC"]]}],["KIM flung himself whole-heartedly upon the next turn of the wheel. He",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["would be a Sahib again for a while. In that idea, so soon as he had",{"entites":[[11,16,"PERSON"],[11,16,"PERSON"],[11,16,"PERSON"]]}],["reached the broad road under Simla town-hall, he cast about for one to",{"entites":[]}],["impress. A Hindu child, some ten years old, squatted under a lamp-post.",{"entites":[]}],["'Where is Mr. Lurgan's house?' demanded Kim.",{"entites":[[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"],[14,20,"PERSON"],[14,20,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"],[14,20,"PERSON"]]}],["'I do not understand English,' was the answer, and Kim shifted his",{"entites":[[21,28,"LOC"],[51,54,"PERSON"],[21,28,"LOC"],[51,54,"PERSON"],[21,28,"LOC"],[51,54,"PERSON"]]}],["speech accordingly.",{"entites":[]}],["'I will show.'",{"entites":[]}],["Together they set off through the mysterious dusk, full of the noises of",{"entites":[]}],["a city below the hillside, and the breath of a cool wind in",{"entites":[]}],["deodar-crowned Jakko, shouldering the stars. 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A",{"entites":[]}],["black-bearded man, with a green shade over his eyes, sat at a table,",{"entites":[]}],["and, one by one, with short, white hands, picked up globules of light",{"entites":[]}],["from a tray before him, threaded them on a glancing silken string, and",{"entites":[]}],["hummed to himself the while. Kim was conscious that beyond the circle of",{"entites":[[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"]]}],["light the room was full of things that smelt like all the temples of all",{"entites":[]}],["the East. 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Lurgan Sahib--this",{"entites":[[57,62,"LOC"],[50,56,"LOC"],[50,56,"LOC"],[50,56,"LOC"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[57,62,"LOC"],[57,62,"LOC"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["annoyed Kim--watched the Babu and not the play.",{"entites":[[8,11,"PERSON"],[25,29,"PERSON"],[8,11,"PERSON"],[8,11,"PERSON"],[25,29,"PERSON"],[25,29,"PERSON"]]}],["'I think,' said the Babu heavily, lighting a cigarette, 'I am of",{"entites":[[20,24,"PERSON"],[20,24,"PERSON"],[20,24,"PERSON"]]}],["opeenion that it is most extraordinary and effeecient performance.",{"entites":[]}],["Except that you had told me I should have opined that--that--that you",{"entites":[]}],["were pulling my legs. How soon can he become approximately effeecient",{"entites":[]}],["chain-man? Because then I shall indent for him.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is what he must learn at Lucknow.'",{"entites":[[31,38,"LOC"],[31,38,"LOC"],[31,38,"LOC"]]}],["'Then order him to be jolly dam-quick. Good-night, Lurgan.' 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God, He knows; but I wish to know what you think.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim glanced sideways at his companion, whose eye had a way of compelling",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["truth.",{"entites":[]}],["'I--I think he will want me when I come from the school,",{"entites":[]}],["but'--confidentially, as Lurgan Sahib nodded approval--'I do not",{"entites":[[25,37,"PERSON"],[25,37,"PERSON"],[25,37,"PERSON"]]}],["understand how he can wear many dresses and talk many tongues.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Thou wilt understand many things later. He is a writer of tales for a",{"entites":[]}],["certain Colonel. 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His companion was the whale-like Babu, who, with",{"entites":[[56,60,"PERSON"],[56,60,"PERSON"],[56,60,"PERSON"],[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"]]}],["a fringed shawl wrapped round his head, and his fat openwork-stockinged",{"entites":[]}],["left leg tucked under him, shivered and grunted in the morning chill.",{"entites":[]}],["'How comes it that this man is one of us?' thought Kim, considering the",{"entites":[[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"],[51,54,"PERSON"]]}],["jelly-back as they jolted down the road; and the reflection threw him",{"entites":[]}],["into most pleasant day-dreams. Lurgan Sahib had given him five rupees--a",{"entites":[[31,43,"PERSON"],[31,43,"PERSON"],[31,43,"PERSON"]]}],["splendid sum--as well as the assurance of his protection if he worked.",{"entites":[]}],["Unlike Mahbub, Lurgan Sahib had spoken most explicitly of the reward",{"entites":[[7,13,"PERSON"],[7,13,"PERSON"],[7,13,"PERSON"],[15,27,"PERSON"],[15,27,"PERSON"],[15,27,"PERSON"]]}],["that would follow obedience, and Kim was content. If only, like the",{"entites":[[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"],[33,36,"PERSON"]]}],["Babu, he could enjoy the dignity of a letter and a number--and a price",{"entites":[[0,4,"PERSON"],[0,4,"PERSON"],[0,4,"PERSON"]]}],["upon his head! Some day he would be all that and more. Some day he might",{"entites":[]}],["be almost as great as Mahbub Ali! The housetops of his search should be",{"entites":[[22,32,"PERSON"],[22,32,"PERSON"],[22,32,"PERSON"]]}],["half India; he would follow Kings and ministers, as in the old days he",{"entites":[[5,10,"LOC"],[5,10,"LOC"],[5,10,"LOC"]]}],["had followed vakils and lawyers' touts across Lahore city for Mahbub",{"entites":[[62,72,"PERSON"],[46,52,"LOC"],[46,52,"LOC"],[62,72,"PERSON"],[46,52,"LOC"],[62,72,"PERSON"]]}],["Ali's sake. Meantime, there was the present, and not at all unpleasant,",{"entites":[]}],["fact of St. Xavier's immediately before him. There would be new boys to",{"entites":[[8,18,"PERSON"],[8,18,"PERSON"],[8,18,"PERSON"]]}],["condescend to, and there would be tales of holiday adventures to hear.",{"entites":[]}],["Young Martin, son of the tea-planter at Manipur, had boasted that he",{"entites":[[0,12,"PERSON"],[0,12,"PERSON"],[40,47,"LOC"],[40,47,"LOC"],[0,12,"PERSON"],[40,47,"LOC"]]}],["would go to war, with a rifle, against the head-hunters. That might be,",{"entites":[]}],["but it was certain young Martin had not been blown half across the",{"entites":[[25,31,"PERSON"],[25,31,"PERSON"],[25,31,"PERSON"]]}],["forecourt of a Patiala palace by an explosion of fireworks; nor had",{"entites":[[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"]]}],["he. . . . Kim fell to telling himself the story of his own adventures",{"entites":[[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"]]}],["through the last three months. He could paralyse St. Xavier's--even the",{"entites":[[53,59,"PERSON"],[53,59,"PERSON"],[53,59,"PERSON"]]}],["biggest boys who shaved--with the recital, were that permitted. But it",{"entites":[]}],["was, of course, out of the question. There would be a price upon his",{"entites":[]}],["head in good time, as Lurgan Sahib had assured him; and if he talked",{"entites":[[22,34,"PERSON"],[22,34,"PERSON"],[22,34,"PERSON"]]}],["foolishly now, not only would that price never be set, but Colonel",{"entites":[]}],["Creighton would cast him off--and he would be left to the wrath of",{"entites":[[0,9,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"]]}],["Lurgan Sahib and Mahbub Ali--for the short space of life that would",{"entites":[[7,12,"LOC"],[17,27,"PERSON"],[17,27,"PERSON"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[7,12,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[17,27,"PERSON"],[7,12,"LOC"]]}],["remain to him.",{"entites":[]}],["'So I should lose Delhi for the sake of a fish,' was his proverbial",{"entites":[[18,23,"LOC"],[18,23,"LOC"],[18,23,"LOC"]]}],["philosophy. It behoved him to forget his holidays (there would always",{"entites":[]}],["remain the fun of inventing imaginary adventures) and, as Lurgan Sahib",{"entites":[[58,70,"PERSON"],[58,70,"PERSON"],[58,70,"PERSON"]]}],["had said, to work.",{"entites":[]}],["Of all the boys hurrying back to St. Xavier's, from Sukkur in the sands",{"entites":[[33,43,"PERSON"],[52,58,"LOC"],[52,58,"LOC"],[33,43,"PERSON"],[52,58,"LOC"],[33,43,"PERSON"]]}],["to Galle beneath the palms, none was so filled with virtue as Kimball",{"entites":[[3,8,"LOC"],[62,76,"PERSON"],[3,8,"LOC"],[62,76,"PERSON"],[62,76,"PERSON"],[3,8,"LOC"]]}],["O'Hara, jiggeting down to Umballa behind Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, whose",{"entites":[[26,33,"LOC"],[26,33,"LOC"],[41,65,"PERSON"],[26,33,"LOC"],[41,65,"PERSON"],[41,65,"PERSON"]]}],["name on the books of one section of the Ethnological Survey was R.17.",{"entites":[]}],["And if additional spur were needed, the Babu supplied it. After a huge",{"entites":[[40,44,"PERSON"],[40,44,"PERSON"],[40,44,"PERSON"]]}],["meal at Kalka, he spoke uninterruptedly. Was Kim going to school? Then",{"entites":[[8,13,"LOC"],[8,13,"LOC"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[8,13,"LOC"]]}],["he, an M. A. of Calcutta University, would explain the advantages of",{"entites":[]}],["education. There were marks to be gained by due attention to Latin and",{"entites":[]}],["Wordsworth's 'Excursion' (all this was Greek to Kim). French, too, was",{"entites":[[48,51,"PERSON"],[39,44,"LOC"],[54,60,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[39,44,"LOC"],[54,60,"LOC"],[54,60,"LOC"],[48,51,"PERSON"],[48,51,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"]]}],["vital, and the best was to be picked up in Chandernagore, a few miles",{"entites":[[43,56,"LOC"],[43,56,"LOC"],[43,56,"LOC"]]}],["from Calcutta. Also a man might go far, as he himself had done, by",{"entites":[[5,13,"LOC"],[5,13,"LOC"],[5,13,"LOC"]]}],["strict attention to plays called 'Lear' and 'Julius Caesar,' both much",{"entites":[[45,58,"PERSON"],[45,58,"PERSON"],[45,58,"PERSON"]]}],["in demand by examiners. 'Lear' was not so full of historical allusions",{"entites":[[25,29,"PERSON"],[25,29,"PERSON"],[25,29,"PERSON"]]}],["as 'Julius Caesar'; the book cost four annas, but could be bought",{"entites":[[4,17,"PERSON"],[4,17,"PERSON"],[4,17,"PERSON"]]}],["second-hand in Bow Bazar for two. Still more important than Wordsworth,",{"entites":[[15,24,"LOC"],[60,70,"PERSON"],[60,70,"PERSON"],[15,24,"LOC"],[60,70,"PERSON"],[15,24,"LOC"]]}],["or the eminent authors, Burke and Hare, was the art and science of",{"entites":[[24,29,"PERSON"],[24,29,"PERSON"],[34,38,"PERSON"],[34,38,"PERSON"],[24,29,"PERSON"],[34,38,"PERSON"]]}],["mensuration. A boy who had passed his examination in these",{"entites":[]}],["branches--for which, by the way, there were no cram-books--could, by",{"entites":[]}],["merely marching over a country with a compass and a level and a straight",{"entites":[]}],["eye, carry away a picture of that country which might be sold for large",{"entites":[]}],["sums in coined silver. But as it was occasionally inexpedient to carry",{"entites":[]}],["about measuring-chains, a boy would do well to know the precise length",{"entites":[]}],["of his own foot-pace, so that when he was deprived of what Hurree",{"entites":[[59,73,"PERSON"],[59,73,"PERSON"],[59,73,"PERSON"]]}],["Chunder called 'adventitious aids' he might still tread his distances.",{"entites":[]}],["To keep count of thousands of paces, Hurree Chunder's experience had",{"entites":[[37,51,"PERSON"],[37,51,"PERSON"],[37,51,"PERSON"]]}],["shown him nothing more valuable than a rosary of eighty-one or a hundred",{"entites":[]}],["and eight beads, for 'it was divisible and sub-divisible into many",{"entites":[]}],["multiples and sub-multiples.' Through the volleying drifts of English,",{"entites":[[62,69,"LOC"],[62,69,"LOC"],[62,69,"LOC"]]}],["Kim caught the general trend of the talk, and it interested him very",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["much. Here was a new craft that a man could tuck away in his head; and",{"entites":[]}],["by the look of the large wide world unfolding itself before him, it",{"entites":[]}],["seemed that the more a man knew the better for him.",{"entites":[]}],["[Illustration: 'I am the woman of Shamlegh.']",{"entites":[[34,42,"PERSON"],[34,42,"PERSON"],[34,42,"PERSON"]]}],["Said the Babu when he had talked for an hour and a half, 'I hope some",{"entites":[[9,13,"PERSON"],[9,13,"PERSON"],[9,13,"PERSON"]]}],["day to enjoy your offeecial acquaintance. Ad interim, if I may be",{"entites":[]}],["pardoned that expression, I shall give you this betel-box which is",{"entites":[]}],["highly valuable article and cost me two rupees only four years ago.' It",{"entites":[]}],["was a cheap, heart-shaped brass thing with three compartments for",{"entites":[]}],["carrying the eternal betel-nut, lime and pan-leaf; but it was filled",{"entites":[]}],["with little tabloid-bottles. 'That is reward of merit for your",{"entites":[]}],["performance in character of that holy man. You see, you are so young you",{"entites":[]}],["think you will last for ever and not take care of your body. It is great",{"entites":[]}],["nuisance to go sick in the middle of business. I am fond of drugs",{"entites":[]}],["myself, and they are handy to cure poor people too. These are good",{"entites":[]}],["departmental drugs--quinine and so on. I give it you for souvenir. Now",{"entites":[]}],["good-bye. I have urgent private business here by the roadside.'",{"entites":[]}],["He slipped out noiselessly as a cat, on the Umballa road, hailed a",{"entites":[[44,51,"LOC"],[44,51,"LOC"],[44,51,"LOC"]]}],["passing ekka and jingled away, while Kim, tongue-tied, twiddled the",{"entites":[[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"],[37,40,"PERSON"]]}],["brass betel-box in his hands.",{"entites":[]}],["       *       *       *       *       *",{"entites":[]}],["The record of a boy's education interests few save his parents, and, as",{"entites":[]}],["you know, Kim was an orphan. It is written in the books of St. Xavier in",{"entites":[[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"],[59,69,"LOC"],[59,69,"LOC"],[59,69,"LOC"]]}],["Partibus that a report of Kim's progress was forwarded at the end of",{"entites":[[0,8,"LOC"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[0,8,"LOC"],[0,8,"LOC"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"]]}],["each term to Colonel Creighton and to Father Victor, from whose hands",{"entites":[[21,30,"PERSON"],[45,51,"PERSON"],[45,51,"PERSON"],[45,51,"PERSON"],[21,30,"PERSON"],[21,30,"PERSON"]]}],["duly came the money for his schooling. It is further recorded in the",{"entites":[]}],["same books that he showed a great aptitude for mathematical studies as",{"entites":[]}],["well as map-making, and carried away a prize ('The Life of Lord",{"entites":[]}],["Lawrence,' tree-calf, two vols., nine rupees, eight annas) for",{"entites":[[0,8,"PERSON"],[0,8,"PERSON"],[0,8,"PERSON"]]}],["proficiency therein; and the same term played in St. Xavier's eleven",{"entites":[[49,59,"LOC"],[49,59,"LOC"],[49,59,"LOC"]]}],["against the Allyghur Mohammedan College, his age being fourteen years",{"entites":[]}],["and ten months. He was also re-vaccinated (from which we may assume that",{"entites":[]}],["there had been another epidemic of small-pox at Lucknow) about the same",{"entites":[[48,55,"LOC"],[48,55,"LOC"],[48,55,"LOC"]]}],["time. Pencil notes on the edge of an old muster-roll record that he was",{"entites":[]}],["punished several times for 'conversing with improper persons,' and it",{"entites":[]}],["seems that he was once sentenced to heavy pains for 'absenting himself",{"entites":[]}],["for a day in the company of a street beggar.' That was when he got over",{"entites":[]}],["the gate and pleaded with the lama through a whole day down the banks of",{"entites":[]}],["the Goomtee to accompany him on the Road next holidays--for one",{"entites":[]}],["month--for a little week; and the lama set his face as a flint against",{"entites":[]}],["it, averring that the time had not yet come. Kim's business, said the",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["old man as they ate cakes together, was to get all the wisdom of the",{"entites":[]}],["Sahibs and then he would see. The hand of friendship must in some way",{"entites":[[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["have averted the whip of calamity, for six weeks later Kim seems to have",{"entites":[[55,58,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"]]}],["passed an examination in elementary surveying 'with great credit,' his",{"entites":[]}],["age being fifteen years and eight months. From this date the record is",{"entites":[]}],["silent. His name does not appear in the year's batch of those who",{"entites":[]}],["entered for the subordinate Survey of India, but against it stand the",{"entites":[[38,43,"LOC"],[38,43,"LOC"],[38,43,"LOC"]]}],["words 'removed on appointment.'",{"entites":[]}],["Several times in those three years, cast up at the Temple of the",{"entites":[]}],["Tirthankers in Benares the lama, a little thinner and a shade yellower,",{"entites":[[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"]]}],["if that were possible, but gentle and untainted as ever. Sometimes it",{"entites":[]}],["was from the South that he came--from south of Tuticorin, whence the",{"entites":[[47,56,"LOC"],[47,56,"LOC"],[47,56,"LOC"]]}],["wonderful fire-boats go to Ceylon where are priests who know Pali;",{"entites":[[61,65,"LOC"],[61,65,"LOC"],[61,65,"LOC"]]}],["sometimes it was from the wet green West and the thousand cotton-factory",{"entites":[[36,40,"LOC"],[36,40,"LOC"],[36,40,"LOC"]]}],["chimneys that ring Bombay; and once from the North, where he had doubled",{"entites":[[19,25,"LOC"],[19,25,"LOC"],[45,50,"LOC"],[19,25,"LOC"],[45,50,"LOC"],[45,50,"LOC"]]}],["back eight hundred miles to talk a day with the Keeper of the Images in",{"entites":[]}],["the Wonder House. He would stride to his cell in the cool, cut",{"entites":[]}],["marble--the priests of the temple were good to the old man--wash off the",{"entites":[]}],["dust of travel, make prayer, and depart for Lucknow, well accustomed now",{"entites":[[44,51,"LOC"],[44,51,"LOC"],[44,51,"LOC"]]}],["to the ways of the rail, in a third-class carriage. Returning, it was",{"entites":[]}],["noticeable, as his friend the Seeker pointed out to the head-priest,",{"entites":[]}],["that he ceased for a while to mourn the loss of his River, or to draw",{"entites":[]}],["wondrous pictures of the Wheel of Life, but preferred to talk of the",{"entites":[]}],["beauty and wisdom of a certain mysterious chela whom no man of the",{"entites":[]}],["temple had ever seen. Yes, he had followed the traces of the Blessed",{"entites":[]}],["Feet throughout all India. (The curator has still in his possession a",{"entites":[[20,25,"LOC"],[20,25,"LOC"],[20,25,"LOC"]]}],["most marvellous account of his wanderings and meditations.) There",{"entites":[]}],["remained nothing more in life but to find the River of the Arrow. Yet it",{"entites":[]}],["was shown to him in dreams that it was a matter not to be undertaken",{"entites":[]}],["with any hope of success unless that seeker had with him the one chela",{"entites":[]}],["appointed to bring the event to a happy issue, and versed in great",{"entites":[]}],["wisdom---such wisdom as white-haired Keepers of Images possess. For",{"entites":[]}],["example (here came out the snuff-gourd, and the kindly Jain priests made",{"entites":[]}],["haste to be silent):--",{"entites":[]}],["'Long and long ago, when Devadatta was King of Benares--let all listen",{"entites":[[47,54,"LOC"],[47,54,"LOC"],[47,54,"LOC"],[25,34,"PERSON"],[25,34,"PERSON"],[25,34,"PERSON"]]}],["to the \"Jataka\"!--an elephant was captured for a time by the king's",{"entites":[]}],["hunters and, ere he broke free, beringed with a grievous leg-iron. This",{"entites":[]}],["he strove to remove with hate and frenzy in his heart, and hurrying up",{"entites":[]}],["and down the forests, besought his brother-elephants to wrench it",{"entites":[]}],["asunder. One by one, with their strong trunks, they tried and failed. At",{"entites":[]}],["the last they gave it as their opinion that the ring was not to be",{"entites":[]}],["broken by any bestial power. And in a thicket, new-born, wet with the",{"entites":[]}],["moisture of birth, lay a day-old calf of the herd whose mother had died.",{"entites":[]}],["The fettered elephant, forgetting his own agony, said: \"If I do not help",{"entites":[]}],["this suckling it will perish under our feet.\" So he stood above the",{"entites":[]}],["young thing, making his legs buttresses against the uneasily moving",{"entites":[]}],["herd; and he begged milk of a virtuous cow, and the calf throve, and the",{"entites":[]}],["ringed elephant was the calf's guide and defence. Now the days of an",{"entites":[]}],["elephant--let all listen to the \"Jataka\"!--are thirty-five years to his",{"entites":[]}],["full strength, and through thirty-five Rains the ringed elephant",{"entites":[]}],["befriended the younger, and all the while the fetter ate into the flesh.",{"entites":[]}],["'Then one day the young elephant saw the half-buried iron, and turning",{"entites":[]}],["to the elder said: \"What is this?\" \"It is even my sorrow,\" said he who",{"entites":[]}],["had befriended him. Then that other put out his trunk and in the",{"entites":[]}],["twinkling of an eyelash abolished the ring, saying: \"The appointed time",{"entites":[]}],["has come.\" So the virtuous elephant who had waited temperately and done",{"entites":[]}],["kind acts was relieved, at the appointed time, by the very calf whom he",{"entites":[]}],["had turned aside to cherish--let all listen to the \"Jataka\"!--for the",{"entites":[]}],["Elephant was Ananda, and the Calf that broke the ring was none other",{"entites":[[13,19,"PERSON"],[13,19,"PERSON"],[13,19,"PERSON"]]}],["than The Lord Himself. . . .'",{"entites":[]}],["Then he would shake his head benignly, and over the ever-clicking rosary",{"entites":[]}],["point out how free that elephant calf was from the sin of pride. He was",{"entites":[]}],["as humble as a chela who, seeing his master sitting in the dust outside",{"entites":[]}],["the Gates of Learning, overleapt the gates (though they were locked) and",{"entites":[]}],["took his master to his heart in the presence of the proud-stomached",{"entites":[]}],["city. Rich would be the reward of such a master and such a chela when",{"entites":[]}],["the time came for them to seek freedom together!",{"entites":[]}],["So did the lama speak, coming and going across India as softly as a bat.",{"entites":[[47,52,"LOC"],[47,52,"LOC"],[47,52,"LOC"]]}],["A sharp-tongued old woman in a house among the fruit-trees behind",{"entites":[]}],["Saharunpore honoured him as the woman honoured the prophet, but his",{"entites":[[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"]]}],["chamber was by no means upon the wall. In an apartment of the forecourt",{"entites":[]}],["overlooked by cooing doves he would sit, while she laid aside her",{"entites":[]}],["useless veil and chattered of spirits and fiends of Kulu, of",{"entites":[[52,56,"LOC"],[52,56,"LOC"],[52,56,"LOC"]]}],["grandchildren unborn, and of the free-tongued brat who had talked to her",{"entites":[]}],["in the resting-place. Once, too, he strayed alone from the Grand Trunk",{"entites":[[59,75,"LOC"],[59,75,"LOC"],[59,75,"LOC"]]}],["Road below Umballa to the very village whose priest had tried to drug",{"entites":[[11,18,"LOC"],[11,18,"LOC"],[11,18,"LOC"]]}],["him; but the kind heaven that guards lamas sent him at twilight through",{"entites":[]}],["the crops, absorbed and unsuspicious, to the ressaldar's door. Here was",{"entites":[]}],["like to have been a grave misunderstanding, for the old soldier asked",{"entites":[]}],["him why the Friend of the Stars had gone that way only six days before.",{"entites":[]}],["'That may not be,' said the lama. 'He has gone back to his own people.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He sat in that corner telling a hundred merry tales five nights ago,'",{"entites":[]}],["his host insisted. 'True, he vanished somewhat suddenly in the dawn",{"entites":[]}],["after foolish talk with my grand-daughter. He grows apace, but he is the",{"entites":[]}],["same Friend of the Stars as brought me true word of the war. Have ye",{"entites":[]}],["parted?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Yes--and No,' the lama replied. 'We--we have not altogether parted, but",{"entites":[]}],["the time is not ripe that we should take the Road together. He acquires",{"entites":[]}],["wisdom in another place. We must wait.'",{"entites":[]}],["'All one--but if it were not the boy how did he come to speak so",{"entites":[]}],["continually of thee?'",{"entites":[]}],["'And what said he?' asked the lama eagerly.",{"entites":[]}],["'Sweet words--an hundred thousand--that thou art his father and mother",{"entites":[]}],["and such all. Pity that he does not take the Queen's service. He is",{"entites":[]}],["fearless.'",{"entites":[]}],["This news amazed the lama, who did not then know how religiously Kim",{"entites":[[65,68,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"]]}],["kept to the contract made with Mahbub Ali, and perforce ratified by",{"entites":[[31,41,"PERSON"],[31,41,"PERSON"],[31,41,"PERSON"]]}],["Colonel Creighton. . . .",{"entites":[[8,17,"PERSON"],[8,17,"PERSON"],[8,17,"PERSON"]]}],["'There is no holding the young pony from the game,' said the",{"entites":[]}],["horse-dealer when the Colonel pointed out that vagabonding over India in",{"entites":[[64,69,"LOC"],[64,69,"LOC"],[64,69,"LOC"]]}],["holiday time was absurd. 'If permission be refused to go and come as he",{"entites":[]}],["chooses, he will make light of the refusal. Then who is to catch him?",{"entites":[]}],["Colonel Sahib, only once in a thousand years is a horse born so well",{"entites":[[8,13,"PERSON"],[8,13,"PERSON"],[8,13,"PERSON"]]}],["fitted for the game as this our colt. And we need men.'",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER X",{"entites":[]}],["          Your tiercel's too long at hack, Sire. He's no eyass",{"entites":[]}],["          But a passage-hawk that footed ere we caught him,",{"entites":[]}],["          Dangerously free o' the air. Faith! were he mine",{"entites":[]}],["          (As mine's the glove he binds to for his tirings)",{"entites":[]}],["          I'd fly him with a make-hawk. He's in yarak",{"entites":[]}],["          Plumed to the very point--so manned so weathered . . .",{"entites":[]}],["          Give him the firmament God made him for,",{"entites":[]}],["          And what shall take the air of him?",{"entites":[]}],["                                                  --Old Play.",{"entites":[]}],["LURGAN SAHIB did not use as direct speech, but his advice tallied with",{"entites":[[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["Mahbub's; and the upshot was good for Kim. He knew better now than to",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["leave Lucknow city in native garb, and if Mahbub were anywhere within",{"entites":[[6,13,"LOC"],[42,48,"PERSON"],[6,13,"LOC"],[6,13,"LOC"],[42,48,"PERSON"],[42,48,"PERSON"]]}],["reach of a letter, it was to Mahbub's camp he headed, and made his",{"entites":[[29,35,"PERSON"],[29,35,"PERSON"],[29,35,"PERSON"]]}],["change under the Pathan's wary eye. Could the little Survey paint-box",{"entites":[]}],["that he used for map-tinting in term-time have found a tongue to tell of",{"entites":[]}],["holiday doings, he might have been expelled. Once Mahbub and he went",{"entites":[[50,56,"PERSON"],[50,56,"PERSON"],[50,56,"PERSON"]]}],["together as far as the beautiful city of Bombay, with three truck-loads",{"entites":[[41,47,"LOC"],[41,47,"LOC"],[41,47,"LOC"]]}],["of tram-horses, and Mahbub nearly melted when Kim proposed a sail in a",{"entites":[[46,49,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"]]}],["dhow across the Indian Ocean to buy Gulf Arabs, which he understood from",{"entites":[[23,28,"LOC"],[23,28,"LOC"],[16,22,"LOC"],[16,22,"LOC"],[16,22,"LOC"],[23,28,"LOC"]]}],["a hanger-on of the dealer Abdul Rahman, fetched better prices than mere",{"entites":[[26,38,"PERSON"],[26,38,"PERSON"],[26,38,"PERSON"]]}],["Cabulis.",{"entites":[]}],["He dipped his hand into the dish with that great trader when Mahbub and",{"entites":[[61,67,"PERSON"],[61,67,"PERSON"],[61,67,"PERSON"]]}],["a few co-religionists were invited to a big Haj dinner. They came back",{"entites":[]}],["by way of Karachi by sea, when Kim took his first experience of",{"entites":[[10,17,"LOC"],[10,17,"LOC"],[31,34,"PERSON"],[31,34,"PERSON"],[10,17,"LOC"],[31,34,"PERSON"]]}],["sea-sickness sitting on the fore-hatch of a coasting-steamer, well",{"entites":[]}],["persuaded he had been poisoned. The Babu's famous drug-box proved",{"entites":[[36,40,"PERSON"],[36,40,"PERSON"],[36,40,"PERSON"]]}],["useless, though Kim had restocked it at Bombay. Mahbub had business at",{"entites":[[48,54,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[40,46,"LOC"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[40,46,"LOC"],[48,54,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[40,46,"LOC"],[48,54,"PERSON"]]}],["Quetta, and there Kim, as Mahbub admitted, earned his keep, and perhaps",{"entites":[[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[26,32,"PERSON"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[26,32,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[0,6,"LOC"],[26,32,"PERSON"]]}],["a little over, by spending four curious days as scullion in the house of",{"entites":[]}],["a fat Commissariat sergeant, from whose office-box, in an auspicious",{"entites":[]}],["moment, he removed a little vellum ledger which he copied out--it seemed",{"entites":[]}],["to deal entirely with cattle and camel sales--by moonlight, lying behind",{"entites":[]}],["an outhouse, all through one hot night. Then he returned the ledger to",{"entites":[]}],["its place, and, at Mahbub's word, left that service unpaid, rejoining",{"entites":[[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"]]}],["him six miles down the road, the clean copy in his bosom.",{"entites":[]}],["'That soldier is a small fish,' Mahbub Ali explained, 'but in time we",{"entites":[[32,42,"PERSON"],[32,42,"PERSON"],[32,42,"PERSON"]]}],["shall catch the larger one. He only sells oxen at two prices--one for",{"entites":[]}],["himself and one for the Government--which I do not think is a sin.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Why could not I take away the little book and be done with it?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Then he would have been frightened, and he would have told his master.",{"entites":[]}],["Then we should miss, perhaps, a great number of new rifles which seek",{"entites":[]}],["their way up from Quetta to the North. The Game is so large that one",{"entites":[[18,24,"LOC"],[18,24,"LOC"],[18,24,"LOC"]]}],["sees but a little at a time.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oho!' said Kim, and held his tongue. That was in the monsoon holidays,",{"entites":[[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["after he had taken the prize for mathematics. The Christmas holidays he",{"entites":[]}],["spent--deducting ten days for private amusements--with Lurgan Sahib,",{"entites":[[55,67,"PERSON"],[55,67,"PERSON"],[55,67,"PERSON"]]}],["where he sat for the most part in front of a roaring wood-fire--Jakko-road",{"entites":[]}],["was four feet deep in snow that year--and--the small Hindu had gone away",{"entites":[]}],["to be married--helped Lurgan to thread pearls. He made Kim learn whole",{"entites":[[22,28,"LOC"],[55,58,"PERSON"],[55,58,"PERSON"],[22,28,"LOC"],[55,58,"PERSON"],[22,28,"LOC"]]}],["chapters of the Koran by heart, till he could deliver them with the very",{"entites":[]}],["roll and cadence of a mullah. Moreover, he told Kim the names and",{"entites":[[48,51,"PERSON"],[48,51,"PERSON"],[48,51,"PERSON"]]}],["properties of many native drugs, as well as the runes proper to recite",{"entites":[]}],["when you administer them. And in the evenings he wrote charms on",{"entites":[]}],["parchment--elaborate pentagrams crowned with the names of devils--Murra,",{"entites":[[66,71,"PERSON"],[66,71,"PERSON"],[66,71,"PERSON"]]}],["and Awan the Companion of Kings--all fantastically written in the",{"entites":[[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"]]}],["corners. More to the point, he advised Kim as to the care of his own",{"entites":[[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["body, the cure of fever-fits, and simple remedies of the Road. A week",{"entites":[[57,61,"LOC"],[57,61,"LOC"],[57,61,"LOC"]]}],["before it was time to go down, Colonel Creighton Sahib--this was",{"entites":[[39,54,"PERSON"],[39,54,"PERSON"],[39,54,"PERSON"]]}],["unfair--sent Kim a written examination-paper that concerned itself",{"entites":[[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"]]}],["solely with rods and chains and links and angles.",{"entites":[]}],["Next holidays he was out with Mahbub, and here, by the way, he nearly",{"entites":[[30,36,"PERSON"],[30,36,"PERSON"],[30,36,"PERSON"]]}],["died of thirst, plodding through the sand on a camel to the mysterious",{"entites":[]}],["city of Bikaneer, where the wells are four hundred feet deep, and lined",{"entites":[[8,16,"LOC"],[8,16,"LOC"],[8,16,"LOC"]]}],["throughout with camel-bone. It was not an amusing trip from Kim's point",{"entites":[[60,63,"PERSON"],[60,63,"PERSON"],[60,63,"PERSON"]]}],["of view, because--in defiance of the contract--the Colonel ordered him",{"entites":[]}],["to make a map of that wild, walled city; and since Mohammedan horse-boys",{"entites":[]}],["and pipe-tenders are not expected to drag Survey-chains round the",{"entites":[]}],["capital of an independent native state, Kim was forced to pace all his",{"entites":[[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"]]}],["distances by means of a bead rosary. He used the compass for bearings as",{"entites":[]}],["occasion served--after dark chiefly, when the camels had been fed--and",{"entites":[]}],["by the help of his little Survey paint-box of six colour-cakes and three",{"entites":[]}],["brushes, he achieved something not remotely unlike the city of",{"entites":[]}],["Jeysalmir. Mahbub laughed a great deal, and advised him to make up a",{"entites":[[11,17,"PERSON"],[0,9,"LOC"],[0,9,"LOC"],[11,17,"PERSON"],[0,9,"LOC"],[11,17,"PERSON"]]}],["written report as well; and in the back of the big account-book that lay",{"entites":[]}],["under the flap of Mahbub's pet saddle Kim fell to work.",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["'It must hold everything that thou hast seen or touched or considered.",{"entites":[]}],["Write as though the Jung-i-Lat Sahib himself had come by stealth with a",{"entites":[[20,36,"PERSON"],[20,36,"PERSON"],[20,36,"PERSON"]]}],["vast army outsetting to war.'",{"entites":[]}],["'How great an army?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, half a lakh of men.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Folly! Remember how few and bad were the wells in the sand. Not a",{"entites":[]}],["thousand thirsty men could come near by here.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Then write that down--also all the old breaches in the walls--and",{"entites":[]}],["whence the firewood is cut--and what is the temper and disposition of",{"entites":[]}],["the King. I stay here till all my horses are sold. I will hire a room by",{"entites":[]}],["the gateway, and thou shalt be my accountant. There is a good lock to",{"entites":[]}],["the door.'",{"entites":[]}],["The report in its unmistakable St. Xavier's running script, and the",{"entites":[[35,41,"PERSON"],[35,41,"PERSON"],[35,41,"PERSON"]]}],["brown, yellow, and lake-daubed map, was on hand a few years ago (a",{"entites":[]}],["careless clerk filed it with the rough notes of E.23's second Seistan",{"entites":[]}],["survey), but by now the pencil characters must be almost illegible. Kim",{"entites":[[68,71,"PERSON"],[68,71,"PERSON"],[68,71,"PERSON"]]}],["translated it, sweating under the light of an oil-lamp, to Mahbub, the",{"entites":[[59,65,"PERSON"],[59,65,"PERSON"],[59,65,"PERSON"]]}],["second day of their return-journey. The Pathan rose and stooped over his",{"entites":[]}],["dappled saddle-bags.",{"entites":[]}],["'I knew it would be worthy a dress of honour, and so I made one ready,'",{"entites":[]}],["he said smiling. 'Were I Amir of Afghanistan (and some day we may see",{"entites":[[33,44,"LOC"],[33,44,"LOC"],[25,29,"PERSON"],[33,44,"LOC"]]}],["him), I would fill thy mouth with gold.' He laid the garments formally",{"entites":[]}],["at Kim's feet. There was a gold-embroidered Peshawur turban-cap, rising",{"entites":[[3,6,"PERSON"],[3,6,"PERSON"],[3,6,"PERSON"]]}],["to a cone, and a big turban-cloth ending in a broad fringe of gold.",{"entites":[]}],["There was a Delhi embroidered waistcoat to slip over a milky-white",{"entites":[[12,17,"LOC"],[12,17,"LOC"],[12,17,"LOC"]]}],["shirt, fastening to the right, ample and flowing; green pyjamas with",{"entites":[]}],["twisted silk waist-string; and that nothing might be lacking,",{"entites":[]}],["russia-leather slippers, smelling divinely, with arrogantly curled tips.",{"entites":[]}],["'Upon a Wednesday, and in the morning, to put on new clothes is",{"entites":[]}],["auspicious,' said Mahbub solemnly. 'But we must not forget the wicked",{"entites":[[18,24,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"]]}],["folk in the world. So!'",{"entites":[]}],["He capped all the splendour, that was taking Kim's delighted breath",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["away, with a mother-of-pearl, nickel-plated, self-extracting .450",{"entites":[]}],["revolver.",{"entites":[]}],["'I had thought of a smaller bore, but reflected that this takes",{"entites":[]}],["Government bullets. A man can always come by those--especially across",{"entites":[]}],["the Border. Stand up and let me look.' He clapped Kim on the shoulder.",{"entites":[[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"]]}],["'May you never be tired, Pathan! Oh, the hearts to be broken! Oh, the",{"entites":[[25,31,"PERSON"],[25,31,"PERSON"],[25,31,"PERSON"]]}],["eyes under the eyelashes, looking sideways!'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim turned about, pointed his toes, stretched, and felt mechanically for",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["the moustache that was just beginning. Then he stooped towards Mahbub's",{"entites":[[63,69,"PERSON"],[63,69,"PERSON"],[63,69,"PERSON"]]}],["feet to make proper acknowledgment with fluttering, quick-patting hands;",{"entites":[]}],["his heart too full for words. Mahbub forestalled and embraced him.",{"entites":[[30,36,"PERSON"],[30,36,"PERSON"],[30,36,"PERSON"]]}],["'My son,' said he, 'what need of words between us? But is not the little",{"entites":[]}],["gun a delight? All six cartridges come out at one twist. It is borne in",{"entites":[]}],["the bosom next the skin, which, as it were, keeps it oiled. Never put",{"entites":[]}],["it elsewhere, and please God, thou shalt some day kill a man with it.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Hai mai!' said Kim ruefully. 'If a Sahib kills a man he is hung in the",{"entites":[[16,19,"PERSON"],[36,41,"PERSON"],[1,8,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[1,8,"PERSON"],[36,41,"PERSON"],[36,41,"PERSON"]]}],["jail.'",{"entites":[]}],["'True: but one pace beyond the Border, men are wiser. Put it away; but",{"entites":[]}],["fill it first. Of what use is a gun unfed?'",{"entites":[]}],["'When I go back to the madrissah I must return it. They do not allow",{"entites":[]}],["little guns. Thou wilt keep it for me?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Son, I am wearied of that madrissah, where they take the best years of",{"entites":[]}],["a man to teach him what he can only learn upon the Road. The folly of",{"entites":[]}],["the Sahibs has neither top nor bottom. No matter. Maybe thy written",{"entites":[]}],["report shall save thee further bondage; and God He knows we need men",{"entites":[]}],["more and more in the Game.'",{"entites":[]}],["They marched, jaw-bound against blowing sand, across the salt desert to",{"entites":[]}],["Jodhpore, where Mahbub and his handsome nephew Habib-Ullah did much",{"entites":[[47,58,"PERSON"],[16,22,"PERSON"],[47,58,"PERSON"],[0,8,"LOC"],[47,58,"PERSON"],[0,8,"LOC"],[16,22,"PERSON"],[16,22,"PERSON"],[0,8,"LOC"]]}],["trading; and then sorrowfully, in European clothes, which he was fast",{"entites":[[34,42,"LOC"],[34,42,"LOC"],[34,42,"LOC"]]}],["outgrowing, Kim went second-class to St. Xavier's. 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Besides, he knows no Turki.'",{"entites":[[28,33,"PERSON"],[28,33,"PERSON"],[28,33,"PERSON"]]}],["'Only tell him the shape and the smell of the letters we want and he",{"entites":[]}],["will bring them back,' Lurgan insisted.",{"entites":[[23,29,"LOC"],[23,29,"LOC"],[23,29,"LOC"]]}],["'No. That is a man's job,' said Creighton.",{"entites":[[32,41,"PERSON"],[32,41,"PERSON"],[32,41,"PERSON"]]}],["It was a wry-necked matter of unauthorised and incendiary correspondence",{"entites":[]}],["between a person who claimed to be the ultimate authority in all matters",{"entites":[]}],["of the Mohammedan religion throughout the world, and a younger member",{"entites":[]}],["of a royal house who had been brought to book for kidnapping women",{"entites":[]}],["within British territory. 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We have",{"entites":[[25,29,"PERSON"],[25,29,"PERSON"],[25,29,"PERSON"]]}],["watched him for three years. Red Lamas are not so common in Hind that",{"entites":[[60,64,"LOC"],[60,64,"LOC"],[60,64,"LOC"]]}],["one loses track.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Babus are very curious,' said Lurgan meditatively. 'Do you know what",{"entites":[[31,37,"LOC"],[31,37,"LOC"],[31,37,"LOC"]]}],["Hurree Babu really wants? He wants to be made a member of the Royal",{"entites":[[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"]]}],["Society by taking ethnological notes. I tell you, I tell him about the",{"entites":[]}],["lama everything that Mahbub and the boy have told me. Hurree Babu goes",{"entites":[[21,27,"PERSON"],[54,65,"PERSON"],[21,27,"PERSON"],[54,65,"PERSON"],[54,65,"PERSON"],[21,27,"PERSON"]]}],["down to Benares--at his own expense, I think.'",{"entites":[[8,15,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"]]}],["'I don't,' said Creighton briefly. 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'He can go with the",{"entites":[[24,33,"PERSON"],[24,33,"PERSON"],[24,33,"PERSON"]]}],["lama, and if Hurree Babu cares to keep an eye on them so much the",{"entites":[[13,24,"PERSON"],[13,24,"PERSON"],[13,24,"PERSON"]]}],["better. He won't lead the boy into any danger as Mahbub would.",{"entites":[[49,55,"PERSON"],[49,55,"PERSON"],[49,55,"PERSON"]]}],["Curious--his wish to be an F. R. S. Very human, too. He is best on the",{"entites":[]}],["Ethnological side--Hurree.'",{"entites":[[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"]]}],["No money and no preferment would have drawn Creighton from his work on",{"entites":[[44,53,"PERSON"],[44,53,"PERSON"],[44,53,"PERSON"]]}],["the Indian Survey, but deep in his heart also lay the ambition to write",{"entites":[[4,10,"LOC"],[4,10,"LOC"],[4,10,"LOC"]]}],["'F. R. S.' after his name. Honours of a sort he knew could be obtained",{"entites":[[1,9,"PERSON"],[1,9,"PERSON"],[1,9,"PERSON"]]}],["by ingenuity and the help of friends, but, to the best of his belief,",{"entites":[]}],["nothing save work--papers representing a life of it--took a man into the",{"entites":[]}],["Society which he had bombarded for years with monographs on strange",{"entites":[]}],["Asiatic cults and unknown customs. 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For six months he shall run at his choice: but who will",{"entites":[]}],["be his sponsor?'",{"entites":[]}],["Lurgan slightly inclined his head. 'He will not tell anything, if that",{"entites":[[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["is what you are afraid of, Colonel Creighton.'",{"entites":[[35,44,"PERSON"],[35,44,"PERSON"],[35,44,"PERSON"]]}],["[Illustration: He crossed his hands on his lap and smiled, as a man who",{"entites":[]}],["has won Salvation for himself and his beloved.]",{"entites":[]}],["'It's only a boy, after all.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ye-es; but first, he has nothing to tell; and secondly, he knows what",{"entites":[]}],["would happen. Also, he is very fond of Mahbub, and of me a little.'",{"entites":[[39,45,"PERSON"],[39,45,"PERSON"],[39,45,"PERSON"]]}],["'Will he draw pay?' demanded the practical horse-dealer.",{"entites":[]}],["'Food and water allowance only. Twenty rupees a month.'",{"entites":[]}],["One advantage of the Secret Service is that it has no worrying audit.",{"entites":[]}],["The service is ludicrously starved, of course, but the funds are",{"entites":[]}],["administered by a few men who do not call for vouchers or present",{"entites":[]}],["itemised accounts. Mahbub's eyes lighted with almost a Sikh's love of",{"entites":[[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"]]}],["money. Even Lurgan's impassive face changed. He considered the years to",{"entites":[[12,18,"LOC"],[12,18,"LOC"],[12,18,"LOC"]]}],["come when Kim would have been entered and made to the Great Game that",{"entites":[[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"]]}],["never ceases day and night, throughout India. He foresaw honour and",{"entites":[[39,44,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"]]}],["credit in the mouths of a chosen few, coming to him from his pupil.",{"entites":[]}],["Lurgan Sahib had made E.23 what E.23 was, out of a bewildered,",{"entites":[[0,12,"PERSON"],[0,12,"PERSON"],[0,12,"PERSON"]]}],["impertinent, lying, little North-West Province man.",{"entites":[]}],["But the joy of these masters was pale and smoky beside the joy of Kim",{"entites":[[66,69,"PERSON"],[66,69,"PERSON"],[66,69,"PERSON"]]}],["when St. Xavier's Head called him aside, with word that Colonel",{"entites":[[5,15,"PERSON"],[5,15,"PERSON"],[5,15,"PERSON"]]}],["Creighton had sent for him.",{"entites":[[0,9,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"],[0,9,"PERSON"]]}],["'I understand, O'Hara, that he has found you a place as an assistant",{"entites":[[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"]]}],["chain-man in the Canal Department: that comes of taking up mathematics.",{"entites":[]}],["It is great luck for you, for you are only seventeen; but of course you",{"entites":[]}],["understand that you do not become pukka (permanent) till you have passed",{"entites":[]}],["the autumn examination. So you must not think you are going out into the",{"entites":[]}],["world to enjoy yourself, or that your fortune is made. There is a great",{"entites":[]}],["deal of hard work before you. Only, if you succeed in becoming pukka,",{"entites":[]}],["you can rise, you know, to four hundred and fifty a month.' Whereat the",{"entites":[]}],["Principal gave him much good advice as to his conduct, and his manners,",{"entites":[]}],["and his morals; and others, his elders, who had not been wafted into",{"entites":[]}],["billets, talked, as only Anglo-Indian lads can, of favouritism and",{"entites":[]}],["corruption. 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Is it indeed all finished, O my father?'",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub snapped his fingers to show the utterness of that end, and his",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["eyes blazed like red coals.",{"entites":[]}],["'Then where is the pistol that I may wear it?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Softly! A half-year, to run without heel-ropes. I begged that much from",{"entites":[]}],["Colonel Creighton Sahib. At twenty rupees a month. Old Red Hat knows",{"entites":[[8,23,"PERSON"],[8,23,"PERSON"],[8,23,"PERSON"]]}],["that thou art coming.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I will pay thee dustoorie (commission) on my pay for three months,'",{"entites":[]}],["said Kim gravely. 'Yea, two rupees a month. But first we must get rid of",{"entites":[[5,8,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"]]}],["these.' He plucked his thin linen trousers and dragged at his collar. 'I",{"entites":[]}],["have brought with me all that I need on the Road. My trunk has gone up",{"entites":[]}],["to Lurgan Sahib's.'",{"entites":[[10,15,"LOC"],[3,9,"LOC"],[3,9,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"],[3,9,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"]]}],["'Who sends his salaams to thee--Sahib.'",{"entites":[[32,37,"PERSON"],[32,37,"PERSON"],[32,37,"PERSON"]]}],["'Lurgan Sahib is a very clever man. But what dost thou do?'",{"entites":[[1,13,"PERSON"],[1,13,"PERSON"],[1,13,"PERSON"]]}],["'I go North again, upon the Great Game. What else? Is thy mind still set",{"entites":[]}],["on following old Red Hat?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Do not forget he made me that I am--though he did not know it. Year by",{"entites":[]}],["year, he sent the money that taught me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I would have done as much--had it struck my thick head,' Mahbub",{"entites":[[58,64,"PERSON"],[58,64,"PERSON"],[58,64,"PERSON"]]}],["growled. 'Come away. The lamps are lit now, and none will mark thee in",{"entites":[]}],["the bazar. We go to Huneefa's house.'",{"entites":[[20,27,"PERSON"],[20,27,"PERSON"],[20,27,"PERSON"]]}],["On the way thither, Mahbub gave him much the same sort of advice as his",{"entites":[[20,26,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"]]}],["mother gave to Lemuel, and curiously enough, Mahbub was exact to point",{"entites":[[45,51,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"],[45,51,"PERSON"],[45,51,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"]]}],["out how Huneefa and her likes destroyed kings.",{"entites":[[8,15,"PERSON"],[8,15,"PERSON"],[8,15,"PERSON"]]}],["'And I remember,' he quoted maliciously, 'one who said, \"Trust a snake",{"entites":[]}],["before a harlot and a harlot before a Pathan, Mahbub Ali.\" Now,",{"entites":[[46,56,"PERSON"],[46,56,"PERSON"],[46,56,"PERSON"]]}],["excepting as to Pathans, of whom I am one, all that is true. 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He is very good to look",{"entites":[]}],["upon.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is part of the selling of the horse,' Mahbub explained to Kim, who",{"entites":[[64,67,"PERSON"],[64,67,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"],[64,67,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"]]}],["laughed.",{"entites":[]}],["'I have heard that talk since my Sixth Day,' he replied, squatting by",{"entites":[]}],["the light. 'Whither does it lead?'",{"entites":[]}],["'To protection. To-night we change thy colour. This sleeping under roofs",{"entites":[]}],["has blanched thee like an almond. But Huneefa has the secret of a colour",{"entites":[[38,45,"PERSON"],[38,45,"PERSON"],[38,45,"PERSON"]]}],["that catches. No painting of a day or two. Also, we fortify thee against",{"entites":[]}],["the chances of the Road. That is my gift to thee, my son. Take out all",{"entites":[[19,23,"LOC"],[19,23,"LOC"],[19,23,"LOC"]]}],["metals on thee and lay them here. Make ready, Huneefa.'",{"entites":[[46,53,"PERSON"],[46,53,"PERSON"],[46,53,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim dragged forth his compass, Survey paint-box, and the new-filled",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["medicine-box. They had all accompanied his travels, and boy-like he",{"entites":[]}],["valued them immensely.",{"entites":[]}],["The woman rose slowly and moved with her hands a little spread before",{"entites":[]}],["her. Then Kim saw that she was blind. 'No, no,' she muttered, 'the",{"entites":[[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"],[10,13,"PERSON"]]}],["Pathan speaks truth--my colour does not go in a week or a month, and",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["those whom I protect are under strong guard.'",{"entites":[]}],["'When one is far off and alone, it would not be well to grow blotched",{"entites":[]}],["and leprous of a sudden,' said Mahbub. 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I will lay a plot for their ruin! O Prophet, bear with the",{"entites":[]}],["unbelievers. Let them alone awhile!' Huneefa's face, turned to the",{"entites":[[37,44,"PERSON"],[37,44,"PERSON"],[37,44,"PERSON"]]}],["northward, worked horribly, and it was as though voices from the ceiling",{"entites":[]}],["answered her.",{"entites":[]}],["Hurree Babu returned to his note-book, balanced on the window-sill, but",{"entites":[[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"]]}],["his hand shook. Huneefa, in some sort of drugged ecstasy, wrenched",{"entites":[[16,23,"PERSON"],[16,23,"PERSON"],[16,23,"PERSON"]]}],["herself to and fro as she sat cross-legged by Kim's still head, and",{"entites":[[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"]]}],["called upon devil after devil, in the ancient order of the ritual,",{"entites":[]}],["binding them to avoid the boy's every action.",{"entites":[]}],["'With Him are the keys of the Secret Things! None knoweth them beside",{"entites":[]}],["Himself. He knoweth that which is in the dry land and in the sea!' Again",{"entites":[]}],["broke out the unearthly whistling responses.",{"entites":[]}],["'I--I apprehend it is not at all malignant in its operation?' said the",{"entites":[]}],["Babu, watching the throat-muscles quiver and jerk as Huneefa spoke with",{"entites":[[0,4,"PERSON"],[0,4,"PERSON"],[0,4,"PERSON"],[53,60,"PERSON"],[53,60,"PERSON"],[53,60,"PERSON"]]}],["tongues. 'It--it is not likely that she has killed the boy? If so, I",{"entites":[]}],["decline to be witness at the trial. . . . What was the last hypothetical",{"entites":[]}],["devil mentioned?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Babuji,' said Mahbub in the vernacular. 'I have no regard for the",{"entites":[[15,21,"PERSON"],[1,7,"PERSON"],[1,7,"PERSON"],[1,7,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"]]}],["devils of Hind, but the Sons of Eblis are far otherwise, and whether",{"entites":[[10,14,"LOC"],[10,14,"LOC"],[10,14,"LOC"]]}],["they be jumalee (well-affected) or jullalee (terrible) they love not",{"entites":[]}],["Kafirs.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Then you think I had better go?' said Hurree Babu, half rising. 'They",{"entites":[[39,50,"PERSON"],[39,50,"PERSON"],[39,50,"PERSON"]]}],["are, of course, dematerialised phenomena. Spencer says--'",{"entites":[[42,49,"PERSON"],[42,49,"PERSON"],[42,49,"PERSON"]]}],["Huneefa's crisis passed, as these things must, in a paroxysm of howling,",{"entites":[[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"]]}],["with a touch of froth at the lips. She lay spent and motionless beside",{"entites":[]}],["Kim, and the crazy voices ceased.",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'Wah! That work is done. May the boy be better for it; and Huneefa is",{"entites":[[59,66,"LOC"],[1,4,"PERSON"],[1,4,"PERSON"],[1,4,"PERSON"],[59,66,"LOC"],[59,66,"LOC"]]}],["surely a mistress of dawut. Help haul her aside, Babu. Do not be",{"entites":[[49,53,"PERSON"],[49,53,"PERSON"],[49,53,"PERSON"]]}],["afraid.'",{"entites":[]}],["'How am I to fear the absolutely non-existent?' said Hurree Babu,",{"entites":[[53,64,"PERSON"],[53,64,"PERSON"],[53,64,"PERSON"]]}],["talking English to reassure himself. It is an awful thing still to dread",{"entites":[[8,15,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"],[8,15,"LOC"]]}],["the magic that you contemptuously investigate--to collect folk-lore for",{"entites":[]}],["the Royal Society with a lively belief in all Powers of Darkness.",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub chuckled. He had been out with Hurree on the Road ere now. 'Let",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[38,44,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[38,44,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[38,44,"PERSON"]]}],["us finish the colouring,' said he. 'The boy is well protected if--if the",{"entites":[]}],["Lords of the Air have ears to hear. I am a sufi (free-thinker), but when",{"entites":[]}],["one can get blind-sides of a woman, a stallion, or a devil, why go round",{"entites":[]}],["to invite a kick? Set him upon the way, Babu, and see that old Red Hat",{"entites":[[40,44,"PERSON"],[40,44,"PERSON"],[40,44,"PERSON"]]}],["does not lead him beyond our reach. I must get back to my horses.'",{"entites":[]}],["'All raight,' said Hurree Babu. 'He is at present a curious spectacle.'",{"entites":[[19,30,"PERSON"],[19,30,"PERSON"],[19,30,"PERSON"]]}],["       *       *       *       *       *",{"entites":[]}],["About third cock-crow, Kim woke after a sleep of thousands of years.",{"entites":[[23,26,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"]]}],["Huneefa, in her corner, snored heavily, but Mahbub was gone.",{"entites":[[44,50,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"]]}],["'I hope you were not frightened,' said an oily voice at his elbow. 'I",{"entites":[]}],["superintended entire operation, which was most interesting from",{"entites":[]}],["ethnological point of view. It was high-class dawut.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Huh!' said Kim, recognising Hurree Babu, who smiled ingratiatingly.",{"entites":[[29,40,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[29,40,"PERSON"],[29,40,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["'And also I had honour to bring down from Lurgan your present costume. I",{"entites":[[42,48,"LOC"],[42,48,"LOC"],[42,48,"LOC"]]}],["am not in the habit offeecially of carrying such gauds to subordinates,",{"entites":[]}],["but'--he giggled--'your case is noted as exceptional on the books. I",{"entites":[]}],["hope Mr. Lurgan will note my action.'",{"entites":[[9,15,"PERSON"],[9,15,"PERSON"],[9,15,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim yawned and stretched himself. It was good to turn and twist within",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["loose clothes once again.",{"entites":[]}],["'What is this?' He looked curiously at the heavy duffle-stuff loaded",{"entites":[]}],["with the scents of the far North.",{"entites":[]}],["'Oho! That is inconspicuous dress of chela attached to service of",{"entites":[]}],["lamaistic lama. Com-plete in every particular,' said Hurree Babu,",{"entites":[[53,64,"PERSON"],[53,64,"PERSON"],[53,64,"PERSON"]]}],["rolling into the balcony to clean his teeth at a goglet. 'I am of",{"entites":[]}],["opeenion it is not your old gentleman's precise religion, but rather",{"entites":[]}],["sub-variant of same. I have contributed rejected notes to \"Asiatic",{"entites":[]}],["Quarterly Review\" on these subjects. Now it is curious that the old",{"entites":[]}],["gentleman himself is totally devoid of religiosity. He is not a dam",{"entites":[]}],["particular.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Do you know him?'",{"entites":[]}],["Hurree Babu held up his hand to show he was engaged in the prescribed",{"entites":[[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"]]}],["rites that accompany tooth-cleaning and such things among decently bred",{"entites":[]}],["Bengalis. Then he recited in English an Arya-Somaj prayer of a",{"entites":[[29,36,"LOC"],[29,36,"LOC"],[29,36,"LOC"]]}],["theistical nature, and stuffed his mouth with pan and betel.",{"entites":[]}],["'Oah yes. I have met him several times at Benares, and also at Buddh",{"entites":[[63,68,"LOC"],[63,68,"LOC"],[42,49,"LOC"],[63,68,"LOC"],[42,49,"LOC"],[42,49,"LOC"]]}],["Gaya, to interrogate him on religious points and devil-worship. He is",{"entites":[[0,4,"LOC"],[0,4,"LOC"],[0,4,"LOC"]]}],["pure agnostic--same as me.'",{"entites":[]}],["Huneefa stirred in her sleep, and Hurree Babu jumped nervously to the",{"entites":[[34,45,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[34,45,"PERSON"],[34,45,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"]]}],["copper incense-burner, all black and discoloured in morning-light,",{"entites":[]}],["rubbed a finger in the accumulated lampblack, and drew it diagonally",{"entites":[]}],["across his face.",{"entites":[]}],["'Who has died in thy house?' asked Kim in the vernacular.",{"entites":[[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"]]}],["'None. But she may have the Evil Eye--that sorceress,' the Babu replied.",{"entites":[[59,63,"PERSON"],[59,63,"PERSON"],[59,63,"PERSON"]]}],["'What dost thou do now, then?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I will set thee on thy way to Benares, if thou goest thither, and tell",{"entites":[[31,38,"LOC"],[31,38,"LOC"],[31,38,"LOC"]]}],["thee what must be known by Us.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I go. At what hour runs the te-rain?' He rose to his feet, looked round",{"entites":[]}],["the desolate chamber and at the yellow-wax face of Huneefa as the low",{"entites":[[51,58,"LOC"],[51,58,"LOC"],[51,58,"LOC"]]}],["sun stole across the floor. 'Is there money to be paid that witch?'",{"entites":[]}],["'No. She has charmed thee against all devils and all dangers--in the",{"entites":[]}],["name of her devils. It was Mahbub's desire.' In English: 'He is highly",{"entites":[[27,33,"PERSON"],[48,55,"LOC"],[27,33,"PERSON"],[48,55,"LOC"],[48,55,"LOC"],[27,33,"PERSON"]]}],["obsolete, I think, to indulge in such supersteetion. Why, it is all",{"entites":[]}],["ventrilo-quy. Belly-speak--eh?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim snapped his fingers mechanically to avert whatever evil--Mahbub, he",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[61,67,"PERSON"],[61,67,"PERSON"],[61,67,"PERSON"]]}],["knew, meditated none--might have crept in through Huneefa's",{"entites":[[50,57,"PERSON"],[50,57,"PERSON"],[50,57,"PERSON"]]}],["ministrations; and Hurree giggled once more. But as he crossed the room",{"entites":[[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"],[19,25,"PERSON"]]}],["he was careful not to step in Huneefa's blotched, squat shadow on the",{"entites":[[30,37,"PERSON"],[30,37,"PERSON"],[30,37,"PERSON"]]}],["boards. Witches--when their time is on them--can lay hold of the heels",{"entites":[]}],["of a man's soul if he does that.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now you must well listen,' said the Babu when they were in the fresh",{"entites":[[37,41,"PERSON"],[37,41,"PERSON"],[37,41,"PERSON"]]}],["air. 'Part of these ceremonies which we witnessed they include supply",{"entites":[]}],["of effeecient amulet to those of our Department. If you feel in your",{"entites":[]}],["neck you will find one small silver amulet, verree cheap. That is ours.",{"entites":[]}],["Do you understand?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oah yes, hawa-dilli' (a heart-lifter), said Kim, feeling at his neck.",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["'Huneefa she makes them for two rupees twelve annas with--oh, all sorts",{"entites":[[1,8,"PERSON"],[1,8,"PERSON"],[1,8,"PERSON"]]}],["of exorcisms. They are quite common, except they are partially black",{"entites":[]}],["enamel, and there is a paper inside each one full of names of local",{"entites":[]}],["saints and such things. Thatt is Huneefa's look-out, you see? Huneefa",{"entites":[[62,69,"PERSON"],[33,40,"PERSON"],[33,40,"PERSON"],[62,69,"PERSON"],[62,69,"PERSON"],[33,40,"PERSON"]]}],["makes them onlee for us, but in case she does not, when we get them we",{"entites":[]}],["put in, before issue, one small piece of turquoise. Mr. Lurgan, he",{"entites":[[56,62,"PERSON"],[56,62,"PERSON"],[56,62,"PERSON"]]}],["gives, them. There is no other source of supply; but it was me invented",{"entites":[]}],["all this. It is strictly unoffeecial of course, but convenient for",{"entites":[]}],["subordinates. Colonel Creighton he does not know. He is European. The",{"entites":[[22,31,"PERSON"],[22,31,"PERSON"],[56,64,"LOC"],[56,64,"LOC"],[56,64,"LOC"],[22,31,"PERSON"]]}],["turquoise is wrapped in the paper. . . . Yes, that is road to railway",{"entites":[]}],["station. . . . Now suppose you go with the lama, or with me, I hope,",{"entites":[]}],["some day, or with Mahbub. Suppose we get into a dam-tight place. I am a",{"entites":[[18,24,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"]]}],["fearful man--most fearful--but I tell you I have been in dam-tight",{"entites":[]}],["places more than hairs on my head. You say: \"I am Son of the Charm.\"",{"entites":[]}],["Verree good.'",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["'I do not understand quite. We must not be heard talking English here.'",{"entites":[[57,64,"LOC"],[57,64,"LOC"],[57,64,"LOC"]]}],["'That is all raight. I am only Babu showing off my English to you. All",{"entites":[[51,58,"LOC"],[31,35,"PERSON"],[51,58,"LOC"],[51,58,"LOC"],[31,35,"PERSON"],[31,35,"PERSON"]]}],["we Babus talk English to show off,' said Hurree, flinging his",{"entites":[[41,47,"PERSON"],[14,21,"LOC"],[41,47,"PERSON"],[14,21,"LOC"],[14,21,"LOC"],[41,47,"PERSON"]]}],["shoulder-cloth jauntily. 'As I was about to say, \"Son of the Charm\"",{"entites":[]}],["means that you may be member of the Sat Bhai--the Seven Brothers, which",{"entites":[[40,44,"PERSON"],[40,44,"PERSON"],[40,44,"PERSON"]]}],["is Hindi and Tantric. It is popularly supposed to be extinct society,",{"entites":[]}],["but I have written notes to show it is still extant. You see it is all",{"entites":[]}],["my invention. Verree good. Sat Bhai has many members, and perhaps before",{"entites":[[31,35,"PERSON"],[31,35,"PERSON"],[31,35,"PERSON"]]}],["they jolly-well-cut-your-throat they may give you just a chance for",{"entites":[]}],["life. That is useful, anyhow. And, moreover, these foolish natives--if",{"entites":[]}],["they are not too excited--they always stop to think before they kill a",{"entites":[]}],["man who says he belongs to any specific organisation. You see? You say",{"entites":[]}],["then when you are in tight place, \"I am Son of the Charm,\" and you",{"entites":[]}],["get--perhaps--ah--your second wind. That is only in extreme instances,",{"entites":[]}],["or to open negotiations with a stranger. Can you quite see? Verree good.",{"entites":[]}],["But suppose now, I, or any one of the Department, come to you dressed",{"entites":[]}],["quite different. You would not know me at all unless I choose, I bet",{"entites":[]}],["you. Some day I will prove it. I come as Ladakhi trader--oh",{"entites":[]}],["anything--and I say to you: \"You want to buy precious stones?\" You say:",{"entites":[]}],["\"Do I look like a man who buys precious stones?\" Then I say: \"Even",{"entites":[]}],["verree poor man can buy a turquoise or tarkeean.\"'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is kichree--vegetable curry,' said Kim.",{"entites":[[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"],[41,44,"PERSON"]]}],["'Of course it is. You say: \"Let me see the tarkeean.\" Then I say: \"It",{"entites":[]}],["was cooked by a woman, and perhaps it is bad for your caste.\" Then you",{"entites":[]}],["say: \"There is no caste when men go to--look for tarkeean.\" You stop a",{"entites":[]}],["little between those words, \"to--look.\" That is thee whole secret. The",{"entites":[]}],["little stop before the words.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim repeated the test-sentence.",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'That is all right. Then I will show you my turquoise if there is time,",{"entites":[]}],["and then you know who I am, and then we exchange views and documents and",{"entites":[]}],["those-all things. And so it is with any other man of us. We talk",{"entites":[]}],["sometimes about turquoises and sometimes about tarkeean, but always",{"entites":[]}],["with that little stop in the words. It is verree easy. First, \"Son of",{"entites":[]}],["the Charm,\" if you are in a tight place. Perhaps that may help",{"entites":[]}],["you--perhaps not. Then what I have told you about the tarkeean, if you",{"entites":[]}],["want to transact offeecial business with a strange man. Of course, at",{"entites":[]}],["present, you have no offeecial business. You are--ah ha!--supernumerary",{"entites":[]}],["on probation. Quite unique specimen. If you were Asiatic of birth you",{"entites":[]}],["might be employed right off; but this half-year of leave is to make you",{"entites":[]}],["de-Englishised, you see? The lama, he expects you, because I have",{"entites":[]}],["demi-offeecially informed him you have passed all your examinations, and",{"entites":[]}],["will soon obtain Government appointment. Oh ho! You are on",{"entites":[]}],["acting-allowance you see: so if you are called upon to help Sons of the",{"entites":[]}],["Charm mind you jolly well try. Now I shall say good-bye, my dear fellow,",{"entites":[]}],["and I hope you--ah--will come out top-side all raight.'",{"entites":[]}],["Hurree Babu stepped back a pace or two into the crowd at the entrance of",{"entites":[[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"]]}],["Lucknow station and--was gone. Kim drew a deep breath and hugged himself",{"entites":[[31,34,"PERSON"],[31,34,"PERSON"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[31,34,"PERSON"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["all over. The nickel-plated revolver he could feel in the bosom of his",{"entites":[]}],["sad-coloured robe, the amulet was on his neck; begging-gourd, rosary,",{"entites":[]}],["and ghost-dagger (Mr. Lurgan had forgotten nothing) were all to hand,",{"entites":[[22,28,"PERSON"],[22,28,"PERSON"],[22,28,"PERSON"]]}],["with medicine, paint-box, and compass, and in a worn old purse-belt",{"entites":[]}],["embroidered with porcupine quill-patterns lay a month's pay. Kings could",{"entites":[]}],["be no richer. He bought sweetmeats in a leaf-cup from a Hindu trader,",{"entites":[]}],["and ate them with glad rapture till a policeman ordered him off the",{"entites":[]}],["steps.",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER XI",{"entites":[]}],["          Give the man who is not made",{"entites":[]}],["              To his trade",{"entites":[]}],["          Swords to fling and catch again,",{"entites":[]}],["          Coins to ring and snatch again,",{"entites":[]}],["          Men to harm and cure again,",{"entites":[]}],["          Snakes to charm and lure again--",{"entites":[]}],["          He'll be hurt by his own blade,",{"entites":[]}],["          By his serpents disobeyed,",{"entites":[]}],["          By his clumsiness bewrayed,",{"entites":[]}],["          By the people mocked to scorn.",{"entites":[]}],["            So 'tis not with juggler born.",{"entites":[]}],["          Pinch of dust or withered flower,",{"entites":[]}],["            Chance-flung fruit or borrowed staff,",{"entites":[]}],["          Serve his need and shore his power,",{"entites":[]}],["            Bind the spell, or loose the laugh!",{"entites":[]}],["                          'But a man who, etc.,' Op. 15.",{"entites":[]}],["FOLLOWED a sudden natural reaction.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now am I alone--all alone,' he thought. 'In all India is no one so",{"entites":[[49,54,"LOC"],[49,54,"LOC"],[49,54,"LOC"]]}],["alone as I! If I die to-day, who shall bring the news--and to whom? If I",{"entites":[]}],["live and God is good, there will be a price upon my head, for I am a Son",{"entites":[]}],["of the Charm--I, Kim.'",{"entites":[[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"]]}],["A very few white people, but many Asiatics, can throw themselves into a",{"entites":[]}],["mazement as it were by repeating their own names over and over again to",{"entites":[]}],["themselves, letting the mind go free upon speculation as to what is",{"entites":[]}],["called personal identity. When one grows older, the power, usually,",{"entites":[]}],["departs, but while it lasts it may descend upon a man at any moment.",{"entites":[]}],["'Who is Kim--Kim--Kim?'",{"entites":[[8,11,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"],[8,11,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"],[8,11,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"]]}],["He squatted in a corner of the clanging waiting-room, rapt from all",{"entites":[]}],["other thoughts; hands folded in lap, and pupils contracted to",{"entites":[]}],["pin-points. In a minute--in another half second--he felt he would arrive",{"entites":[]}],["at the solution of the tremendous puzzle; but here, as always happens,",{"entites":[]}],["his mind dropped away from those heights with the rush of a wounded",{"entites":[]}],["bird, and passing his hand before his eyes, he shook his head.",{"entites":[]}],["A long-haired Hindu bairagi (holy man), who had just bought a ticket,",{"entites":[]}],["halted before him at that moment and stared intently.",{"entites":[]}],["'I also have lost it,' he said sadly. 'It is one of the Gates to the",{"entites":[]}],["Way, but for me it has been shut many years.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What is the talk?' said Kim, abashed.",{"entites":[[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"]]}],["'Thou wast wondering there in thy spirit what manner of thing thy soul",{"entites":[]}],["might be. The seizure came of a sudden. I know. Who should know but I?",{"entites":[]}],["Whither goest thou?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Toward Kashi'(Benares).",{"entites":[[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"],[8,13,"PERSON"],[15,22,"LOC"],[8,13,"PERSON"],[8,13,"PERSON"]]}],["'There are no Gods there. I have proved them. I go to Prayag (Allahabad)",{"entites":[[62,71,"LOC"],[62,71,"LOC"],[62,71,"LOC"]]}],["for the fifth time--seeking the road to Enlightenment. Of what faith art",{"entites":[]}],["thou?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I too am a Seeker,' said Kim, using one of the lama's pet words.",{"entites":[[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"]]}],["'Though'--he forgot his Northern dress for the moment--'though Allah",{"entites":[]}],["alone knoweth what I seek.'",{"entites":[]}],["The old fellow slipped the bairagi's crutch under his armpit and sat",{"entites":[]}],["down on a patch of ruddy leopard's skin as Kim rose at the call for the",{"entites":[[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"]]}],["Benares train.",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["'Go in hope, little brother,' he said. 'It is a long road to the feet of",{"entites":[]}],["the One; but thither do we all travel.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim did not feel so lonely after this, and ere he had sat out twenty",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["miles in the crowded compartment, was cheering his neighbours with a",{"entites":[]}],["string of most wonderful yarns about his own and his master's magical",{"entites":[]}],["gifts.",{"entites":[]}],["Benares struck him as a peculiarly filthy city, though it was pleasant",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["to find how his cloth was respected. At least one-third of the",{"entites":[]}],["population prays eternally to some group or other of the many million",{"entites":[]}],["deities, and so revere every sort of holy man. Kim was guided to the",{"entites":[[47,50,"PERSON"],[47,50,"PERSON"],[47,50,"PERSON"]]}],["Temple of the Tirthankers, about a mile outside the city, near Sarnath,",{"entites":[[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"]]}],["by a chance-met Punjabi farmer--a Kamboh from Jullundur-way who had",{"entites":[]}],["appealed in vain to every God of his homestead to cure his small son,",{"entites":[]}],["and was trying Benares as a last resort.",{"entites":[[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"],[15,22,"LOC"]]}],["'Thou art from the North?' he asked, shouldering through the press of",{"entites":[]}],["the narrow, stinking streets much like his own pet bull at home.",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay, I know the Punjab. My mother was a Pahareen, but my father came",{"entites":[[40,48,"PERSON"],[16,22,"LOC"],[40,48,"PERSON"],[16,22,"LOC"],[40,48,"PERSON"],[16,22,"LOC"]]}],["from Amritzar--by Jandiala,' said Kim, oiling his ready tongue for the",{"entites":[[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"],[5,13,"LOC"],[18,26,"PERSON"],[5,13,"LOC"],[5,13,"LOC"],[34,37,"PERSON"],[18,26,"PERSON"],[18,26,"PERSON"]]}],["needs of the Road.",{"entites":[[13,17,"LOC"],[13,17,"LOC"],[13,17,"LOC"]]}],["'Jandiala--Jullundur? Oho! Then we be neighbours in some sort, as it",{"entites":[[11,20,"LOC"],[11,20,"LOC"],[11,20,"LOC"]]}],["were.' He nodded tenderly to the wailing child in his arms. 'Whom dost",{"entites":[]}],["thou serve?'",{"entites":[]}],["'A most holy man at the Temple of the Tirthankers.'",{"entites":[]}],["'They are all most holy and--most greedy,' said the Jat with bitterness.",{"entites":[]}],["'I have walked the pillars and trodden the temples till my feet are",{"entites":[]}],["flayed, and the child is no whit better. And the mother being sick",{"entites":[]}],["too. . . . Hush, then, little one. . . . We changed his name when the",{"entites":[]}],["fever came. We put him into girl's clothes. There was nothing we did not",{"entites":[]}],["do, except--I said to his mother when she bundled me off to Benares--she",{"entites":[[60,67,"LOC"],[60,67,"LOC"],[60,67,"LOC"]]}],["should have come with me--I said Sakhi Sarwar Sultan would serve us",{"entites":[[33,52,"PERSON"],[33,52,"PERSON"],[33,52,"PERSON"]]}],["best. 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He",{"entites":[[15,26,"PERSON"],[45,53,"LOC"],[15,26,"PERSON"],[45,53,"LOC"],[15,26,"PERSON"],[45,53,"LOC"]]}],["bade me come. I wait. Tell him.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Do not forget the child,' cried the importunate Jat over his shoulder,",{"entites":[]}],["and then bellowed in Punjabi: 'O Holy One--O disciple of the Holy One--O",{"entites":[]}],["Gods above all the Worlds--behold affliction sitting at the gate!' That",{"entites":[]}],["cry is so common in Benares that the passers never turned their heads.",{"entites":[[20,27,"LOC"],[20,27,"LOC"],[20,27,"LOC"]]}],["The Oswal, at peace with mankind, carried the message into the darkness",{"entites":[[4,9,"LOC"],[4,9,"LOC"],[4,9,"LOC"]]}],["behind him, and the easy, uncounted Eastern minutes slid by; for the",{"entites":[]}],["lama was asleep in his cell, and no priest would wake him. 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Meantime, here is another brown medicine that he may",{"entites":[]}],["suck at on the way home.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Gods, what wisdom!' said the Kamboh, snatching.",{"entites":[[30,36,"LOC"],[30,36,"LOC"],[30,36,"LOC"]]}],["It was as much as Kim could remember of his own treatment in a bout of",{"entites":[[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"]]}],["autumn malaria--if you except the patter that he added to impress the",{"entites":[]}],["lama.",{"entites":[]}],["'Now go! Come again in the morning.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But the price--the price,' said the Jat, and threw back his sturdy",{"entites":[]}],["shoulders. 'My son is my son. Now that he will be whole again, how shall",{"entites":[]}],["I go back to his mother and say I took help by the wayside and did not",{"entites":[]}],["even give a bowl of curds in return?'",{"entites":[]}],["'They are alike, these Jats,' said Kim softly. 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He told me that thou wast on the road to much honour as a scribe.",{"entites":[]}],["And I see thou art a physician.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Yes, that am I--a scribe, when I am a Sahib, but it is set aside when",{"entites":[[39,44,"PERSON"],[39,44,"PERSON"],[39,44,"PERSON"]]}],["I come as thy disciple. I have accomplished the years appointed for a",{"entites":[]}],["Sahib.'",{"entites":[]}],["'As it were a novice?' said the lama, nodding his head. 'Art thou freed",{"entites":[]}],["from the schools? I would not have thee unripe.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I am all free. In due time I take service under the Government as a",{"entites":[]}],["scribe--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Not as a warrior. That is well.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But first I come to wander--with thee. Therefore I am here. Who begs",{"entites":[]}],["for thee, these days?' he went on quickly. The ice was thin.",{"entites":[]}],["'Very often I beg myself; but, as thou knowest, I am seldom here, except",{"entites":[]}],["when I come to look again at my disciple. From one end to another of",{"entites":[]}],["Hind have I travelled afoot and in the te-rain. A great and a wonderful",{"entites":[[0,4,"LOC"],[0,4,"LOC"],[0,4,"LOC"]]}],["land! But here, when I put in, is as though I were in my own Bhotiyal.'",{"entites":[]}],["He looked round the little clean cell complacently. 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See!' he pointed to a",{"entites":[]}],["curiously-built mound of coloured rice crowned with a fantastic metal",{"entites":[]}],["ornament. 'When I was abbot in my own place--before I came to better",{"entites":[]}],["knowledge--I made that offering daily. It is the Sacrifice of the",{"entites":[]}],["Universe to the Lord. Thus do we of Bhotiyal offer all the world daily",{"entites":[[36,44,"LOC"],[36,44,"LOC"],[36,44,"LOC"]]}],["to the Excellent Law. And I do it even now, though I know that the",{"entites":[]}],["Excellent One is beyond all pinchings and pattings.' He snuffed from his",{"entites":[]}],["gourd.",{"entites":[]}],["'It is well done, Holy One,' Kim murmured, sinking at ease on the",{"entites":[[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"],[29,32,"PERSON"]]}],["cushions, very happy and rather tired.",{"entites":[]}],["'And also,' the old man chuckled, 'I write pictures of the Wheel of",{"entites":[]}],["Life. Three days to a picture. 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Men say that the Bodhisat Himself first drew it with grains of",{"entites":[]}],["rice upon dust, to teach His disciples the cause of things. Many ages",{"entites":[]}],["have crystallised it into a most wonderful convention crowded with",{"entites":[]}],["hundreds of little figures whose every line carries a meaning. Few can",{"entites":[]}],["translate the picture-parable; there are not twenty in all the world who",{"entites":[]}],["can draw it surely without a copy: of those who can both draw and",{"entites":[]}],["expound are but three.",{"entites":[]}],["'I have a little learned to draw,' said Kim. 'But this is a marvel",{"entites":[[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"]]}],["beyond marvels.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have written it for many years,' said the lama. 'Time was when I",{"entites":[]}],["could write it all between one lamp-lighting and the next. I will teach",{"entites":[]}],["thee the art--after due preparation; and I will show thee the meaning of",{"entites":[]}],["the Wheel.'",{"entites":[]}],["'We take the Road, then?'",{"entites":[[13,17,"LOC"],[13,17,"LOC"],[13,17,"LOC"]]}],["'The Road and our Search. I was but waiting for thee. It was made plain",{"entites":[]}],["to me in a hundred dreams--notably one that came upon the night of the",{"entites":[]}],["day that the Gates of Learning first shut--that without thee I should",{"entites":[]}],["never find my River. Again and again, as thou knowest, I put this from",{"entites":[]}],["me, fearing an illusion. Therefore I would not take thee with me that",{"entites":[]}],["day at Lucknow, when we ate the cakes. I would not take thee till the",{"entites":[[7,14,"LOC"],[7,14,"LOC"],[7,14,"LOC"]]}],["time was ripe and auspicious. From the Hills to the Sea, from the Sea to",{"entites":[[39,44,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"]]}],["the Hills have I gone, but it was vain. 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His mind",{"entites":[[52,58,"LOC"],[52,58,"LOC"],[52,58,"LOC"]]}],["moved all in the past, and he revived every step of their wonderful",{"entites":[]}],["first journey together, rubbing his hands and chuckling, till it pleased",{"entites":[]}],["him to curl himself up into the sudden sleep of old age.",{"entites":[]}],["Kim watched the last dusty sunshine fade out of the court, and played",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["with his ghost-dagger and rosary. The clamour of Benares, oldest of all",{"entites":[[49,56,"LOC"],[49,56,"LOC"],[49,56,"LOC"]]}],["earth's cities awake before the Gods, day and night, beat round the",{"entites":[]}],["walls as the sea's roar round a breakwater. 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Does the Wheel hang still if a child spin it--or a",{"entites":[]}],["drunkard? Chela, this is a great and a terrible world.'",{"entites":[[10,15,"PERSON"],[10,15,"PERSON"],[10,15,"PERSON"]]}],["'I think it good,' Kim yawned. 'What is there to eat? I have not eaten",{"entites":[[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"]]}],["since yesterday even.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I had forgotten thy need. Yonder is good Bhotiyal tea and cold rice.'",{"entites":[]}],["'We cannot walk far on such stuff.' Kim felt all the European's lust for",{"entites":[[36,39,"PERSON"],[53,61,"LOC"],[53,61,"LOC"],[53,61,"LOC"],[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"]]}],["flesh-meat, which is not accessible in a Jain temple. Yet, instead of",{"entites":[]}],["going out at once with the begging-bowl, he stayed his stomach on slabs",{"entites":[]}],["of cold rice till the full dawn. 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I am ten leagues deep in calamity,'",{"entites":[]}],["cried the Mahratta, picking up the cue.",{"entites":[[10,18,"LOC"],[10,18,"LOC"],[10,18,"LOC"]]}],["'The man is cut and bruised all over. I go about to cure him,' Kim",{"entites":[[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"]]}],["retorted. 'None interfered between thy babe and me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I am rebuked,' said the Kamboh meekly. 'I am thy debtor for the life of",{"entites":[[25,31,"PERSON"]]}],["my son. Thou art a miracle-worker--I know it.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Show me the cuts.' Kim bent over the Mahratta's neck, his heart nearly",{"entites":[[38,46,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[38,46,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[38,46,"PERSON"]]}],["choking him; for this was the Great Game with a vengeance. 'Now, tell",{"entites":[]}],["thy tale swiftly, brother, while I say a charm.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I come from the South, where my work lay. 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I ran from Mhow by night, bribing the police,",{"entites":[[35,39,"LOC"],[35,39,"LOC"],[35,39,"LOC"]]}],["who had been bribed to hand me over without question to my enemies in",{"entites":[]}],["the South. Then I lay in old Chitor city a week, a penitent in a temple,",{"entites":[[29,35,"LOC"],[29,35,"LOC"],[29,35,"LOC"],[4,9,"LOC"],[4,9,"LOC"],[4,9,"LOC"]]}],["but I could not get rid of the letter which was my charge. 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They have both the corpse and the witnesses waiting.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But cannot the Government protect?'",{"entites":[]}],["'We of the Game are beyond protection. If we die, we die. Our names are",{"entites":[]}],["blotted from the book. That is all. At Bandakui, where lives one of us,",{"entites":[[39,47,"LOC"],[39,47,"LOC"],[39,47,"LOC"]]}],["I thought to slip the scent by changing my face, and so made me a",{"entites":[]}],["Mahratta. Then I came to Agra, and would have turned back to Chitor to",{"entites":[[61,67,"LOC"],[25,29,"LOC"],[25,29,"LOC"],[61,67,"LOC"],[61,67,"LOC"],[25,29,"LOC"]]}],["recover the letter. So sure I was I had slipped them. Therefore I did",{"entites":[]}],["not send a tar (telegram) to any one saying where the letter lay. I",{"entites":[]}],["wished the credit of it all.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim nodded. 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I am",{"entites":[]}],["marked'--he touched the filthy bandage on his leg--'so that they will",{"entites":[]}],["know me at Delhi.'",{"entites":[[11,16,"LOC"],[11,16,"LOC"],[11,16,"LOC"]]}],["'Thou art safe in the te-rain, at least.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Live a year at the Great Game and tell me that again! The wires will be",{"entites":[]}],["out against me at Delhi, describing every tear and rag upon me.",{"entites":[[18,23,"LOC"],[18,23,"LOC"],[18,23,"LOC"]]}],["Twenty--a hundred, if need be--will have seen me slay that boy. And thou",{"entites":[]}],["art useless!'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim knew enough of native methods of attack not to doubt that the case",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["would be deadly complete--even to the corpse. The Mahratta twitched his",{"entites":[[50,58,"PERSON"],[50,58,"PERSON"],[50,58,"PERSON"]]}],["fingers with pain from time to time. The Kamboh in his corner glared",{"entites":[]}],["sullenly; the lama was busy over his beads; and Kim, fumbling",{"entites":[[48,51,"PERSON"],[48,51,"PERSON"],[48,51,"PERSON"]]}],["doctor-fashion at the man's neck, thought out his plan between",{"entites":[]}],["invocations.",{"entites":[]}],["'Hast thou a charm to change my shape? Else I am dead. Five--ten minutes",{"entites":[[1,5,"PERSON"],[1,5,"PERSON"]]}],["alone, if I had not been so pressed, and I might--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Is he cured yet, miracle-worker?' said the Kamboh jealously. 'Thou hast",{"entites":[[44,50,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"]]}],["chanted long enough.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay. There is no cure for his hurts, as I see, except he sit for three",{"entites":[]}],["days in the habit of a bairagi.' 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Have I thy",{"entites":[[6,10,"PERSON"]]}],["leave--Prince?'",{"entites":[]}],["Up flew the man's huge paws in supplication. 'Nay--nay. Do not mock me",{"entites":[]}],["thus.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It pleases me to cure this sick one. Thou shalt acquire merit by",{"entites":[]}],["aiding. What colour ash is there in thy pipe-bowl? White. That is",{"entites":[]}],["auspicious. Was there raw turmeric among thy food-stuffs?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I--I--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Open thy bundle!'",{"entites":[]}],["It was the usual collection of small oddments: bits of cloth, quack",{"entites":[]}],["medicines, cheap fairings, a clothful of atta,--grayish, rough-ground",{"entites":[]}],["native flour,--twists of down-country tobacco, tawdry pipe-stems, and a",{"entites":[]}],["packet of curry-stuff, all wrapped in a quilt. Kim turned it over with",{"entites":[[47,50,"PERSON"],[47,50,"PERSON"],[47,50,"PERSON"]]}],["the air of a wise warlock, muttering a Mohammedan invocation.",{"entites":[]}],["'This is wisdom I learned from the Sahibs,' he whispered to the lama;",{"entites":[[35,41,"PERSON"],[35,41,"PERSON"],[35,41,"PERSON"]]}],["and here, when one thinks of his training at Lurgan's, he spoke no more",{"entites":[[45,51,"LOC"],[45,51,"LOC"],[45,51,"LOC"]]}],["than the truth. 'There is a great evil in this man's fortune, as shown",{"entites":[]}],["by the stars, which--which troubles him. Shall I take it away?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Friend of the Stars, thou hast done well in all things. Let it be at",{"entites":[]}],["thy pleasure. Is it another healing?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Quick! Be quick!' gasped the Mahratta. 'The train may stop.'",{"entites":[]}],["'A healing against the shadow of death,' said Kim, mixing the Kamboh's",{"entites":[[62,68,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"]]}],["flour with the mingled charcoal and tobacco ash in the red-earth bowl of",{"entites":[]}],["the pipe. E.23, without a word, slipped off his turban and shook down",{"entites":[]}],["his long black hair.",{"entites":[]}],["'That is my food--priest,' the Jat growled.",{"entites":[]}],["'A buffalo in the temple! Hast thou dared to look even thus far?' said",{"entites":[[26,30,"PERSON"],[26,30,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim. 'I must do mysteries before fools; but have a care for thy eyes. Is",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["there a film before them already? I save the babe, and for return",{"entites":[]}],["thou--oh, shameless!' The man flinched at the direct gaze, for Kim was",{"entites":[[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"]]}],["wholly in earnest. 'Shall I curse thee, or shall I--' He picked up the",{"entites":[]}],["outer cloth of the bundle and threw it over the bowed head. 'Dare so",{"entites":[]}],["much as to think a wish to see, and--and--even I cannot save thee. Sit!",{"entites":[]}],["Be dumb!'",{"entites":[]}],["'I am blind--dumb. Forbear to curse! Co--come, child; we will play a",{"entites":[]}],["game of hiding. Do not, for my sake, look from under the cloth.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I see hope,' said E.23. 'What is thy scheme?'",{"entites":[]}],["'This comes next,' said Kim, plucking the thin body-shirt. E.23",{"entites":[[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["hesitated, with all a North-West man's dislike of baring his body.",{"entites":[]}],["'What is caste to a cut throat?' said Kim, rending it to the waist. 'We",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["must make thee a yellow Saddhu all over. Strip--strip swiftly, and shake",{"entites":[[24,30,"PERSON"],[24,30,"PERSON"],[24,30,"PERSON"]]}],["thy hair over thy eyes while I scatter the ash. Now, a caste-mark on thy",{"entites":[]}],["forehead.' He drew from his bosom the little Survey paint-box and a cake",{"entites":[]}],["of crimson lake.",{"entites":[]}],["'Art thou only a beginner?' said E.23, labouring literally for the dear",{"entites":[]}],["life, as he slid out of his body-wrappings and stood clear in the",{"entites":[]}],["loin-cloth while Kim splashed in a noble caste-mark on the ash-smeared",{"entites":[[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"]]}],["brow.",{"entites":[]}],["'But two days entered to the Game, brother,' Kim replied. 'Smear more",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["ash on the bosom.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Hast thou met--a physician of sick pearls?' 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What of the",{"entites":[[44,50,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"],[44,50,"PERSON"]]}],["old clothes?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim rolled them small, and stuffed them into the slack folds of his",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["tunic. With a yellow-ochre paint cake he smeared the legs and breast,",{"entites":[]}],["great streaks against the background of flour, ash, and turmeric.",{"entites":[]}],["'The blood on them is enough to hang thee, brother.'",{"entites":[]}],["'May be; but no need to throw them out of the window. . . . It is",{"entites":[]}],["finished.' His voice thrilled with a boy's pure delight in the Game.",{"entites":[]}],["'Turn and look, O Jat!'",{"entites":[]}],["'The Gods protect us,' said the hooded Kamboh, emerging like a buffalo",{"entites":[[39,45,"PERSON"],[39,45,"PERSON"],[39,45,"PERSON"]]}],["from the reeds. 'But--whither went the Mahratta? What hast thou done?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim had been trained by Lurgan Sahib; and E.23, by virtue of his",{"entites":[[24,36,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[24,36,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[24,36,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["business, was no bad actor. In place of the tremulous, shrinking trader",{"entites":[]}],["there lolled against the corner an all but naked, ash-smeared,",{"entites":[]}],["ochre-barred, dusty-haired Saddhu, his swollen eyes--opium takes quick",{"entites":[[27,33,"PERSON"],[27,33,"PERSON"],[27,33,"PERSON"]]}],["effect on an empty stomach--luminous with insolence and bestial lust,",{"entites":[]}],["his legs crossed under him, Kim's brown rosary round his neck, and a",{"entites":[[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"]]}],["scant yard of worn, flowered chintz on his shoulders. The child buried",{"entites":[]}],["his face in his amazed father's arms.",{"entites":[]}],["'Look up, Princeling! We travel with warlocks, but they will not hurt",{"entites":[]}],["thee. Oh, do not cry. . . . What is the sense of curing a child one day",{"entites":[]}],["and killing him with fright the next?'",{"entites":[]}],["'The child will be fortunate all his life. He has seen a great healing.",{"entites":[]}],["When I was a child I made clay men and horses.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I have made them too. Sir Banas, he comes in the night and makes them",{"entites":[[27,32,"PERSON"],[27,32,"PERSON"],[27,32,"PERSON"]]}],["all alive at the back of our kitchen-midden,' piped the child.",{"entites":[]}],["'And so thou art not frightened at anything. Eh, Prince?'",{"entites":[[49,55,"PERSON"],[49,55,"PERSON"],[49,55,"PERSON"]]}],["'I was frightened because my father was frightened. I felt his arms",{"entites":[]}],["shake.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, chicken-man,' said Kim, and even the abashed Jat laughed. 'I have",{"entites":[[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["done a healing on this poor trader. He must forsake his gains and his",{"entites":[]}],["account-books, and sit by the wayside three nights to overcome the",{"entites":[]}],["malignity of his enemies. The Stars are against him.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The fewer money-lenders the better, say I; but, Saddhu or no Saddhu, he",{"entites":[[49,55,"PERSON"],[49,55,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"],[49,55,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"]]}],["should pay for my stuff on his shoulders.'",{"entites":[]}],["'So? But that is thy child on thy shoulder--given over to the",{"entites":[]}],["burning-ghat not two days ago. There remains one thing more. I did this",{"entites":[]}],["charm in thy presence because need was great. I changed his shape and",{"entites":[]}],["his soul. None the less, if, by any chance, O man from Jullundur, thou",{"entites":[[55,64,"LOC"],[55,64,"LOC"],[55,64,"LOC"]]}],["rememberest what thou hast seen, either among the elders sitting under",{"entites":[]}],["the village tree, or in thy own house, or in company of thy priest when",{"entites":[]}],["he blesses thy cattle, a murrain will come among the buffaloes, and a",{"entites":[]}],["fire in thy thatch, and rats in the corn-bin, and the curse of our Gods",{"entites":[]}],["upon thy fields that they may be barren before thy feet and after thy",{"entites":[]}],["ploughshare.' This was part of an old curse picked up from a faquir by",{"entites":[]}],["the Taksali Gate in the days of Kim's innocence. It lost nothing by",{"entites":[[4,16,"LOC"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[4,16,"LOC"],[4,16,"LOC"],[32,35,"PERSON"]]}],["repetition.",{"entites":[]}],["'Cease, Holy One! In mercy, cease!' cried the Jat. 'Do not curse the",{"entites":[]}],["household. I saw nothing! I heard nothing! I am thy cow!' and he made to",{"entites":[]}],["grab at Kim's bare foot beating rhythmically on the carriage floor.",{"entites":[[8,11,"PERSON"],[8,11,"PERSON"],[8,11,"PERSON"]]}],["'But since thou hast been permitted to aid me in the matter of a pinch",{"entites":[]}],["of flour and a little opium and such trifles as I have honoured by using",{"entites":[]}],["in my art, so will the Gods return a blessing,' and he gave it at",{"entites":[]}],["length, to the man's immense relief. It was one that he had learned from",{"entites":[]}],["Lurgan Sahib.",{"entites":[[0,6,"LOC"],[7,12,"LOC"],[7,12,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[7,12,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["The lama stared through his spectacles as he had not stared at the",{"entites":[]}],["business of disguisement.",{"entites":[]}],["'Friend of the Stars,' he said at last, 'thou hast acquired great",{"entites":[]}],["wisdom. Beware that it do not give birth to pride. No man having the Law",{"entites":[]}],["before his eyes speaks hastily of any matter which he has seen or",{"entites":[]}],["encountered.'",{"entites":[]}],["'No--no--no indeed,' cried the farmer, fearful lest the master should be",{"entites":[]}],["minded to improve on the pupil. E.23, with relaxed mouth, gave himself",{"entites":[]}],["up to the opium that is meat, tobacco, and medicine to the spent",{"entites":[]}],["Asiatic.",{"entites":[]}],["So, in a silence of awe and great miscomprehension, they slid into Delhi",{"entites":[[67,72,"LOC"],[67,72,"LOC"],[67,72,"LOC"]]}],["about lamp-lighting time.",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER XII",{"entites":[]}],["  'Who hath desired the Sea--the sight of salt-water unbounded?",{"entites":[]}],["   The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber",{"entites":[]}],["                wind-hounded?",{"entites":[]}],["   The sleek-barrelled swell before storm--gray, foamless, enormous,",{"entites":[]}],["                and growing?",{"entites":[]}],["   Stark calm on the lap of the Line--or the crazy-eyed hurricane",{"entites":[]}],["                blowing?",{"entites":[]}],["   His Sea in no showing the same--his Sea and the same 'neath all",{"entites":[]}],["                showing--",{"entites":[]}],["          His Sea that his being fulfils?",{"entites":[]}],["   So and no otherwise--so and no otherwise Hill-men desire their",{"entites":[]}],["                Hills!'",{"entites":[]}],["'I HAVE found my heart again,' said E.23, under cover of the platform's",{"entites":[]}],["tumult. 'Hunger and fear make men dazed, or I might have thought of this",{"entites":[]}],["escape before. I was right. They come to hunt for me. Thou hast saved my",{"entites":[]}],["head.'",{"entites":[]}],["A group of yellow-trousered Punjab policemen, headed by a hot and",{"entites":[[28,34,"LOC"],[28,34,"LOC"],[28,34,"LOC"]]}],["perspiring young Englishman, parted the crowd about the carriages.",{"entites":[[17,27,"LOC"],[17,27,"LOC"],[17,27,"LOC"]]}],["Behind them, inconspicuous as a cat, ambled a small fat person who",{"entites":[]}],["looked like a lawyer's tout.",{"entites":[]}],["'See the young Sahib reading from a paper. My description is in his",{"entites":[[15,20,"PERSON"],[15,20,"PERSON"],[15,20,"PERSON"]]}],["hand,' said E.23. 'They go carriage by carriage, like fisher-folk",{"entites":[]}],["netting a pool.'",{"entites":[]}],["When the procession reached their compartment, E.23 was counting his",{"entites":[]}],["beads with a steady jerk of the wrist; while Kim jeered at him for being",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["so drugged as to have lost the ringed fire-tongs which are the Saddhu's",{"entites":[[63,69,"PERSON"],[63,69,"PERSON"],[63,69,"PERSON"]]}],["distinguishing mark. The lama, deep in meditation, stared straight",{"entites":[]}],["before him; and the farmer, glancing furtively, gathered up his",{"entites":[]}],["belongings.",{"entites":[]}],["'Nothing here but a parcel of holy-bolies,' said the Englishman aloud,",{"entites":[[53,63,"LOC"],[53,63,"LOC"],[53,63,"LOC"]]}],["and passed on amid a ripple of uneasiness; for native police mean",{"entites":[]}],["extortion to the native all India over.",{"entites":[[28,33,"LOC"],[28,33,"LOC"],[28,33,"LOC"]]}],["'The trouble now,' whispered E.23, 'lies in sending a wire as to the",{"entites":[]}],["place where I hid that letter I was sent to find. I cannot go to the",{"entites":[]}],["tar-office in this guise.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Is it not enough I have saved thy neck?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Not if the work be left unfinished. Did never the healer of sick pearls",{"entites":[]}],["tell thee so? Comes another Sahib! Ah!'",{"entites":[]}],["This was a tallish, sallowish District Superintendent of Police,--belt,",{"entites":[]}],["helmet, polished spurs and all,--strutting and twirling his dark",{"entites":[]}],["moustache.",{"entites":[]}],["'What fools are these Police Sahibs!' said Kim genially.",{"entites":[[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"],[43,46,"PERSON"]]}],["E.23 glanced up under his eyelids. 'It is well said,' he muttered in a",{"entites":[]}],["changed voice. 'I go to drink water. Keep my place.'",{"entites":[]}],["He blundered out almost into the Englishman's arms, and was bad-worded",{"entites":[[33,43,"LOC"],[33,43,"LOC"],[33,43,"LOC"]]}],["in clumsy Urdu.",{"entites":[[10,14,"LOC"],[10,14,"LOC"],[10,14,"LOC"]]}],["'Tum-mut? You drunk? You mustn't bang about as though Delhi station",{"entites":[[54,59,"LOC"],[54,59,"LOC"],[54,59,"LOC"]]}],["belonged to you, my friend.'",{"entites":[]}],["E.23, not moving a muscle of his countenance, answered with a stream of",{"entites":[]}],["the filthiest abuse, at which Kim naturally rejoiced. It reminded him of",{"entites":[[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"]]}],["the drummer-boys and the barrack-sweepers at Umballa in the terrible",{"entites":[[45,52,"LOC"],[45,52,"LOC"],[45,52,"LOC"]]}],["time of his first schooling.",{"entites":[]}],["'My good fool,' the Englishman drawled. 'Nickle-jao! Go back to your",{"entites":[[20,30,"LOC"],[20,30,"LOC"],[20,30,"LOC"]]}],["carriage.'",{"entites":[]}],["Step by step, withdrawing deferentially, and dropping his voice, the",{"entites":[]}],["yellow Saddhu clomb back to the carriage, cursing the D. S. P. to",{"entites":[]}],["remotest posterity by--here Kim almost jumped--by the curse of the",{"entites":[[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"]]}],["Queen's Stone, by the writing under the Queen's Stone, and by an",{"entites":[]}],["assortment of Gods with wholly new names.",{"entites":[]}],["'I don't know what you're saying,'--the Englishman flushed",{"entites":[[40,50,"LOC"],[40,50,"LOC"],[40,50,"LOC"]]}],["angrily,--'but it's some piece of blasted impertinence. Come out of",{"entites":[]}],["that!'",{"entites":[]}],["E.23, affecting to misunderstand, gravely produced his ticket, which the",{"entites":[]}],["Englishman wrenched angrily from his hand.",{"entites":[[0,10,"LOC"],[0,10,"LOC"],[0,10,"LOC"]]}],["'Oh zoolum! What oppression!' growled the Jat from his corner. 'All for",{"entites":[]}],["the sake of a jest too.' He had been grinning at the freedom of the",{"entites":[]}],["Saddhu's tongue. 'Thy charms do not work well to-day, Holy One!'",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["The Saddhu followed the policeman, fawning and supplicating. The ruck of",{"entites":[[4,10,"PERSON"],[4,10,"PERSON"],[4,10,"PERSON"]]}],["passengers, busy with their babies and their bundles, had not noticed",{"entites":[]}],["the affair. Kim slipped out behind him; for it flashed through his head",{"entites":[[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["that he had heard this angry, stupid Sahib discoursing loud",{"entites":[[37,42,"PERSON"],[37,42,"PERSON"],[37,42,"PERSON"]]}],["personalities to an old lady near Umballa three years ago.",{"entites":[[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"],[34,41,"LOC"]]}],["'It is well,' the Saddhu whispered, jammed in the calling, shouting,",{"entites":[[18,24,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"]]}],["bewildered press--a Persian greyhound between his feet and a cadgeful of",{"entites":[]}],["yelling hawks under charge of a Rajput falconer in the small of his",{"entites":[]}],["back. 'He has gone now to send word of the letter which I hid. They told",{"entites":[]}],["me he was in Peshawur. I might have known that he is like the",{"entites":[[13,21,"LOC"],[13,21,"LOC"],[13,21,"LOC"]]}],["crocodile--always at the other ford. He has saved me from present",{"entites":[]}],["calamity, but I owe my life to thee.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Is he also one of Us?' Kim ducked under a Mewar camel-driver's greasy",{"entites":[[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"]]}],["armpit and cannoned off a covey of jabbering Sikh matrons.",{"entites":[]}],["'Not less than the greatest. We are both fortunate! I will make report",{"entites":[]}],["to him of what thou hast done. I am safe under his protection.'",{"entites":[]}],["He bored through the edge of the crowd besieging the carriages, and",{"entites":[]}],["squatted by the bench near the telegraph-office.",{"entites":[]}],["'Return, or they take thy place! Have no fear for the work, brother--or",{"entites":[]}],["my life. Thou hast given me breathing-space, and Strickland Sahib has",{"entites":[[49,65,"PERSON"],[49,65,"PERSON"],[49,65,"PERSON"]]}],["pulled me to land. We may work together at the Game yet. 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Is it permitted to ask a question?'",{"entites":[]}],["The lama inclined his stately head.",{"entites":[]}],["'I ate thy bread for three years--as thou knowest. Holy One, whence",{"entites":[]}],["came--?'",{"entites":[]}],["'There is much wealth, as men count it, in Bhotiyal,' the lama returned",{"entites":[[43,51,"LOC"],[43,51,"LOC"],[43,51,"LOC"]]}],["with composure. 'In my own place I have the illusion of honour. I ask",{"entites":[]}],["for that I need. I am not concerned with the account. That is for my",{"entites":[]}],["monastery. Ai! 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He does not",{"entites":[[41,45,"PERSON"],[41,45,"PERSON"],[41,45,"PERSON"]]}],["deny remedies, but I doubted for the child because of the inauspicious",{"entites":[]}],["colour of the bottles.'",{"entites":[]}],["The lama, under cover of the monologue, had faded out into the darkness",{"entites":[]}],["towards the room prepared.",{"entites":[]}],["'Thou hast angered him, belike,' said Kim.",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["'Not he. He is wearied, and I forgot, being a grandmother. (None but a",{"entites":[]}],["grandmother should ever oversee a child. Mothers are only fit for",{"entites":[]}],["bearing.) To-morrow, when he sees how my daughter's son is grown, he",{"entites":[]}],["will write the charm. Then, too, he can judge of the new hakim's",{"entites":[]}],["drugs.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Who is the hakim, Maharanee?'",{"entites":[[19,28,"PERSON"],[19,28,"PERSON"],[19,28,"PERSON"]]}],["'A wanderer, as thou art, but a most sober Bengali from Dacca--a master",{"entites":[[56,61,"LOC"],[56,61,"LOC"],[56,61,"LOC"]]}],["of medicine. He relieved me of an oppression after meat by means of a",{"entites":[]}],["small pill that wrought like a devil unchained. He travels about now,",{"entites":[]}],["vending preparations of great value. He has even papers, printed in",{"entites":[]}],["Angrezi, telling what things he has done for weak-backed men and slack",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["women. He has been here four days; but hearing ye were coming (hakims",{"entites":[]}],["and priests are snake and tiger the world over) he has, as I take it,",{"entites":[]}],["gone to cover.'",{"entites":[]}],["While she drew breath after this volley, the ancient servant, sitting",{"entites":[]}],["unrebuked on the edge of the torch-light, muttered: 'This house is a",{"entites":[]}],["cattle-pound, as it were, for all charlatans and--priests. Let the boy",{"entites":[]}],["stop eating mangoes . . . but who can argue with a grandmother?' He",{"entites":[]}],["raised his voice respectfully: 'Sahiba, the hakim sleeps after his meat.",{"entites":[[32,38,"PERSON"],[32,38,"PERSON"],[32,38,"PERSON"]]}],["He is in the quarters behind the dovecot.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim bristled like an expectant terrier. To outface and down-talk a",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["Calcutta-taught Bengali, a voluble Dacca drug-vendor, would be a good",{"entites":[[35,40,"LOC"],[35,40,"LOC"],[35,40,"LOC"]]}],["game. It was not seemly that the lama, and incidentally himself, should",{"entites":[]}],["be thrown aside for such an one. He knew those curious bastard English",{"entites":[[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"]]}],["advertisements at the backs of native newspapers. St. Xavier's boys",{"entites":[[54,60,"PERSON"],[54,60,"PERSON"],[54,60,"PERSON"]]}],["sometimes brought them in by stealth to snigger over among their mates;",{"entites":[]}],["for the language of the grateful patient recounting his symptoms is most",{"entites":[]}],["simple and revealing. The Oorya, not unanxious to play off one parasite",{"entites":[]}],["against the other, slunk away towards the dovecot.",{"entites":[]}],["'Yes,' said Kim, with measured scorn. 'Their stock-in-trade is a little",{"entites":[[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["coloured water and a very great shamelessness. Their prey are",{"entites":[]}],["broken-down kings and overfed Bengalis. Their profit is in children--who",{"entites":[]}],["are not born.'",{"entites":[]}],["The old lady chuckled. 'Do not be envious. Charms are better, eh? I",{"entites":[]}],["never gainsaid it. See that thy Holy One writes me a good amulet by the",{"entites":[]}],["morning.'",{"entites":[]}],["'None but the ignorant deny'--a thick, heavy voice boomed through the",{"entites":[]}],["darkness, as a figure came to rest squatting--'None but the ignorant",{"entites":[]}],["deny the value of charms. None but the ignorant deny the value of",{"entites":[]}],["medicines.'",{"entites":[]}],["'A rat found a piece of turmeric. Said he: \"I will open a grocer's",{"entites":[]}],["shop,\"' Kim retorted.",{"entites":[[8,11,"PERSON"],[8,11,"PERSON"],[8,11,"PERSON"]]}],["Battle was fairly joined now, and they heard the old lady stiffen to",{"entites":[]}],["attention.",{"entites":[]}],["'The priest's son knows the names of his nurse and three Gods. Says he:",{"entites":[]}],["\"Hear me, or I will curse you by the three million Great Ones.\"'",{"entites":[]}],["Decidedly this invisible had an arrow or two in his quiver. He went on:",{"entites":[]}],["'I am but a teacher of the alphabet. I have learned all the wisdom of",{"entites":[]}],["the Sahibs.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The Sahibs never grow old. They dance and they play like children when",{"entites":[]}],["they are grandfathers. A strong-backed breed,' piped the voice inside",{"entites":[]}],["the palanquin.",{"entites":[]}],["'I have, too, our drugs which loosen humours of the head in hot and",{"entites":[]}],["angry men. Sina well compounded when the moon stands in the proper",{"entites":[[11,15,"PERSON"],[11,15,"PERSON"],[11,15,"PERSON"]]}],["House; yellow earths I have--arplan from China that makes a man to renew",{"entites":[[41,46,"LOC"],[41,46,"LOC"],[41,46,"LOC"]]}],["his youth and astonish his household; saffron from Kashmir, and the best",{"entites":[[51,58,"LOC"],[51,58,"LOC"],[51,58,"LOC"]]}],["salep of Cabul. Many people have died before--'",{"entites":[[9,14,"LOC"],[9,14,"LOC"],[9,14,"LOC"]]}],["'That I surely believe,' said Kim.",{"entites":[[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"]]}],["'They knew the value of my drugs. I do not give my sick the mere ink in",{"entites":[]}],["which a charm is written, but hot and rending drugs which descend and",{"entites":[]}],["wrestle with the evil.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Very mightily they do so,' sighed the old lady.",{"entites":[]}],["The voice launched into an immense tale of misfortune and bankruptcy,",{"entites":[]}],["studded with plentiful petitions to the Government. 'But for my fate,",{"entites":[]}],["which overrules all, I had been now in Government employ. I bear a",{"entites":[]}],["degree from the great school at Calcutta--whither, maybe, the son of",{"entites":[[32,40,"LOC"],[32,40,"LOC"],[32,40,"LOC"]]}],["this house shall go.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He shall indeed. If our neighbour's brat can in a few years be made an",{"entites":[]}],["F. A.' 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The child's father is away too, and I must be chowkedar",{"entites":[]}],["(watchman) in my old age. Up! Up! Take up the palanquin. Let the hakim",{"entites":[]}],["and the young priest settle between them whether charms or medicine most",{"entites":[]}],["avail. Ho! worthless people, fetch tobacco for the guests, and--round",{"entites":[[7,9,"PERSON"],[7,9,"PERSON"],[7,9,"PERSON"]]}],["the homestead go I!'",{"entites":[]}],["The palanquin reeled off, followed by straggling torches and a horde of",{"entites":[]}],["dogs. Twenty villages knew the Sahiba--her failings, her tongue, and",{"entites":[[31,37,"LOC"],[31,37,"LOC"],[31,37,"LOC"]]}],["her large charity. Twenty villages cheated her after immemorial custom,",{"entites":[]}],["but no man would have stolen or robbed within her jurisdiction for any",{"entites":[]}],["gift under Heaven. None the less, she made great parade of her formal",{"entites":[]}],["inspections, the riot of which could be heard half-way to Mussoorie.",{"entites":[[58,67,"LOC"],[58,67,"LOC"],[58,67,"LOC"]]}],["Kim relaxed, as one augur must when he meets another. The hakim, still",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["squatting, slid over his hookah with a friendly foot, and Kim pulled at",{"entites":[[58,61,"PERSON"],[58,61,"PERSON"],[58,61,"PERSON"]]}],["the good weed. The hangers-on expected grave professional debate, and",{"entites":[]}],["perhaps a little free doctoring.",{"entites":[]}],["'To discuss medicine before the ignorant is of one piece with teaching",{"entites":[]}],["the peacock to sing,' said the hakim.",{"entites":[]}],["'True courtesy,' Kim echoed, 'is very often inattention.'",{"entites":[[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"]]}],["These, be it understood, were company-manners, designed to impress.",{"entites":[]}],["'Hi! I have an ulcer on my leg,' cried a scullion. 'Look at it!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Get hence! Remove!' said the hakim. 'Is it the habit of the place to",{"entites":[]}],["pester honoured guests? Ye crowd in like buffaloes.'",{"entites":[]}],["'If the Sahiba knew--' Kim began.",{"entites":[[8,14,"PERSON"],[8,14,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"],[8,14,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"],[23,26,"PERSON"]]}],["'Ai! Ai! Come away. They are meat for our mistress. When her young",{"entites":[]}],["Shaitan's colics are cured perhaps we poor people may be suffered to--'",{"entites":[[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"],[0,7,"PERSON"]]}],["'The mistress fed thy wife when thou wast in jail for breaking the",{"entites":[]}],["money-lender's head. Who speaks against her?' The old servitor curled",{"entites":[]}],["his white moustaches savagely in the young moonlight. 'I am responsible",{"entites":[]}],["for the honour of this house. Go!' and he drove the underlings before",{"entites":[]}],["him.",{"entites":[]}],["Said the hakim, hardly more than shaping the words with his lips: 'How",{"entites":[]}],["do you do, Mr. O'Hara? I am jolly glad to see you again.'",{"entites":[[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"]]}],["Kim's hand clenched about the pipe-stem. Anywhere on the open road,",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["perhaps, he would not have been astonished; but here, in this quiet",{"entites":[]}],["backwater of life, he was not prepared for Hurree Babu. It annoyed him,",{"entites":[[43,54,"PERSON"],[43,54,"PERSON"],[43,54,"PERSON"]]}],["too, that he had been hoodwinked.",{"entites":[]}],["'Ah ha! I told you at Lucknow--resurgam--I shall rise again and you",{"entites":[[22,29,"LOC"],[22,29,"LOC"],[22,29,"LOC"]]}],["shall not know me. How much did you bet--eh?'",{"entites":[]}],["He chewed leisurely upon a few cardamom seeds, but he breathed uneasily.",{"entites":[]}],["'But why come here, Babuji?'",{"entites":[[20,26,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"],[20,26,"PERSON"]]}],["'Ah! Thatt is the question, as Shakespeare hath said. I come to",{"entites":[[31,42,"PERSON"],[31,42,"PERSON"],[31,42,"PERSON"]]}],["congratulate you on your extraordinary effeecient performance at Delhi.",{"entites":[[65,70,"LOC"],[65,70,"LOC"],[65,70,"LOC"]]}],["Oah! I tell you we are all proud of you. It was verree neat and handy.",{"entites":[]}],["Our mutual friend, he is old friend of mine. He has been in some",{"entites":[]}],["dam-tight places. Now he will be in some more. He told me; I tell Mr.",{"entites":[]}],["Lurgan; and he is pleased you graduate so nicely. All the Department is",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["pleased.'",{"entites":[]}],["For the first time in his life, Kim thrilled to the clean pride (it can",{"entites":[[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"]]}],["be a deadly pitfall, none the less) of Departmental praise--ensnaring",{"entites":[]}],["praise from an equal of work appreciated by fellow-workers. Earth has",{"entites":[]}],["nothing on the same plane to compare with it. But, cried the Oriental in",{"entites":[]}],["him, Babus do not travel far to retail compliments.",{"entites":[]}],["'Tell thy tale, Babu,' he said authoritatively.",{"entites":[[16,20,"PERSON"],[16,20,"PERSON"],[16,20,"PERSON"]]}],["'Oah, it is nothing. Onlee I was at Simla when the wire came in about",{"entites":[[36,41,"LOC"],[36,41,"LOC"],[36,41,"LOC"]]}],["what our mutual friend said he had hidden, and old Creighton--' He",{"entites":[[51,60,"PERSON"],[51,60,"PERSON"],[51,60,"PERSON"]]}],["looked to see how Kim would take this piece of audacity.",{"entites":[[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"],[18,21,"PERSON"]]}],["'The Colonel Sahib,' the boy from St. Xavier's corrected.",{"entites":[[13,18,"PERSON"],[34,44,"LOC"],[34,44,"LOC"],[34,44,"LOC"],[13,18,"PERSON"],[13,18,"PERSON"]]}],["'Of course. He found me at a loose string, and I had to go down to",{"entites":[]}],["Chitor to find that beastly letter. I do not like the South--too much",{"entites":[[54,59,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[54,59,"LOC"],[54,59,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["railway travel; but I drew good travelling allowance. Ha! Ha! I meet our",{"entites":[]}],["mutual at Delhi on the way back. He lies quiett just now, and says",{"entites":[[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"],[10,15,"LOC"]]}],["Saddhu-disguise suits him to the ground. Well, there I hear what you",{"entites":[[0,15,"PERSON"],[0,15,"PERSON"],[0,15,"PERSON"]]}],["have done so well, so quickly, upon the instantaneous spur of the",{"entites":[]}],["moment. I tell our mutual friend you take the bally bun, by Jove! It was",{"entites":[[60,64,"PERSON"],[60,64,"PERSON"],[60,64,"PERSON"]]}],["splendid. I come to tell you so.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Umm!'",{"entites":[]}],["The frogs were busy in the ditches, and the moon slid to her setting.",{"entites":[]}],["Some happy servant had gone out to commune with the night and to beat",{"entites":[]}],["upon a drum Kim's next sentence was in the vernacular.",{"entites":[[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"],[12,15,"PERSON"]]}],["'How didst thou follow us?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oah. Thatt was nothing. I know from our mutual friend you go to",{"entites":[]}],["Saharunpore. So I come on. Red lamas are not inconspicuous persons. I",{"entites":[[0,11,"LOC"],[0,11,"LOC"],[0,11,"LOC"]]}],["buy myself my drug-box, and I am very good doctor really. I go to Akrola",{"entites":[[66,72,"LOC"],[66,72,"LOC"],[66,72,"LOC"]]}],["by the Ford, and hear all about you, and I talk here and talk there. All",{"entites":[]}],["the common people know what you do. I know when the hospitable old lady",{"entites":[]}],["sent the dooli. They have great recollections of the old lama's visits",{"entites":[]}],["here. I know old ladies cannot keep their hands from medicines. So I am",{"entites":[]}],["a doctor, and--you hear my talk? I think it is verree good. My word,",{"entites":[]}],["Mister O'Hara, they know about you and the lama for fifty miles--the",{"entites":[[7,13,"PERSON"],[7,13,"PERSON"],[7,13,"PERSON"]]}],["common people. So I come. Do you mind?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Babuji,' said Kim, looking up at the broad, grinning face, 'I am a",{"entites":[[15,18,"PERSON"],[1,7,"PERSON"],[1,7,"PERSON"],[1,7,"PERSON"],[15,18,"PERSON"],[15,18,"PERSON"]]}],["Sahib.'",{"entites":[]}],["'My dear Mister O'Hara--'",{"entites":[[16,22,"PERSON"],[16,22,"PERSON"],[16,22,"PERSON"]]}],["'And I hope to play the Great Game.'",{"entites":[]}],["'You are subordinate to me departmentally at present.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Then why talk like an ape up in a tree? Men do not come after one from",{"entites":[]}],["Simla and change their dress, for the sake of a few sweet words. I am",{"entites":[[0,5,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"]]}],["not a child. Talk Hindi and let us get to the yolk of the egg. Thou art",{"entites":[]}],["here--speaking not one word of truth in ten. Why art thou here? Give a",{"entites":[]}],["straight answer.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is so verree disconcerting of the European, Mister O'Hara. You",{"entites":[[40,48,"LOC"],[57,63,"PERSON"],[40,48,"LOC"],[57,63,"PERSON"],[40,48,"LOC"],[57,63,"PERSON"]]}],["should know a heap better at your time of life.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But I want to know,' said Kim, laughing. 'If it is the Game, I may",{"entites":[[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"]]}],["help. How can I do anything if you bukh (babble) all round the shop.'",{"entites":[]}],["Hurree Babu reached for the pipe, and sucked it till it guggled again.",{"entites":[[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"]]}],["'Now I will speak vernacular. You sit tight, Mister O'Hara. . . . It",{"entites":[[52,58,"PERSON"],[52,58,"PERSON"],[52,58,"PERSON"]]}],["concerns the pedigree of a white stallion.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Still? That was finished long ago.'",{"entites":[]}],["'When every one is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before. Listen",{"entites":[]}],["to me till the end. There were Five Kings who prepared a sudden war",{"entites":[]}],["three years ago, when thou wast given the stallion's pedigree by Mahbub",{"entites":[[65,75,"PERSON"],[65,75,"PERSON"],[65,75,"PERSON"]]}],["Ali. Upon them, because of that news, and ere they were ready, fell our",{"entites":[]}],["Army.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay--eight thousand men with guns. I remember that night.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But the war was not pushed. That is the Government custom. The troops",{"entites":[]}],["were recalled because the Government believed the Five Kings were cowed;",{"entites":[]}],["and it is not cheap to feed men among the high Passes. Hilas and",{"entites":[[55,60,"PERSON"],[55,60,"PERSON"],[55,60,"PERSON"]]}],["Bunar--Rajahs with guns--undertook for a price to guard the passes",{"entites":[]}],["against all coming from the North. They protested both fear and",{"entites":[]}],["friendship.' 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I send word many times that these two Kings were",{"entites":[]}],["sold to the North; and Mahbub Ali, who was yet farther north, amply",{"entites":[[23,33,"PERSON"],[23,33,"PERSON"],[23,33,"PERSON"]]}],["confirmed it. Nothing was done. Only my feet were frozen, and a toe",{"entites":[]}],["dropped off. I sent word that the roads for which I was paying money to",{"entites":[]}],["the diggers were being made for the feet of strangers and enemies.'",{"entites":[]}],["'For?'",{"entites":[]}],["'For the Russians. The thing was an open jest among the coolies. Then I",{"entites":[]}],["was called down to tell what I knew by speech of tongue. Mahbub came",{"entites":[[57,63,"PERSON"],[57,63,"PERSON"],[57,63,"PERSON"]]}],["South too. See the end! Over the Passes this year after",{"entites":[]}],["snow-melting'--he shivered afresh--'come two strangers under cover of",{"entites":[]}],["shooting wild goats. They bear guns, but they bear also chains and",{"entites":[]}],["levels and compasses.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oho! The thing gets clearer.'",{"entites":[]}],["'They are well received by Hilas and Bunar. They make great promises;",{"entites":[[27,32,"PERSON"],[27,32,"PERSON"],[27,32,"PERSON"]]}],["they speak as the mouthpiece of a Kaisar with gifts. Up the valleys,",{"entites":[]}],["down the valleys go they, saying, \"Here is a place to build a",{"entites":[]}],["breastwork; here can ye pitch a fort. Here can ye hold the road against",{"entites":[]}],["an army\"--the very roads for which I paid out the rupees monthly. The",{"entites":[]}],["Government knows, but does nothing. The three other Kings, who were not",{"entites":[]}],["paid for guarding the passes, tell them by runner of the bad faith of",{"entites":[]}],["Bunar and Hilas. When all the evil is done, look you--when these two",{"entites":[[10,15,"PERSON"],[10,15,"PERSON"],[0,5,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"],[10,15,"PERSON"]]}],["strangers with the levels and the compasses make the Five Kings to",{"entites":[]}],["believe that a great army will sweep the Passes to-morrow or the next",{"entites":[]}],["day--Hill-people are all fools--comes the order to me, Hurree Babu, \"Go",{"entites":[[55,66,"PERSON"],[55,66,"PERSON"],[55,66,"PERSON"]]}],["North and see what those strangers do.\" I say to Creighton Sahib, \"This",{"entites":[[49,64,"PERSON"],[49,64,"PERSON"],[49,64,"PERSON"]]}],["is not a lawsuit, that we go about to collect evidence.\"' Hurree",{"entites":[[58,64,"PERSON"],[58,64,"PERSON"],[58,64,"PERSON"]]}],["returned to his English with a jerk: '\"By Jove,\" I said, \"why the dooce",{"entites":[[42,46,"PERSON"],[16,23,"LOC"],[16,23,"LOC"],[42,46,"PERSON"],[42,46,"PERSON"],[16,23,"LOC"]]}],["do you not issue demi-offeecial orders to some brave man to poison them,",{"entites":[]}],["for an example? It is, if you permit the observation, most reprehensible",{"entites":[]}],["laxity on your part.\" And Colonel Creighton, he laughed at me! It is all",{"entites":[[34,43,"PERSON"],[34,43,"PERSON"],[34,43,"PERSON"]]}],["your beastly English pride. You think no one dare conspire! That is all",{"entites":[[13,20,"LOC"],[13,20,"LOC"],[13,20,"LOC"]]}],["tommy-rott.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim smoked slowly, revolving the business, so far as he understood it,",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["in his quick mind.",{"entites":[]}],["'Then thou goest forth to follow the strangers?'",{"entites":[]}],["'No; to meet them. They are coming in to Simla to send down their horns",{"entites":[[41,46,"LOC"],[41,46,"LOC"],[41,46,"LOC"]]}],["and heads to be dressed at Calcutta. They are exclusively sporting",{"entites":[[27,35,"LOC"],[27,35,"LOC"],[27,35,"LOC"]]}],["gentlemen, and they are allowed special faceelities by the Government.",{"entites":[]}],["Of course, we always do that. It is our British pride.'",{"entites":[[40,47,"LOC"],[40,47,"LOC"],[40,47,"LOC"]]}],["'Then what is to fear from them?'",{"entites":[]}],["'By Jove, they are not black people. I can do all sorts of things with",{"entites":[[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"]]}],["black people, of course. They are Russians, and highly unscrupulous",{"entites":[]}],["people. I--I do not want to consort with them without a witness.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Will they kill thee?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oah, thatt is nothing. I am good enough Herbert Spencerian, I trust, to",{"entites":[[41,59,"PERSON"],[41,59,"PERSON"],[41,59,"PERSON"]]}],["meet little thing like death, which is all in my fate, you know.",{"entites":[]}],["But--but they may beat me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Why?'",{"entites":[]}],["Hurree Babu snapped his fingers with irritation. 'Of course I shall",{"entites":[[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"]]}],["affeeliate myself to their camp in supernumerary capacity as perhaps",{"entites":[]}],["interpreter, or person mentally impotent and hungree, or some such",{"entites":[]}],["thing. And then I must pick up what I can, I suppose. That is as easy",{"entites":[]}],["for me as playing Mister Doctor to the old lady. Onlee--onlee--you see,",{"entites":[]}],["Mister O'Hara, I am unfortunately Asiatic, which is serious detriment in",{"entites":[[7,13,"PERSON"],[7,13,"PERSON"],[7,13,"PERSON"]]}],["some respects. And all-so I am Bengali--a fearful man.'",{"entites":[]}],["'God made the Hare and the Bengali. What shame?' said Kim, quoting the",{"entites":[[54,57,"PERSON"],[14,18,"PERSON"],[54,57,"PERSON"],[14,18,"PERSON"],[54,57,"PERSON"]]}],["proverb.",{"entites":[]}],["'It was process of Evolution, I think, from Primal Necessity, but the",{"entites":[]}],["fact remains in all its cui bono. I am, oh, awfully fearful!--I remember",{"entites":[]}],["once they wanted to cut off my head on the road to Lhassa. (No, I have",{"entites":[[51,57,"LOC"],[51,57,"LOC"],[51,57,"LOC"]]}],["never reached to Lhassa.) I sat down and cried, Mister O'Hara,",{"entites":[[17,23,"PERSON"],[55,61,"PERSON"],[17,23,"PERSON"],[17,23,"PERSON"],[55,61,"PERSON"],[55,61,"PERSON"]]}],["anticipating Chinese tortures. I do not suppose these two gentlemen will",{"entites":[[13,20,"LOC"],[13,20,"LOC"],[13,20,"LOC"]]}],["torture me, but I like to provide for possible contingency with European",{"entites":[[64,72,"LOC"],[64,72,"LOC"],[64,72,"LOC"]]}],["assistance in emergency.' He coughed and spat out his cardamoms. 'It is",{"entites":[]}],["purely unoffeecial indent, to which you can say, \"No, Babu.\" If you have",{"entites":[[54,58,"PERSON"],[54,58,"PERSON"],[54,58,"PERSON"]]}],["no pressing engagement with your old man--perhaps you might divert him;",{"entites":[]}],["perhaps I can seduce his fancies--I should like you to keep in",{"entites":[]}],["Departmental touch with me till I find those sporting coves. I have",{"entites":[]}],["great opeenion of you since I met my friend at Delhi. And also I will",{"entites":[[47,52,"LOC"],[47,52,"LOC"],[47,52,"LOC"]]}],["embody your name in my offeecial report when matter is finally",{"entites":[]}],["adjudicated. It will be a great feather in your cap. That is why I come",{"entites":[]}],["really.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Humph! The end of the tale, I think, is true; but what of the",{"entites":[]}],["fore-part?'",{"entites":[]}],["'About the Five Kings? Oah! there is ever so much truth in it. A lots",{"entites":[]}],["more than you would suppose,' said Hurree earnestly. 'You come--eh? I go",{"entites":[[35,41,"PERSON"],[35,41,"PERSON"],[35,41,"PERSON"]]}],["from here straight into the Doon. It is verree verdant and painted",{"entites":[]}],["meads. I shall go to Mussoorie--to good old Mussoorie Pahar, as the",{"entites":[[44,59,"PERSON"],[21,30,"LOC"],[44,59,"PERSON"],[21,30,"LOC"],[21,30,"LOC"],[44,59,"PERSON"]]}],["gentlemen and ladies say. Then by Rampur into Chini. That is the only",{"entites":[[46,51,"PERSON"],[34,40,"LOC"],[46,51,"PERSON"],[34,40,"LOC"],[34,40,"LOC"],[46,51,"PERSON"]]}],["way they can come. I do not like waiting in the cold, but we must wait",{"entites":[]}],["for them. I want to walk with them to Simla. You see, one Russian is a",{"entites":[[38,43,"LOC"],[58,65,"LOC"],[38,43,"LOC"],[58,65,"LOC"],[58,65,"LOC"],[38,43,"LOC"]]}],["Frenchman, and I know my French pretty well. I have friends in",{"entites":[[0,9,"LOC"],[0,9,"LOC"],[25,31,"LOC"],[0,9,"LOC"],[25,31,"LOC"],[25,31,"LOC"]]}],["Chandernagore.'",{"entites":[[0,13,"LOC"],[0,13,"LOC"],[0,13,"LOC"]]}],["'He would certainly rejoice to see the Hills again,' said Kim",{"entites":[[39,44,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"],[58,61,"PERSON"],[58,61,"PERSON"],[58,61,"PERSON"]]}],["meditatively. 'All his speech these ten days past has been of little",{"entites":[]}],["else. If we go together--'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oah! We can be quite strangers on the road, if your lama prefers. I",{"entites":[]}],["shall just be four or five miles ahead. There is no hurry for",{"entites":[]}],["Hurree--that is an Europe pun, ha! ha!--and you come after. There is",{"entites":[[19,25,"LOC"],[19,25,"LOC"],[19,25,"LOC"]]}],["plenty of time; they will plot and survey and map of course. I shall go",{"entites":[]}],["to-morrow, and you the next day, if you choose. Eh? You go think on it",{"entites":[]}],["till morning. By Jove, it is near morning now.' He yawned ponderously,",{"entites":[[17,21,"PERSON"],[17,21,"PERSON"],[17,21,"PERSON"]]}],["and with never a civil word lumbered off to his sleeping-place. But Kim",{"entites":[[68,71,"PERSON"],[68,71,"PERSON"],[68,71,"PERSON"]]}],["slept little, and his thoughts ran in Hindustanee:",{"entites":[]}],["'Well is the Game called great! I was four days a scullion at Quetta,",{"entites":[[62,68,"LOC"],[62,68,"LOC"],[62,68,"LOC"]]}],["waiting on the wife of the man whose book I stole. And that was part of",{"entites":[]}],["the Great Game! From the South--God knows how far--came up the Mahratta,",{"entites":[[63,71,"LOC"],[25,30,"LOC"],[63,71,"LOC"],[25,30,"LOC"],[25,30,"LOC"],[63,71,"LOC"]]}],["playing the Great Game in fear of his life. Now I shall go far and far",{"entites":[]}],["into the North playing the Great Game. Truly, it runs like a shuttle",{"entites":[]}],["throughout all Hind. And my share and my joy'--he smiled to the",{"entites":[[15,19,"LOC"],[15,19,"LOC"],[15,19,"LOC"]]}],["darkness--'I owe to the lama here. Also to Mahbub Ali--also to Creighton",{"entites":[[63,78,"PERSON"],[43,53,"PERSON"],[63,78,"PERSON"],[43,53,"PERSON"],[63,78,"PERSON"],[43,53,"PERSON"]]}],["Sahib, but chiefly to the Holy One. He is right--a great and a wonderful",{"entites":[]}],["world--and I am Kim--Kim--Kim--alone--one person--in the middle of it",{"entites":[[16,19,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"],[21,24,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[16,19,"PERSON"]]}],["all. But I will see these strangers with their levels and chains . . .'",{"entites":[]}],["'What was the upshot of last night's babble?' said the lama, after his",{"entites":[]}],["orisons.",{"entites":[]}],["'There came a strolling seller of drugs--a hanger-on of the Sahiba's.",{"entites":[]}],["Him I abolished by arguments and prayers, proving that our charms are",{"entites":[]}],["worthier than his coloured waters.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Alas! my charms. Is the virtuous woman still bent upon a new one?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Very strictly.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Then it must be written, or she will deafen me with her clamour.' He",{"entites":[]}],["fumbled at his pencase.",{"entites":[]}],["'In the Plains,' said Kim, 'are always too many people. In the Hills, as",{"entites":[[22,25,"PERSON"],[63,68,"LOC"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[63,68,"LOC"],[63,68,"LOC"],[22,25,"PERSON"]]}],["I understand, there are fewer.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh! the Hills, and the snow upon the Hills.' 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Then I will at least cook ye good",{"entites":[]}],["food.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What a woman is the Sahiba!' said the white-bearded Oorya, when a",{"entites":[[53,58,"PERSON"],[53,58,"PERSON"],[53,58,"PERSON"]]}],["tumult rose by the kitchen quarters. 'She has never forgotten a friend:",{"entites":[]}],["she has never forgotten an enemy in all her years. And her",{"entites":[]}],["cookery--wah!' He rubbed his slim stomach.",{"entites":[]}],["There were cakes, there were sweetmeats, there was cold fowl stewed to",{"entites":[]}],["rags with rice and prunes--enough to burden Kim like a mule.",{"entites":[[44,47,"PERSON"],[44,47,"PERSON"],[44,47,"PERSON"]]}],["'I am old and useless,' she said. 'None now love me--and none",{"entites":[]}],["respect--but there are few to compare with me when I call on the Gods",{"entites":[]}],["and squat to my cooking-pots. Come again, O people of good will! Holy",{"entites":[]}],["One and disciple, come again! The room is always prepared; the welcome",{"entites":[]}],["is always ready. . . . See the women do not follow thy chela too openly.",{"entites":[]}],["I know the women of Kulu. Take heed, chela, lest he run away when he",{"entites":[[20,24,"LOC"],[20,24,"LOC"],[20,24,"LOC"]]}],["smells his Hills again. . . . Hai! Do not tilt the rice-bag upside",{"entites":[[11,16,"LOC"],[11,16,"LOC"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[11,16,"LOC"],[30,33,"PERSON"]]}],["down. . . . Bless the household, Holy One, and forgive thy servant her",{"entites":[]}],["stupidities.'",{"entites":[]}],["She wiped her red old eyes on a corner of her veil, and clucked",{"entites":[]}],["throatily.",{"entites":[]}],["'Women talk,' said the lama at last, 'but that is a woman's infirmity. I",{"entites":[]}],["gave her a charm. 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I spoke to",{"entites":[]}],["him--when thou wast talking to the Sahiba--of a certain dizziness that",{"entites":[[35,41,"LOC"],[35,41,"LOC"],[35,41,"LOC"]]}],["lays hold upon the back of my neck in the night, and he said it rose",{"entites":[]}],["from excessive heat--to be cured by cool air. Upon consideration, I",{"entites":[]}],["marvelled that I had not thought of such a simple remedy.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Didst thou tell him of thy Search?' said Kim, a little jealously. He",{"entites":[[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"]]}],["preferred to sway the lama by his own speech--not through the wiles of",{"entites":[]}],["Hurree Babu.",{"entites":[[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"]]}],["'Assuredly. I told him of my dream, and of the manner by which I had",{"entites":[]}],["acquired merit by causing thee to be taught wisdom.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Thou didst not say I was a Sahib?'",{"entites":[[28,33,"PERSON"],[28,33,"PERSON"],[28,33,"PERSON"]]}],["'What need? I have told thee many times we be but two souls seeking",{"entites":[]}],["escape. He said--and he is just herein--that the River of Healing will",{"entites":[]}],["break forth even as I dreamed--at my feet if need be. Having found the",{"entites":[]}],["Way, seest thou, that shall free me from the Wheel, need I trouble to",{"entites":[]}],["find a way about the mere fields of earth--which are illusion? That were",{"entites":[]}],["senseless. I have my dreams, night upon night repeated; I have the",{"entites":[]}],["\"Jataka\"; and I have thee, Friend of all the World. It was written in",{"entites":[]}],["thy horoscope that a Red Bull on a green field--I have not",{"entites":[[21,29,"LOC"],[21,29,"LOC"],[21,29,"LOC"]]}],["forgotten--should bring thee to honour. Who but I saw that prophecy",{"entites":[]}],["accomplished? Indeed, I was the instrument. Thou shalt find me my River,",{"entites":[]}],["being in return the instrument. The Search is sure!'",{"entites":[]}],["He set his ivory-yellow face, serene and untroubled, towards the",{"entites":[]}],["beckoning Hills; his shadow shouldering far before him in the dust.",{"entites":[[10,15,"PERSON"],[10,15,"PERSON"],[10,15,"PERSON"]]}],["CHAPTER XIII",{"entites":[]}],["  'Who hath desired the Sea--the immense and contemptuous surges?",{"entites":[]}],["   The shudder, the stumble, the swerve ere the star-stabbing bowsprit",{"entites":[]}],["                emerges--",{"entites":[]}],["   The orderly clouds of the Trades and the ridged roaring sapphire",{"entites":[]}],["                thereunder--",{"entites":[]}],["   Unheralded cliff-lurking flaws and the head-sails' low-volleying",{"entites":[]}],["                thunder?",{"entites":[]}],["   His Sea in no wonder the same--his Sea and the same in each wonder--",{"entites":[]}],["           His Sea that his being fulfils?",{"entites":[]}],["   So and no otherwise--so and no otherwise Hill-men desire their",{"entites":[]}],["                Hills!'",{"entites":[]}],["'WHO goes to the Hills goes to his mother.'",{"entites":[[17,22,"PERSON"],[17,22,"PERSON"],[17,22,"PERSON"]]}],["They had crossed the Sewaliks and the half-tropical Doon, left Mussoorie",{"entites":[[63,72,"LOC"],[63,72,"LOC"],[63,72,"LOC"]]}],["behind them, and headed north along the narrow hill-roads. Day after day",{"entites":[]}],["they struck deeper into the huddled mountains, and day after day Kim",{"entites":[[65,68,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"]]}],["watched the lama return to a man's strength. Among the terraces of the",{"entites":[]}],["Doon he had leaned on the boy's shoulder, ready to profit by wayside",{"entites":[]}],["halts. Under the great ramp to Mussoorie he drew himself together as an",{"entites":[[31,40,"LOC"],[31,40,"LOC"],[31,40,"LOC"]]}],["old hunter faces a well-remembered bank, and where he should have sunk",{"entites":[]}],["exhausted swung his long draperies about him, drew a deep",{"entites":[]}],["double-lungful of the diamond air, and walked as only a hillman can.",{"entites":[]}],["Kim, plains-bred and plains-fed, sweated and panted astonished. 'This is",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["my country,' said the lama. 'Beside Suchzen, this is flatter than a",{"entites":[]}],["rice-field'; and with steady, driving strokes from the loins he strode",{"entites":[]}],["upwards. But it was on the steep downhill marches, three thousand feet",{"entites":[]}],["in three hours, that he went utterly away from Kim, whose back ached",{"entites":[[47,50,"PERSON"],[47,50,"PERSON"],[47,50,"PERSON"]]}],["with holding back, and whose big toe was nigh cut off by his grass",{"entites":[]}],["sandal-string. Through the speckled shadow of the great deodar-forests;",{"entites":[]}],["through oak feathered and plumed with ferns; birch, ilex, rhododendron,",{"entites":[]}],["and pine, out on to the bare hillsides' slippery sunburnt grass, and",{"entites":[]}],["back into the woodlands' coolth again, till oak gave way to bamboo and",{"entites":[]}],["palm of the valley, the lama swung untiring.",{"entites":[]}],["Glancing back in the twilight at the huge ridges behind him and the",{"entites":[]}],["faint thin line of the road whereby they had come, he would lay out,",{"entites":[]}],["with a hillman's generous breadth of vision, fresh marches for the",{"entites":[]}],["morrow; or, halting in the neck of some uplifted pass that gave on Spiti",{"entites":[[67,72,"LOC"],[67,72,"LOC"],[67,72,"LOC"]]}],["and Kulu, would stretch out his hands yearningly towards the high snows",{"entites":[[4,8,"LOC"],[4,8,"LOC"],[4,8,"LOC"]]}],["of the horizon. 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The lama was mildly",{"entites":[]}],["surprised that any one should object to the knife-edged breezes which",{"entites":[]}],["had cut the years off his shoulders.",{"entites":[]}],["'These are but the lower hills, chela. There is no cold till we come to",{"entites":[]}],["the true Hills.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Air and water are good, and the people are devout enough, but the food",{"entites":[]}],["is very bad,' Kim growled; 'and we walk as though we were mad--or",{"entites":[[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"]]}],["English. It freezes at night, too.'",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["'A little, maybe; but only enough to make old bones rejoice in the sun.",{"entites":[]}],["We must not always delight in the soft beds and rich food.'",{"entites":[]}],["'We might at the least keep to the road.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim had all a plains-man's affection for the well-trodden track, not six",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["feet wide, that snaked among the mountains; but the lama, being Tibetan,",{"entites":[]}],["could not refrain from short cuts over spurs and the rims of",{"entites":[]}],["gravel-strewn slopes. As he explained to his limping disciple, a man",{"entites":[]}],["bred among mountains can prophesy the course of a mountain-road, and",{"entites":[]}],["though low-lying clouds might be a hindrance to a short-cutting",{"entites":[]}],["stranger, they made no earthly difference to a thoughtful man. Thus,",{"entites":[]}],["after long hours of what would be reckoned very fair mountaineering in",{"entites":[]}],["civilised countries, they would pant over a saddle-back, sidle past a",{"entites":[]}],["few landslips, and drop through forest at an angle of forty-five on to",{"entites":[]}],["the road again. Along their track lay the villages of the hill-folk--mud",{"entites":[]}],["and earth huts, the timbers now and then rudely carved with an",{"entites":[]}],["axe--clinging like swallows' nests against the steeps, huddled on tiny",{"entites":[]}],["flats half-way down a three-thousand-foot glissade; jammed into a corner",{"entites":[]}],["between cliffs that funnelled and focused every wandering blast; or, for",{"entites":[]}],["the sake of summer pasture, cowering down on a neck that in winter would",{"entites":[]}],["be ten feet deep in snow. And the people--the sallow, greasy,",{"entites":[]}],["duffle-clad people, with short bare legs and faces almost",{"entites":[]}],["Esquimaux--would flock out and adore. The Plains--kindly and gentle--had",{"entites":[]}],["treated the lama as a holy man among holy men. But the Hills worshipped",{"entites":[[55,60,"LOC"]]}],["him as one in the confidence of all the devils. Theirs was an almost",{"entites":[]}],["obliterated Buddhism, overlaid with a nature-worship fantastic as their",{"entites":[]}],["own landscapes, elaborate as the terracing of their tiny fields; but",{"entites":[]}],["they recognised the big hat, the clicking rosary, and the rare Chinese",{"entites":[[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"],[63,70,"LOC"]]}],["texts for great authority; and they respected the man under the hat.",{"entites":[]}],["'We saw thee come down over the black Breasts of Eua,' said a Betah who",{"entites":[]}],["gave them cheese, sour milk, and stone-hard bread one evening. 'We do",{"entites":[]}],["not use that often--except when calving cows stray in summer. There is a",{"entites":[]}],["sudden wind among those stones that casts men down on the stillest day.",{"entites":[]}],["But what should such folk care for the Devil of Eua!'",{"entites":[]}],["Then did Kim, aching in every fibre, dizzy with looking down, footsore",{"entites":[[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"]]}],["with cramping desperate toes into inadequate crannies, take joy in the",{"entites":[]}],["day's march--such joy as a boy of St. Xavier's who had won the",{"entites":[[34,44,"PERSON"],[34,44,"PERSON"],[34,44,"PERSON"]]}],["quarter-mile on the flat might take in the praises of his friends. The",{"entites":[]}],["hills sweated the ghi and sugar suet off his bones; the dry air, taken",{"entites":[]}],["sobbingly at the head of cruel passes, firmed and built out his upper",{"entites":[]}],["ribs; and tilted levels put new hard muscles into calf and thigh.",{"entites":[]}],["They meditated often on the Wheel of Life--the more so since, as the",{"entites":[]}],["lama said, they were freed from its visible temptations. Except the gray",{"entites":[]}],["eagle and an occasional far-seen bear grubbing and rooting on the",{"entites":[]}],["hillside, the vision of a furious painted leopard met at dawn in a still",{"entites":[]}],["valley devouring a goat, and now and again a bright-coloured bird, they",{"entites":[]}],["were alone with the winds and the grass singing under the wind. The",{"entites":[]}],["women of the smoky huts over whose roofs the two walked as they",{"entites":[]}],["descended the mountains, were unlovely and unclean, wives of many",{"entites":[]}],["husbands, and afflicted with goitre. The men were wood-cutters when they",{"entites":[]}],["were not farmers--meek, and of an incredible simplicity. But that",{"entites":[]}],["suitable discourse might not fail, Fate sent them, overtaking and",{"entites":[]}],["overtaken upon the road, the courteous Dacca physician, who paid for his",{"entites":[[39,44,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"],[39,44,"LOC"]]}],["food in ointments good for goitre and counsels that restore peace",{"entites":[]}],["between men and women. He seemed to know these hills as well as he knew",{"entites":[]}],["the hill dialects, and gave the lama the lie of the land towards Ladakh",{"entites":[[65,71,"LOC"],[65,71,"LOC"],[65,71,"LOC"]]}],["and Tibet. He said they could return to the Plains at any moment.",{"entites":[]}],["Meantime, for such as loved mountains, yonder road might amuse. This was",{"entites":[]}],["not all revealed in a breath, but at evening encounters on the stone",{"entites":[]}],["threshing-floors, when, patients disposed of, the doctor would smoke and",{"entites":[]}],["the lama snuff, while Kim watched the wee cows grazing on the",{"entites":[[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"],[22,25,"PERSON"]]}],["house-tops, or threw his soul after his eye across the deep blue gulfs",{"entites":[]}],["between range and range. And there were talks apart in the dark woods,",{"entites":[]}],["when the doctor would seek herbs, and Kim, as budding physician, must",{"entites":[[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"],[38,41,"PERSON"]]}],["accompany him.",{"entites":[]}],["'You see, Mister O'Hara, I do not know what the deuce-an'-all I shall do",{"entites":[[17,23,"PERSON"],[17,23,"PERSON"],[17,23,"PERSON"]]}],["when I find our sporting friends; but if you will kindly keep within",{"entites":[]}],["sight of my umbrella, which is fine fixed point for cadastral survey, I",{"entites":[]}],["feel much better.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim looked out across the jungle of peaks. 'This is not my country,",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["hakim. Easier, I think, to find one louse in a bearskin.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oah, thatt is my strong points. There is no hurry for Hurree. They were",{"entites":[]}],["at Leh not so long ago. They said they had come down from the Kara Korum",{"entites":[[62,72,"PERSON"],[62,72,"PERSON"],[62,72,"PERSON"]]}],["with their heads and horns and all. I am onlee afraid they will have",{"entites":[]}],["sent back all their letters and compromising things from Leh into",{"entites":[]}],["Russian territoree. Of course they will walk away as far to the East as",{"entites":[[64,68,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[64,68,"LOC"],[64,68,"LOC"]]}],["possible--just to show that they were never among the Western States.",{"entites":[[54,68,"LOC"],[54,68,"LOC"],[54,68,"LOC"]]}],["You do not know the Hills?' He scratched with a twig on the earth.",{"entites":[]}],["'Look! They should have come in by Srinagar or Abbottabad. Thatt is",{"entites":[[47,57,"LOC"],[35,43,"LOC"],[47,57,"LOC"],[35,43,"LOC"],[47,57,"LOC"],[35,43,"LOC"]]}],["their short road--down the river by Bunji and Astor. 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Please keep your eye on the umbrella.'",{"entites":[[19,25,"LOC"],[19,25,"LOC"],[13,18,"LOC"],[19,25,"LOC"],[13,18,"LOC"],[13,18,"LOC"]]}],["It nodded like a wind-blown harebell down the valleys and round the",{"entites":[]}],["mountain sides, and in due time the lama and Kim, who steered by",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["compass, would overhaul it, vending ointments and powders at eventide.",{"entites":[]}],["'We came by such and such a way!' The lama would throw a careless finger",{"entites":[]}],["backward at the ridges, and the umbrella would expend itself in",{"entites":[]}],["compliments.",{"entites":[]}],["They crossed a snowy pass in cold moonlight, when the lama, mildly",{"entites":[]}],["chaffing Kim, went through up to his knees, like a Bactrian camel--the",{"entites":[[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"]]}],["snow-bred, shag-haired sort that come into the Kashmir Serai. 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They",{"entites":[]}],["skirted a shoulder painfully for hours, and, behold, it was but an",{"entites":[]}],["outlying boss in an outlying buttress of the main pile! A rounded meadow",{"entites":[]}],["revealed itself, when they had reached it, for a vast tableland running",{"entites":[]}],["far into the valley. Three days later, it was a dim fold in the earth to",{"entites":[[52,56,"LOC"],[52,56,"LOC"],[52,56,"LOC"]]}],["southward.",{"entites":[]}],["'Surely the Gods live here,' said Kim, beaten down by the silence and",{"entites":[[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"],[34,37,"PERSON"]]}],["the appalling sweep and dispersal of the cloud-shadows after rain. 'This",{"entites":[]}],["is no place for men!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Long and long ago,' said the lama, as to himself, 'it was asked of the",{"entites":[]}],["Lord whether the world were everlasting. To this the Excellent One",{"entites":[]}],["returned no answer. . . . 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Above these again, changeless since the world's",{"entites":[]}],["beginning, but changing to every mood of sun and cloud, lay out the",{"entites":[]}],["eternal snow. They could see blots and blurs on its face where storm and",{"entites":[]}],["wandering wullie-wa got up to dance. 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To fight a fellow-Continental in our game is something. There is a",{"entites":[]}],["risk attached, but these people--bah! It is too easy.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Pride--all pride, my friend.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Now what the deuce is good of Chandernagore being so close to Calcutta",{"entites":[[63,71,"LOC"],[31,44,"LOC"],[63,71,"LOC"],[31,44,"LOC"],[31,44,"LOC"],[63,71,"LOC"]]}],["and all,' said Hurree, snoring open-mouthed on the sodden moss, 'if I",{"entites":[[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"]]}],["cannot understand their French. They talk so par-tic-ularly fast! It",{"entites":[[24,30,"LOC"],[24,30,"LOC"],[24,30,"LOC"]]}],["would have been much better to cut their beastly throats.'",{"entites":[]}],["When he presented himself again he was racked with a headache--penitent,",{"entites":[]}],["and volubly afraid that in his drunkenness he might have been",{"entites":[]}],["indiscreet. 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He confides to me last",{"entites":[]}],["night,' etc.",{"entites":[]}],["Under the striped umbrella Hurree Babu was straining ear and brain to",{"entites":[[27,38,"PERSON"],[27,38,"PERSON"],[27,38,"PERSON"]]}],["follow the quick-poured French, and keeping both eyes on a kilta full of",{"entites":[[24,30,"LOC"],[24,30,"LOC"],[24,30,"LOC"]]}],["maps and documents--an extra large one with a double red oilskin cover.",{"entites":[]}],["He did not wish to steal anything. He only desired to know what to",{"entites":[]}],["steal, and, incidentally, how to get away when he had stolen it. 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Why does this make one feel that we are so young a",{"entites":[]}],["people?' The speaker struck passionately at a tall weed. 'We have",{"entites":[]}],["nowhere left our mark yet. Nowhere! That, do you understand, is what",{"entites":[]}],["disquiets me.' He scowled at the placid face, and the monumental calm of",{"entites":[]}],["the pose.",{"entites":[]}],["'Have patience. We shall make your mark together--we and you young",{"entites":[]}],["people. Meantime, draw his picture.'",{"entites":[]}],["The Babu advanced loftily; his back out of all keeping with his",{"entites":[[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"]]}],["deferential speech, or his wink towards Kim.",{"entites":[[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"],[40,43,"PERSON"]]}],["'Holy One, these be Sahibs. My medicines cured one of a flux, and I go",{"entites":[]}],["into Simla to oversee his recovery. They wish to see thy picture--'",{"entites":[]}],["'To heal the sick is always good. 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Take their papers, and specially the murasla (King's letter). Go!",{"entites":[]}],["The other man comes!'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim tore up hill. A revolver-bullet rang on a rock by his side, and he",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["cowered partridge-wise.",{"entites":[]}],["'If you shoot,' shouted Hurree, 'they will descend and annihilate us. I",{"entites":[[24,30,"PERSON"],[24,30,"PERSON"],[24,30,"PERSON"]]}],["have rescued the gentleman, Sar. This is par-tic-ularly dangerous.'",{"entites":[[28,31,"LOC"],[28,31,"LOC"],[28,31,"LOC"]]}],["'By Jove!' Kim was thinking hard in English. 'This is dam-tight place,",{"entites":[[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"],[11,14,"PERSON"],[36,43,"LOC"],[36,43,"LOC"],[11,14,"PERSON"],[36,43,"LOC"],[4,8,"PERSON"]]}],["but I think it is self-defence.' 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For the",{"entites":[]}],["rest, he could so stage-manage the journey through the hills that Hilas,",{"entites":[[66,71,"PERSON"],[66,71,"PERSON"],[66,71,"PERSON"]]}],["Bunar, and four hundred miles of hill-roads should tell the tale for a",{"entites":[]}],["generation. Men who cannot control their own coolies are little",{"entites":[]}],["respected in the Hills, and the hillman has a very keen sense of humour.",{"entites":[[17,22,"LOC"],[17,22,"LOC"],[17,22,"LOC"]]}],["'If I had done it myself,' thought Hurree, 'it would not have been",{"entites":[[35,41,"PERSON"],[35,41,"PERSON"],[35,41,"PERSON"]]}],["better; and, by Jove, now I think of it, of course I arranged it myself.",{"entites":[[16,20,"PERSON"],[16,20,"PERSON"],[16,20,"PERSON"]]}],["How quick I have been! Just when I ran down hill I thought it! Thee",{"entites":[]}],["outrage was accidental, but onlee me could have worked it--ah--for all",{"entites":[]}],["it was dam well worth. Consider the moral effect upon these ignorant",{"entites":[]}],["peoples! No treaties--no papers--no written documents at all--and me to",{"entites":[]}],["interpret for them. How I shall laugh with the Colonel! I wish I had",{"entites":[]}],["their papers also: but you cannot occupy two places in space",{"entites":[]}],["simultaneously. Thatt is axiomatic.'",{"entites":[]}],["CHAPTER XIV",{"entites":[]}],["          My brother kneels (so saith Kabir)",{"entites":[[38,43,"PERSON"],[38,43,"PERSON"],[38,43,"PERSON"]]}],["            To stone and brass in heathen-wise,",{"entites":[]}],["          But in my brother's voice I hear",{"entites":[]}],["            My own unanswered agonies.",{"entites":[]}],["          His God is as his Fates assign--",{"entites":[]}],["          His prayer is all the world's--and mine.",{"entites":[]}],["                                                Kabir.",{"entites":[[48,53,"PERSON"],[48,53,"PERSON"],[48,53,"PERSON"]]}],["AT moonrise the cautious coolies got under way. The lama, refreshed by",{"entites":[]}],["his sleep and the spirit, needed no more than Kim's shoulder to bear him",{"entites":[[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"],[46,49,"PERSON"]]}],["along--a silent, swift-striding man. They held the shale-sprinkled grass",{"entites":[]}],["for an hour, swept round the shoulder of an immortal cliff, and climbed",{"entites":[]}],["into a new country entirely blocked off from all sight of Chini valley.",{"entites":[[64,70,"LOC"],[64,70,"LOC"],[58,63,"LOC"],[58,63,"LOC"],[58,63,"LOC"],[64,70,"LOC"]]}],["A huge pasture-ground ran up fan-shaped to the living snow. At its base",{"entites":[]}],["was perhaps half an acre of flat land, on which stood a few soil and",{"entites":[]}],["timber huts. Behind them--for, hill-fashion, they were perched on the",{"entites":[]}],["edge of all things--the ground fell sheer two thousand feet to Shamlegh",{"entites":[]}],["midden, where never yet man has set foot.",{"entites":[]}],["The men made no motion to divide the plunder till they had seen the lama",{"entites":[]}],["bedded down in the best room of the place, with Kim shampooing his feet,",{"entites":[[48,51,"PERSON"],[48,51,"PERSON"],[48,51,"PERSON"]]}],["Mohammedan fashion.",{"entites":[]}],["'We will send food,' said the Ao-chung man, 'and the red-topped kilta.",{"entites":[]}],["By dawn there will be none to give evidence, one way or the other. If",{"entites":[]}],["anything is not needed in the kilta--see here!'",{"entites":[]}],["He pointed through the window--opening into space that was filled with",{"entites":[]}],["moonlight reflected from the snow--and threw out an empty whisky-bottle.",{"entites":[]}],["'No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end,' he said, and",{"entites":[]}],["swung off. The lama looked forth, a hand on either sill, with eyes that",{"entites":[]}],["shone like yellow opals. From the enormous pit before him white peaks",{"entites":[]}],["lifted themselves yearning to the moonlight. The rest was as the",{"entites":[]}],["darkness of interstellar space.",{"entites":[]}],["'These,' he said slowly, 'are indeed my Hills. Thus should a man abide,",{"entites":[]}],["perched above the world, separated from delights, considering vast",{"entites":[]}],["matters.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Yes; if he has a chela to prepare tea for him, and to fold a blanket",{"entites":[]}],["for his head, and to chase out calving cows.'",{"entites":[]}],["A smoky lamp burned in a niche, but the full moonlight beat it down; and",{"entites":[]}],["by the mixed light, stooping above the food-bag and cups, Kim moved like",{"entites":[[58,61,"PERSON"],[58,61,"PERSON"],[58,61,"PERSON"]]}],["a tall ghost.",{"entites":[]}],["'Ai! But now I have let the blood cool my head still beats and drums,",{"entites":[]}],["and there is a cord round the back of my neck.'",{"entites":[]}],["'No wonder. It was a strong blow. May he who dealt it--'",{"entites":[]}],["'But for my own passions there would have been no evil.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What evil? Thou hast saved the Sahibs from death they deserved a",{"entites":[]}],["hundred times.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The lesson is not well learnt, chela.' The lama came to rest on a",{"entites":[]}],["folded blanket, as Kim went forward with his evening routine. 'The blow",{"entites":[[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"]]}],["was but a shadow upon a shadow. Evil in itself--my legs weary apace",{"entites":[]}],["these latter days!--it met evil in me--anger, rage, and a lust to return",{"entites":[]}],["evil. These wrought in my blood, woke tumult in my stomach, and dazzled",{"entites":[]}],["my ears.' Here he drank scalding black-tea ceremonially, taking the hot",{"entites":[]}],["cup from Kim's hand. 'Had I been passionless, the evil blow would have",{"entites":[[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"]]}],["done only bodily evil--a scar, or a bruise--which is illusion. But my",{"entites":[]}],["mind was not abstracted, for rushed in straightway a lust to let the",{"entites":[]}],["Spiti men kill. In fighting that lust, my soul was torn and wrenched",{"entites":[[0,5,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"]]}],["beyond a thousand blows. Not till I had repeated the Blessings (he meant",{"entites":[]}],["the Buddhist Beatitudes) did I achieve calm. But the evil planted in me",{"entites":[]}],["by that moment's carelessness works out to its end. Just is the Wheel,",{"entites":[]}],["swerving not a hair! Learn the lesson, chela.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is too high for me,' Kim muttered. 'I am still all shaken. I am glad",{"entites":[[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"],[25,28,"PERSON"]]}],["I hurt the man.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I felt that sleeping upon thy knees, in the wood below. It disquieted",{"entites":[]}],["me in my dreams--the evil in thy soul working through to mine. Yet on",{"entites":[]}],["the other hand'--he loosed his rosary--'I have acquired merit by saving",{"entites":[]}],["two lives--the lives of those that wronged me. Now I must see into the",{"entites":[]}],["Cause of Things. The boat of my soul staggers.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Sleep, and be strong. That is wisest.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I meditate: there is a need greater than thou knowest.'",{"entites":[]}],["Till the dawn, hour after hour, as the moonlight paled on the high",{"entites":[]}],["peaks, and that which had been belted blackness on the sides of the far",{"entites":[]}],["hills showed as tender green forest, the lama stared fixedly at the",{"entites":[]}],["wall. From time to time he groaned. Outside the barred door, where",{"entites":[]}],["discomfited kine came to ask for their old stable, Shamlegh and the",{"entites":[[51,59,"PERSON"],[51,59,"PERSON"],[51,59,"PERSON"]]}],["coolies gave itself up to plunder and riotous living. The Ao-chung man",{"entites":[]}],["was their leader, and once they had opened the Sahibs' tinned foods and",{"entites":[]}],["found that they were very good they dared not turn back. Shamlegh",{"entites":[]}],["kitchen-midden took the dunnage.",{"entites":[]}],["When Kim, after a night of bad dreams, stole forth to brush his teeth in",{"entites":[[5,8,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"]]}],["the morning chill, a fair-coloured woman with turquoise-studded headgear",{"entites":[]}],["drew him aside.",{"entites":[]}],["'The others have gone. They left thee this kilta as the promise was. I",{"entites":[]}],["do not love Sahibs, but thou wilt make us a charm in return for it. We",{"entites":[[12,18,"PERSON"],[12,18,"PERSON"],[12,18,"PERSON"]]}],["do not wish little Shamlegh to get a bad name on account of",{"entites":[[19,27,"PERSON"],[19,27,"PERSON"],[19,27,"PERSON"]]}],["the--accident. I am the Woman of Shamlegh.' She looked him over with",{"entites":[[15,41,"PERSON"],[15,41,"PERSON"],[15,41,"PERSON"]]}],["bold, bright eyes, unlike the usual furtive glance of hillwomen.",{"entites":[]}],["'Assuredly. But it must be done in secret.'",{"entites":[]}],["She raised the heavy kilta like a toy and slung it into her own hut.",{"entites":[]}],["'Out and bar the door! Let none come near till it is finished.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But afterwards--we may talk?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim tilted the kilta on the floor--a cascade of Survey-instruments,",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["books, diaries, letters, maps, and queerly scented, native",{"entites":[]}],["correspondence. At the very bottom was an embroidered bag covering a",{"entites":[]}],["sealed, gilded, and illuminated document such as one King sends to",{"entites":[]}],["another. Kim caught his breath with delight, and reviewed the situation",{"entites":[[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"],[9,12,"PERSON"]]}],["from a Sahib's point of view.",{"entites":[[7,12,"PERSON"],[7,12,"PERSON"],[7,12,"PERSON"]]}],["'The books I do not want. Besides, they are logarithms--Survey, I",{"entites":[]}],["suppose.' He laid them aside. 'The letters I do not understand, but",{"entites":[]}],["Colonel Creighton will. They must all be kept. The maps--they draw",{"entites":[[8,17,"PERSON"],[8,17,"PERSON"],[8,17,"PERSON"]]}],["better maps than me--of course. All the native letters--oho!--and",{"entites":[]}],["particularly the murasla.' He sniffed the embroidered bag. 'That must be",{"entites":[]}],["from Hilas or Bunar, and Hurree Babu spoke truth. By Jove! It is a fine",{"entites":[[5,10,"LOC"],[5,10,"LOC"],[53,57,"PERSON"],[25,36,"PERSON"],[5,10,"LOC"],[25,36,"PERSON"],[25,36,"PERSON"],[53,57,"PERSON"],[53,57,"PERSON"]]}],["haul. I wish Hurree could know. . . . The rest must go out of the window.'",{"entites":[[13,19,"PERSON"],[13,19,"PERSON"],[13,19,"PERSON"]]}],["He fingered a superb prismatic compass and the shiny top of a",{"entites":[]}],["theodolite. But after all, a Sahib cannot very well steal, and the",{"entites":[]}],["things might be inconvenient evidence later. He sorted out every scrap",{"entites":[]}],["of manuscript, every map, and the native letters. They made one softish",{"entites":[]}],["slab. The three locked ferril-backed books, with five worn pocket-books,",{"entites":[]}],["he put aside.",{"entites":[]}],["'The letters and the murasla I must carry inside my coat and under my",{"entites":[]}],["belt, and the hand-written books I must put into the food-bag. It will",{"entites":[]}],["be very heavy. No. I do not think there is anything more. If there is,",{"entites":[]}],["the coolies have thrown it down the khud, so thatt is all right. Now you",{"entites":[]}],["go too.' He repacked the kilta with all he meant to lose, and hove it up",{"entites":[]}],["on to the window-sill. A thousand feet below lay a long, lazy,",{"entites":[]}],["round-shouldered bank of mist, as yet untouched by the morning sun. A",{"entites":[]}],["thousand feet below that was an hundred-year-old pine-forest. He could",{"entites":[]}],["see the green tops looking like a bed of moss when a wind-eddy thinned",{"entites":[]}],["the cloud.",{"entites":[]}],["'No! I don't think any one will go after you!'",{"entites":[]}],["The wheeling basket vomited its contents as it dropped. The theodolite",{"entites":[]}],["hit a jutting cliff-ledge and exploded like a shell; the books,",{"entites":[]}],["inkstand, paint-boxes, compasses, and rulers showed for a few seconds",{"entites":[]}],["like a swarm of bees. Then they vanished; and, though Kim, hanging half",{"entites":[[54,57,"PERSON"],[54,57,"PERSON"],[54,57,"PERSON"]]}],["out of window, strained his young ears, never a sound came up from the",{"entites":[]}],["gulf.",{"entites":[]}],["'Five hundred--a thousand rupees could not buy them,' he thought",{"entites":[]}],["sorrowfully. 'It was verree wasteful, but I have all their other",{"entites":[]}],["stuff--everything they did--I hope. Now how the deuce am I to tell",{"entites":[]}],["Hurree Babu, and whatt the deuce am I to do? And my old man is sick. I",{"entites":[[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"]]}],["must tie up the letters in oilcloth. That is something to do first--else",{"entites":[]}],["they will get all sweated. . . . And I am all alone!' He bound them into",{"entites":[]}],["a neat packet, swedging down the stiff, sticky oilcloth at the corners,",{"entites":[]}],["for his roving life had made him as methodical as an old hunter in",{"entites":[]}],["matters of the road. Then with double care he packed away the books at",{"entites":[]}],["the bottom of the food-bag.",{"entites":[]}],["The woman rapped at the door.",{"entites":[]}],["'But thou hast made no charm,' she said, looking about.",{"entites":[]}],["'There is no need.' Kim had completely overlooked the necessity for a",{"entites":[[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"],[20,23,"PERSON"]]}],["little patter-talk. The woman laughed at his confusion irreverently.",{"entites":[]}],["'None--for thee. Thou canst cast a spell by the mere winking of an eye.",{"entites":[]}],["But think of us poor people when thou art gone! They were all too drunk",{"entites":[]}],["last night to hear a woman. Thou art not drunk?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I am a priest.' Kim had recovered himself, and, the woman being aught",{"entites":[[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"],[17,20,"PERSON"]]}],["but unlovely, thought best to stand on his office.",{"entites":[]}],["'I warned them that the Sahibs will be angry and will make an",{"entites":[]}],["inquisition and a report to the Rajah. There is also the Babu with them.",{"entites":[[57,61,"PERSON"],[57,61,"PERSON"],[57,61,"PERSON"]]}],["Clerks have long tongues.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Is that all thy trouble?' The plan rose fully formed in Kim's mind, and",{"entites":[[57,60,"PERSON"],[57,60,"PERSON"],[57,60,"PERSON"]]}],["he smiled ravishingly.",{"entites":[]}],["'Not all,' quoth the woman, putting out a hard brown hand all covered",{"entites":[]}],["with turquoises set in silver.",{"entites":[]}],["'I can finish that in a breath,' he went on quickly. 'The Babu is the",{"entites":[[58,62,"PERSON"],[58,62,"PERSON"],[58,62,"PERSON"]]}],["very hakim (thou hast heard of him?) who was wandering among the hills",{"entites":[]}],["by Ziglaur. I know him.'",{"entites":[[3,10,"PERSON"],[3,10,"PERSON"],[3,10,"PERSON"]]}],["'He will tell for the sake of a reward. Sahibs cannot distinguish one",{"entites":[]}],["hillman from another, but Babus have eyes for men--and women.'",{"entites":[[26,31,"PERSON"],[26,31,"PERSON"],[26,31,"PERSON"]]}],["'Carry a word to him from me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'There is nothing I would not do for thee.'",{"entites":[]}],["He accepted the compliment calmly, as men must in lands where women make",{"entites":[]}],["the love, tore a leaf from a note-book, and with a patent indelible",{"entites":[]}],["pencil wrote in gross Shikast--the script that bad little boys use when",{"entites":[]}],["they write dirt on walls: 'I have everything that they have written:",{"entites":[]}],["their pictures of the country, and many letters. Especially the murasla.",{"entites":[]}],["Tell me what to do. I am at Shamlegh-under-the-Snow. The old man is",{"entites":[[28,51,"LOC"],[28,51,"LOC"],[28,51,"LOC"]]}],["sick.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Take this to him. It will altogether shut his mouth. He cannot have",{"entites":[]}],["gone far.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Indeed no. They are still in the forest across the spur. Our children",{"entites":[]}],["went to watch them when the light came, and have cried the news as they",{"entites":[]}],["moved.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim looked his astonishment; but from the edge of the sheep-pasture",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["floated a shrill, kite-like trill. A child tending cattle had picked it",{"entites":[]}],["up from a brother or sister on the far side of the slope that commanded",{"entites":[]}],["Chini valley.",{"entites":[[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"],[0,5,"PERSON"]]}],["'My husbands are also out there gathering wood.' She drew a handful of",{"entites":[]}],["walnuts from her bosom, split one neatly, and began to eat. Kim affected",{"entites":[[60,63,"PERSON"],[60,63,"PERSON"],[60,63,"PERSON"]]}],["blank ignorance.",{"entites":[]}],["'Dost thou not know the meaning of the walnut--priest?' she said coyly,",{"entites":[]}],["and handed him the half-shells.",{"entites":[]}],["'Well thought of.' He slipped the piece of paper between them quickly.",{"entites":[]}],["'Hast thou a little wax to close them on this letter?'",{"entites":[[1,5,"PERSON"],[1,5,"PERSON"]]}],["The woman sighed aloud, and Kim relented.",{"entites":[[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"]]}],["'There is no payment till service has been rendered. Carry this to the",{"entites":[]}],["Babu, and say it was sent by the Son of the Charm.'",{"entites":[[0,4,"PERSON"],[0,4,"PERSON"],[0,4,"PERSON"]]}],["'Ai! Truly! Truly! By a magician--who is like a Sahib.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay, Son of the Charm: and ask if there be any answer.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But if he offer a rudeness? I--I am afraid.'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim laughed. 'He is, I have no doubt, very tired and very hungry. The",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["Hills make cold bedfellows. Hai, my'--it was on the tip of his tongue to",{"entites":[[28,31,"PERSON"],[28,31,"PERSON"],[0,5,"LOC"],[28,31,"PERSON"]]}],["say Mother, but he turned it to Sister--'thou art a wise and witty",{"entites":[]}],["woman. By this time all the villages know what has befallen the",{"entites":[]}],["Sahibs--eh?'",{"entites":[]}],["'True. News was at Ziglaur by midnight, and by to-morrow should be at",{"entites":[[19,26,"LOC"],[19,26,"LOC"],[19,26,"LOC"]]}],["Kotgarh. The villages are both afraid and angry.'",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["'No need. Tell the villages to feed the Sahibs and pass them on, in",{"entites":[[40,46,"LOC"],[40,46,"LOC"],[40,46,"LOC"]]}],["peace. We must get them quietly away from our valleys. To steal is one",{"entites":[]}],["thing--to kill another. The Babu will understand, and there will be no",{"entites":[[28,32,"PERSON"],[28,32,"PERSON"],[28,32,"PERSON"]]}],["after-complaints. Be swift. I must tend my master when he wakes.'",{"entites":[]}],["'So be it. After service--thou hast said?--comes the reward. I am the",{"entites":[[61,87,"PERSON"],[61,87,"PERSON"],[61,87,"PERSON"]]}],["Woman of Shamlegh, and I hold from the Rajah. I am no common bearer of",{"entites":[]}],["babes. Shamlegh is thine: hoof and horn and hide, milk and butter. Take",{"entites":[]}],["or leave.'",{"entites":[]}],["She turned resolutely uphill, her silver necklaces clicking on her broad",{"entites":[]}],["breast, to meet the morning sun fifteen hundred feet above them. This",{"entites":[]}],["time Kim thought in the vernacular as he waxed down the oilskin edges of",{"entites":[[5,8,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"],[5,8,"PERSON"]]}],["the packets.",{"entites":[]}],["'How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when he is eternally",{"entites":[]}],["pestered by women? There was that girl at Akrola by the Ford; and there",{"entites":[[42,48,"LOC"],[42,48,"LOC"],[42,48,"LOC"]]}],["was the scullion's wife behind the dovecot--not counting the others--and",{"entites":[]}],["now comes this one! When I was a child it was well enough, but now I am",{"entites":[]}],["a man and they will not regard me as a man. Walnuts indeed! Ho! ho! It",{"entites":[[60,62,"PERSON"],[60,62,"PERSON"],[60,62,"PERSON"]]}],["is almonds in the Plains!'",{"entites":[]}],["He went out to levy on the village--not with a begging-bowl, which might",{"entites":[]}],["do for down-country, but in the manner of a prince. Shamlegh's summer",{"entites":[[52,60,"PERSON"],[52,60,"PERSON"],[52,60,"PERSON"]]}],["population is only three families--four women and eight or nine men.",{"entites":[]}],["They were all full of tinned meats and mixed drinks, from ammoniated",{"entites":[]}],["quinine to white vodka, for they had taken their full share in the",{"entites":[]}],["overnight loot. The neat Continental tents had been cut up and shared",{"entites":[]}],["long ago, and there were patent aluminum saucepans abroad.",{"entites":[]}],["But they considered the lama's presence a perfect safeguard against all",{"entites":[]}],["consequences, and impenitently brought Kim of their best--even to a",{"entites":[[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"],[39,42,"PERSON"]]}],["drink of chang--the barley-beer that comes from Ladakh-way. Then they",{"entites":[]}],["thawed out in the sun, and sat with their legs hanging over infinite",{"entites":[]}],["abysses, chattering, laughing, and smoking. They judged India and its",{"entites":[[56,61,"LOC"],[56,61,"LOC"],[56,61,"LOC"]]}],["Government solely from their experience of wandering Sahibs who had",{"entites":[]}],["employed them or their friends as shikarris. Kim heard tales of shots",{"entites":[[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"],[45,48,"PERSON"]]}],["missed upon ibex, serow, or markhor, by Sahibs twenty years in their",{"entites":[[40,46,"PERSON"],[40,46,"PERSON"],[40,46,"PERSON"]]}],["graves--every detail lighted from behind like twigs on tree-tops seen",{"entites":[]}],["against lightning. They told him of their little diseases, and, more",{"entites":[]}],["important, the diseases of their tiny, sure-footed cattle; of trips as",{"entites":[]}],["far as Kotgarh, where the strange missionaries live, and beyond even to",{"entites":[[7,14,"LOC"],[7,14,"LOC"],[7,14,"LOC"]]}],["marvellous Simla, where the streets are paved with silver, and any one,",{"entites":[]}],["look you, can get service with the Sahibs, who ride about in two-wheeled",{"entites":[[35,41,"PERSON"],[35,41,"PERSON"],[35,41,"PERSON"]]}],["carts and spend money with a spade. Presently, grave and aloof, walking",{"entites":[]}],["very heavily, the lama joined himself to the chatter under the eaves,",{"entites":[]}],["and they gave him great room. The thin air refreshed him, and he sat on",{"entites":[]}],["the edge of precipices with the best of them, and, when talk languished,",{"entites":[]}],["flung pebbles into the void. Thirty miles away, as the eagle flies, lay",{"entites":[]}],["the next range, seamed and channelled and pitted with little patches of",{"entites":[]}],["brush--forests, each a day's dark march. Behind the village, Shamlegh",{"entites":[[61,69,"LOC"],[61,69,"LOC"],[61,69,"LOC"]]}],["hill itself cut off all view to southward. It was like sitting in a",{"entites":[]}],["swallow's nest under the eaves of the roof of the world.",{"entites":[]}],["From time to time the lama stretched out his hand, and with a little,",{"entites":[]}],["low-voiced prompting would point out the road to Spiti and north across",{"entites":[[49,54,"LOC"],[49,54,"LOC"],[49,54,"LOC"]]}],["the Parungla.",{"entites":[[4,12,"LOC"],[4,12,"LOC"],[4,12,"LOC"]]}],["'Beyond, where the hills lie thickest, lies De-ch'en' (he meant Han-le),",{"entites":[]}],["'the great Monastery. s'Tag-stanras-ch'en built it, and of him there",{"entites":[]}],["runs this tale.' 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He has acquired merit, though the healed employed his",{"entites":[]}],["strength for evil. Just is the Wheel! What of the hakim?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I feared that thou hadst been bruised and--and I knew he was wise.' Kim",{"entites":[[69,72,"PERSON"],[69,72,"PERSON"],[69,72,"PERSON"]]}],["took the waxed walnut-shell and read in English on the back of his note:",{"entites":[[40,47,"LOC"],[40,47,"LOC"],[40,47,"LOC"]]}],["'Your favour received. Cannot get away from present company at present,",{"entites":[]}],["but shall take them into Simla. After which, hope to rejoin you.",{"entites":[[25,30,"LOC"],[25,30,"LOC"],[25,30,"LOC"]]}],["Inexpedient to follow angry gentlemen. Return by same road you came, and",{"entites":[]}],["will overtake. Highly gratified about correspondence due to my",{"entites":[]}],["forethought.' 'He says, Holy One, that he will escape from the",{"entites":[]}],["idolaters, and will return to us. Shall we wait awhile at Shamlegh,",{"entites":[[58,66,"LOC"],[58,66,"LOC"],[58,66,"LOC"]]}],["then?'",{"entites":[]}],["The lama looked long and lovingly upon the hills and shook his head.",{"entites":[]}],["'That may not be, chela. From my bones outward I do desire it, but it is",{"entites":[]}],["forbidden. I have seen the Cause of Things.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Why? When the Hills give thee back thy strength day by day? Remember we",{"entites":[[15,20,"LOC"]]}],["were weak and fainting down below there in the Doon.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I became strong to do evil and to forget. A brawler and a swashbuckler",{"entites":[]}],["upon the hillsides was I.' Kim bit back a smile. 'Just and perfect is",{"entites":[[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"],[27,30,"PERSON"]]}],["the Wheel, swerving not a hair. 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Next day one said: \"We go out to",{"entites":[[26,28,"LOC"],[26,28,"LOC"],[26,28,"LOC"]]}],["fight Sangor Gutok down the valley to discover (mark again how Lust is",{"entites":[[6,18,"PERSON"],[6,18,"PERSON"],[6,18,"PERSON"]]}],["tied to Anger!) which abbot shall bear rule in the valley, and take the",{"entites":[]}],["profit of the prayers they print at Sangor Gutok.\" I went, and we fought",{"entites":[[36,48,"LOC"],[36,48,"LOC"],[36,48,"LOC"]]}],["a day.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But how, Holy One?'",{"entites":[]}],["'With our long pencases as I could have shown. . . . I say, we fought",{"entites":[]}],["under the poplars, both abbots and all the monks, and one laid open my",{"entites":[]}],["forehead to the bone. See!' He tilted back his cap and showed a puckered",{"entites":[]}],["silvery scar. 'Just and perfect is the Wheel! 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May I be thy sacrifice!'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim was genuinely distressed at the old man's sorrow, and Mahbub Ali's",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[58,68,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[58,68,"PERSON"],[58,68,"PERSON"]]}],["phrase slipped out unawares.",{"entites":[]}],["'In the dawn,' he went on more gravely, ready rosary clicking between",{"entites":[]}],["the slow sentences, 'came enlightenment. It is here. . . . I am an old",{"entites":[]}],["man . . . hill-bred, hill-fed, never to sit down among my Hills. Three",{"entites":[]}],["years I travelled through Hind, but--can earth be stronger than Mother",{"entites":[[26,30,"LOC"],[26,30,"LOC"],[26,30,"LOC"]]}],["Earth? My stupid body yearned to the Hills and the snow of the Hills,",{"entites":[[63,68,"LOC"],[63,68,"LOC"],[63,68,"LOC"],[37,42,"LOC"],[37,42,"LOC"],[37,42,"LOC"]]}],["from below there. I said, and it is true, my Search is sure. 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Thou canst not choose Freedom and go",{"entites":[[11,16,"LOC"]]}],["in bondage to the delight of life.\"'",{"entites":[]}],["'If we had never met that thrice-cursed Russian!'",{"entites":[[40,47,"LOC"],[40,47,"LOC"],[40,47,"LOC"]]}],["'Our Lord Himself cannot make the Wheel swing backward. And for my merit",{"entites":[]}],["that I had acquired I gain yet another sign.' He put his hand in his",{"entites":[]}],["bosom, and drew forth the Wheel of Life. 'Look! I considered this after",{"entites":[]}],["I had meditated. There remains untorn by the idolater no more than the",{"entites":[]}],["breadth of my finger-nail.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I see.'",{"entites":[]}],["'So much, then, is the span of my life in this body. I have served the",{"entites":[]}],["Wheel all my days. Now the Wheel serves me. But for the merit I have",{"entites":[]}],["acquired in guiding thee upon the Way, there would have been added to me",{"entites":[]}],["yet another life ere I had found my River. Is it plain, chela?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim stared at the brutally disfigured chart. From left to right",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["diagonally the rent ran--from the Eleventh House where Desire gives",{"entites":[]}],["birth to the Child (as it is drawn by Tibetans)--across the human and",{"entites":[]}],["animal worlds, to the Fifth House--the empty House of the Senses. The",{"entites":[]}],["logic was unanswerable.",{"entites":[]}],["'Before our Lord won enlightenment,' the lama folded all away with",{"entites":[]}],["reverence, 'He was tempted. I too have been tempted, but it is finished.",{"entites":[]}],["The Arrow fell in the Plains--not in the Hills. Therefore, what make we",{"entites":[]}],["here?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Shall we at least wait for the hakim?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I know how long I live in this body. What can a hakim do?'",{"entites":[]}],["'But thou art all sick and shaken. 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Thy work?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim nodded, with a bright eye.",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'I spoke to the Bengali first--and to the people of a nearby village",{"entites":[]}],["after. The Sahibs will be given food as they need it--nor will the",{"entites":[]}],["people ask money. The plunder is already distributed. That Babu makes",{"entites":[[59,63,"PERSON"],[59,63,"PERSON"],[59,63,"PERSON"]]}],["lying speeches to the Sahibs. Why does he not leave them?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Out of the greatness of his heart.'",{"entites":[]}],["''Was never a Bengali yet had one bigger than a dried walnut. But it is",{"entites":[]}],["no matter. . . . Now as to walnuts. After service comes reward. I have",{"entites":[]}],["said the village is thine.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is my loss,' Kim began. 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Laughest thou?",{"entites":[]}],["Once, long ago, if thou canst believe, a Sahib looked on me with favour.",{"entites":[]}],["Once, long ago, I wore European clothes at the Mission-house yonder.'",{"entites":[[23,31,"LOC"],[23,31,"LOC"],[23,31,"LOC"]]}],["She pointed towards Kotgarh. 'Once, long ago, I was Ker-lis-ti-an and",{"entites":[[20,27,"PERSON"],[20,27,"PERSON"],[20,27,"PERSON"]]}],["spoke English--as the Sahibs speak it. Yes. My Sahib said he would",{"entites":[[47,52,"PERSON"],[6,13,"LOC"],[6,13,"LOC"],[47,52,"PERSON"],[6,13,"LOC"],[47,52,"PERSON"]]}],["return and wed me--yes, wed me. He went away--I had nursed him when he",{"entites":[]}],["was sick--but he never returned. Then I saw that the Gods of the",{"entites":[]}],["Kerlistians lied, and I went back to my own people. . . . I have never",{"entites":[]}],["set eyes on a Sahib since. (Do not laugh at me. The fit is past, little",{"entites":[]}],["priestling.) Thy face and thy walk and thy fashion of speech put me in",{"entites":[]}],["mind of my Sahib, though thou art only a wandering mendicant to whom I",{"entites":[[11,16,"PERSON"],[11,16,"PERSON"],[11,16,"PERSON"]]}],["give a dole. Curse me? Thou canst neither curse nor bless!' She set her",{"entites":[]}],["hands on her hips and laughed bitterly. 'Thy Gods are lies; thy works",{"entites":[]}],["are lies; thy words are lies. There are no Gods under all the heavens. I",{"entites":[]}],["know it. . . . But for a while I thought it was my Sahib come back, and",{"entites":[[51,56,"PERSON"],[51,56,"PERSON"],[51,56,"PERSON"]]}],["he was my God. Yes, once I made music on a pianno in the Mission-house",{"entites":[]}],["at Kotgarh. Now I give alms to priests who are heatthen.' 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It is the mountain-sickness. I too am a little sick",{"entites":[]}],["at stomach,' . . . and he knelt and comforted with such poor words as",{"entites":[]}],["came first to his lips. Then the woman returned, more erect than ever.",{"entites":[]}],["'Thy Gods useless, heh? Try mine. I am the Woman of Shamlegh.' She",{"entites":[[34,60,"PERSON"],[34,60,"PERSON"],[34,60,"PERSON"]]}],["hailed hoarsely, and there came out of a cow-pen her two husbands and",{"entites":[]}],["three others with a dooli, the rude native litter of the Hills, that",{"entites":[[57,62,"LOC"],[57,62,"LOC"],[57,62,"LOC"]]}],["they use for carrying the sick and for visits of state. 'These cattle,'",{"entites":[]}],["she did not condescend to look at them, 'are thine for so long as thou",{"entites":[]}],["shalt need.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But we will not go Simla-way. 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Shall I show thee how the Sahibs render thanks?'",{"entites":[]}],["and her hard eyes softened.",{"entites":[]}],["'I am but a wandering priest,' said Kim, his eyes lighting in answer.",{"entites":[[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"],[36,39,"PERSON"]]}],["'Thou needest neither my blessings nor my curses.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Nay. 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At least she did not treat me like a",{"entites":[]}],["child.' He hitched the front of his robe, where lay the slab of",{"entites":[]}],["documents and maps, restowed the precious food-bag at the lama's feet,",{"entites":[]}],["laid his hand on the litter edge, and buckled down to the slow pace of",{"entites":[]}],["the grunting husbands.",{"entites":[]}],["'These also acquire merit,' said the lama, after three miles.",{"entites":[]}],["'More than that, they shall be paid in silver,' quoth Kim. 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But that",{"entites":[]}],["renegade, with a new Mannlicher rifle and two hundred cartridges, is",{"entites":[]}],["elsewhere, shooting musk-deer for the market, and Yankling Sahib will",{"entites":[]}],["learn next season how very ill he has been.",{"entites":[]}],["Up the valleys of Bushahr--the far-beholding eagles of the Himalayas",{"entites":[[59,68,"LOC"],[59,68,"LOC"],[59,68,"LOC"]]}],["swerve at his new blue-and-white gored umbrella--hurries a Bengali, once",{"entites":[]}],["fat and well-looking, now lean and weather-worn. He has received the",{"entites":[]}],["thanks of two foreigners of distinction, piloted not unskillfully to",{"entites":[]}],["Mashobra tunnel which leads to the great and gay capital of India. It",{"entites":[[60,65,"LOC"],[0,8,"LOC"],[60,65,"LOC"],[0,8,"LOC"],[0,8,"LOC"],[60,65,"LOC"]]}],["was not his fault that, blanketed by wet mists, he conveyed them past",{"entites":[]}],["the telegraph-station and European colony of Kotgarh. 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The Babu groans heavily,",{"entites":[[22,29,"PERSON"],[22,29,"PERSON"],[47,51,"PERSON"],[22,29,"PERSON"],[47,51,"PERSON"]]}],["girds up his huge loins, and is off again. He does not care to travel",{"entites":[]}],["after dusk; but his days' marches--there is none to enter them in a",{"entites":[]}],["book--would astonish folk who mock at his race. Kindly villagers,",{"entites":[]}],["remembering the Dacca drug-vendor of two months ago, give him shelter",{"entites":[[16,21,"LOC"],[16,21,"LOC"],[16,21,"LOC"]]}],["against evil spirits of the wood. He dreams of Bengali Gods, University",{"entites":[]}],["text-books of education, and the Royal Society, London, England. Next",{"entites":[[56,63,"LOC"],[48,54,"LOC"],[56,63,"LOC"],[48,54,"LOC"],[56,63,"LOC"],[48,54,"LOC"]]}],["dawn the bobbing blue-and-white umbrella goes forward.",{"entites":[]}],["On the edge of the Doon, Mussoorie well behind them and the Plains",{"entites":[[25,34,"LOC"],[25,34,"LOC"],[25,34,"LOC"]]}],["spread out in golden dust before, rests a worn litter in which--all the",{"entites":[]}],["Hills know it--lies a sick lama who seeks a River for his healing.",{"entites":[[0,5,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"],[0,5,"LOC"]]}],["Villages have almost come to blows over the honour of bearing it, for",{"entites":[]}],["not only has the lama given them blessings, but his disciple good",{"entites":[]}],["money--full one-third Sahibs' prices. Twelve miles a day has the dooli",{"entites":[[22,28,"PERSON"],[22,28,"PERSON"],[22,28,"PERSON"]]}],["travelled, as the greasy, rubbed pole-ends show, and by roads that few",{"entites":[]}],["Sahibs use. 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But the bag weighs heavy.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay, our Search is sure. I have come out of great temptation.'",{"entites":[]}],["       *       *       *       *       *",{"entites":[]}],["It was never more than a couple of miles a day now, and Kim's shoulders",{"entites":[[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"],[56,59,"PERSON"]]}],["bore all the weight of it--the burden of an old man, the burden of the",{"entites":[]}],["heavy food-bag with the locked books, the load of the writings on his",{"entites":[]}],["heart, and the details of the daily routine. 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It vexes me. I am not a",{"entites":[]}],["Sahib. I am thy chela, and my head is heavy on my shoulders.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Patience a little! We reach Freedom together. Then thou and I, upon",{"entites":[]}],["the far bank of the River, will look back upon our lives as in the Hills",{"entites":[[67,72,"LOC"],[67,72,"LOC"],[67,72,"LOC"]]}],["we saw our days' marches laid out behind us. Perhaps I was once a",{"entites":[]}],["Sahib.'",{"entites":[]}],["''Was never a Sahib like thee, I swear it.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I am certain the Keeper of the Images in the Wonder House was in past",{"entites":[]}],["life a very wise abbot. But even his spectacles do not make my eyes see.",{"entites":[]}],["There fall shadows when I would look steadily. No matter--we know the",{"entites":[]}],["tricks of the poor stupid carcass--shadow changing to another shadow. I",{"entites":[]}],["am bound by the illusion of Time and Space. 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Day by day since Shamlegh down, I have stolen strength from thee.",{"entites":[[23,31,"PERSON"],[23,31,"PERSON"],[23,31,"PERSON"]]}],["Therefore, not through any sin of thine art thou weakened. It is the",{"entites":[]}],["Body--the silly, stupid Body--that speaks now. Not the assured Soul. Be",{"entites":[]}],["comforted! Know at least the devils that thou fightest. They are",{"entites":[]}],["earth-born--children of illusion. We will go to the woman from Kulu. She",{"entites":[[63,67,"LOC"],[63,67,"LOC"],[63,67,"LOC"]]}],["shall acquire merit in housing us, and specially in tending me. Thou",{"entites":[]}],["shalt run free till strength returns. I had forgotten the stupid Body.",{"entites":[]}],["If there be any blame, I bear it. But we are too close to the Gates of",{"entites":[]}],["Deliverance to weigh blame. I could praise thee, but what need? In a",{"entites":[]}],["little--in a very little--we shall sit beyond all needs.'",{"entites":[]}],["And so he petted and comforted Kim with wise saws and grave texts on",{"entites":[[31,34,"PERSON"],[31,34,"PERSON"],[31,34,"PERSON"]]}],["that little-understood beast, our Body, who, being but a delusion,",{"entites":[]}],["insists on posing as the Soul, to the darkening of the Way, and the",{"entites":[]}],["immense multiplication of unnecessary devils.",{"entites":[]}],["'Hai! hai! Let us talk of the woman from Kulu. Think you she will ask",{"entites":[[41,45,"LOC"],[41,45,"LOC"],[41,45,"LOC"],[1,4,"PERSON"],[1,4,"PERSON"]]}],["another charm for her grandsons? When I was a young man, a very long",{"entites":[]}],["time ago, I was plagued with these vapours--and some others--and I went",{"entites":[]}],["to an abbot--a very holy man and a seeker after truth, though then I",{"entites":[]}],["knew it not. Sit up and listen, child of my soul! My tale was told. 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Look at",{"entites":[]}],["his eyes--hollow and sunk--and the Betraying Line from the nose down! He",{"entites":[]}],["has been sifted out! Fie! Fie! And a priest, too!'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim looked up over-weary to smile, shaking his head in denial.",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["'Do not jest,' said the lama. 'That time is done. We are here upon great",{"entites":[]}],["matters. A sickness of soul took me in the Hills, and him a sickness of",{"entites":[[43,48,"LOC"],[43,48,"LOC"],[43,48,"LOC"]]}],["the body. Since then I have lived upon his strength--eating him.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Children together--young and old,' she sniffed, but forbore to make any",{"entites":[]}],["new jokes. 'May this present hospitality restore ye. 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'Stands now we must restore him.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Thou hast many times acquired merit--'",{"entites":[]}],["'My merit. What is it? Old bag of bones making curries for men who do",{"entites":[]}],["not ask \"Who cooked this?\" Now if it were stored up for my grandson--'",{"entites":[]}],["'He that had the belly-pain?'",{"entites":[]}],["'To think the Holy One remembers that! I must tell his mother. It is",{"entites":[]}],["most singular honour! \"He that had the belly-pain\"--straightway the Holy",{"entites":[]}],["One remembered. She will be proud.'",{"entites":[]}],["'My chela is to me as a son to the unenlightened.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Say grandson, rather. Mothers have not the wisdom of our years. If a",{"entites":[]}],["child cries they say the heavens are falling. Now a grandmother is far",{"entites":[]}],["enough separated from the pain of bearing and the pleasure of giving the",{"entites":[]}],["breast to consider whether a cry is wickedness pure or the wind. 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Hee!",{"entites":[[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"],[63,66,"PERSON"]]}],["hee!'",{"entites":[]}],["'But as he who sleeps there said,' he nodded at the shut door of the",{"entites":[]}],["guest-chamber across the forecourt, 'thou hast a heart of gold. . . .",{"entites":[]}],["And he is in the spirit my very \"grandson\" to me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Good! I am the Holy One's cow.' This was pure Hinduism, but the lama",{"entites":[[7,24,"PERSON"],[7,24,"PERSON"],[7,24,"PERSON"]]}],["never heeded. 'I am old. I have borne sons in the body. Oh, once I could",{"entites":[]}],["please men! Now I can cure them.' He heard her armlets tinkle as though",{"entites":[]}],["she bared arms for action. 'I will take over the boy and dose him, and",{"entites":[]}],["stuff him, and make him all whole. Hai! hai! We old people know",{"entites":[[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"]]}],["something yet.'",{"entites":[]}],["Wherefore when Kim, aching in every bone, opened his eyes, and would go",{"entites":[[15,18,"PERSON"],[15,18,"PERSON"],[15,18,"PERSON"]]}],["to the cook-house to get his master's food, he found strong coercion",{"entites":[]}],["about him, and a veiled old figure at the door, flanked by the grizzled",{"entites":[]}],["manservant, who told him precisely the very things that he was on no",{"entites":[]}],["account to do.",{"entites":[]}],["'Thou must have? Thou shalt have nothing. What? A locked box in which to",{"entites":[]}],["keep holy books? Oh, that is another matter. Heavens forbid I should",{"entites":[]}],["come between a priest and his prayers! It shall be brought, and thou",{"entites":[]}],["shalt keep the key.'",{"entites":[]}],["They pushed the coffer under his cot, and Kim shut away Mahbub's pistol,",{"entites":[[56,62,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"],[56,62,"PERSON"],[56,62,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"],[42,45,"PERSON"]]}],["the oilskin packet of letters, and the locked books and diaries, with a",{"entites":[]}],["groan of relief. For some absurd reason their weight on his shoulders",{"entites":[]}],["was nothing to their weight on his poor mind. His neck ached under it of",{"entites":[]}],["nights.",{"entites":[]}],["'Thine is a sickness uncommon in youth these days: since young folk have",{"entites":[]}],["given up tending their betters. 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Mine was but a jest.",{"entites":[]}],["If it does not hold good now, it will when thou takest the road again.",{"entites":[]}],["Cousin'--this to the poor relation, never wearied of extolling her",{"entites":[]}],["patroness's charity--'he is getting a bloom on the skin of a new-curried",{"entites":[]}],["horse. Our work is like polishing jewels to be thrown to a",{"entites":[]}],["dance-girl--eh?'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim sat up and smiled. The terrible weakness had dropped from him like",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["an old shoe. His tongue itched for free speech again, and but a week",{"entites":[]}],["back the lightest word clogged it like ashes. The pain in his neck (he",{"entites":[]}],["must have caught it from the lama) had gone with the heavy dengue-aches",{"entites":[]}],["and the evil taste in the mouth. 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I could have told him that",{"entites":[]}],["before he wetted himself all over. He is well now--this happened a week",{"entites":[]}],["ago--but burn me such holiness! A babe of three would do better! Do not",{"entites":[]}],["fret thyself for the Holy One. He keeps both eyes on thee when he is not",{"entites":[]}],["wading our brooks.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I do not remember to have seen him. I remember that the days and nights",{"entites":[]}],["passed like bars of white and black, opening and shutting. I was not",{"entites":[]}],["sick: I was only tired.'",{"entites":[]}],["'A lethargy that comes by right some few score years later. But it is",{"entites":[]}],["all done now.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Maharanee,' Kim began, but led by the look in her eye, changed it to",{"entites":[[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"],[13,16,"PERSON"]]}],["the title of plain love--'Mother, I owe my life to thee. How shall I",{"entites":[]}],["make thanks? Ten thousand blessings upon thy house and--'",{"entites":[]}],["'The house be unblessed.' (It is impossible to give exactly the old",{"entites":[]}],["lady's word.) 'Thank the Gods as a priest if thou wilt, but thank me if",{"entites":[]}],["thou carest as a son. Heavens above! Have I shifted thee and lifted thee",{"entites":[]}],["and slapped and twisted thy ten toes to find texts flung at my head?",{"entites":[]}],["Somewhere a mother must have borne thee to break her heart. What used",{"entites":[]}],["thou to her--son?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I had no mother, my mother,' said Kim. 'She died, they tell me, when I",{"entites":[[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"],[35,38,"PERSON"]]}],["was young.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Hai mai! Then none can say I have robbed her of any right if--when thou",{"entites":[[1,8,"PERSON"],[1,8,"PERSON"]]}],["takest the road again and this house is but one of a thousand used for",{"entites":[]}],["shelter and forgotten, after an easy-flung blessing. No matter. I need",{"entites":[]}],["no blessings, but--but--' She stamped her foot at the poor relation:",{"entites":[]}],["'Take up the trays to the house. What is the good of stale food in the",{"entites":[]}],["room, oh woman of ill-omen?'",{"entites":[]}],["'I ha--have borne a son in my time too, but he died,' whimpered the",{"entites":[]}],["bowed sister-figure behind the chudder. 'Thou knowest he died! I only",{"entites":[]}],["waited for the order to take away the tray.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is I that am the woman of ill-omen,' cried the old lady penitently.",{"entites":[]}],["'We that go down to the chattris (the big umbrellas above the",{"entites":[]}],["burning-ghats where the priests take their last dues) clutch hard at the",{"entites":[]}],["bearers of the chattis (water-jars--young folk full of the pride of",{"entites":[]}],["life, she meant; but the pun is clumsy). 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He was very thin and hungry, so I gave orders to have him",{"entites":[]}],["stuffed too--him and his anxiety!'",{"entites":[]}],["'I would see him if he is here.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He eats five times a day, and lances boils for my hinds to save himself",{"entites":[]}],["from an apoplexy. He is so full of anxiety for thy health that he sticks",{"entites":[]}],["to the cook-house door and stays himself with scraps. He will keep. We",{"entites":[]}],["shall never get rid of him.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Send him here, mother'--the twinkle returned to Kim's eye for a",{"entites":[[49,52,"PERSON"],[49,52,"PERSON"],[49,52,"PERSON"]]}],["flash--'and I will try.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I'll send him, but to chase him off is an ill turn. At least he had the",{"entites":[]}],["sense to fish the Holy One out of the brook; thus, as the Holy One did",{"entites":[]}],["not say, acquiring merit.'",{"entites":[]}],["'He is a very wise hakim. Send him, mother.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Priest praising priest? 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He will",{"entites":[[8,19,"PERSON"],[8,19,"PERSON"],[8,19,"PERSON"]]}],["have to explain offeecially how the deuce-an'-all he is writing",{"entites":[]}],["love-letters to the Czar. And they are very clever maps . . . and there",{"entites":[]}],["is three or four Prime Ministers of these parts implicated by the",{"entites":[]}],["correspondence. By Gad, Sar! The British Government will change the",{"entites":[[33,40,"LOC"],[19,22,"PERSON"],[33,40,"LOC"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[33,40,"LOC"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[24,27,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"],[19,22,"PERSON"]]}],["succession in Hilas and Bunar, and nominate new heirs to the throne.",{"entites":[[14,19,"LOC"],[14,19,"LOC"],[24,29,"LOC"],[24,29,"LOC"],[24,29,"LOC"],[14,19,"LOC"]]}],["\"Treason most base\" . . . but you do not understand? Eh?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Are they in thy hands?' said Kim. It was all he cared for.",{"entites":[[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"],[30,33,"PERSON"]]}],["'Just you jolly well bet yourself they are.' 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I followed him on his meditations, and to discuss",{"entites":[]}],["ethnological points also. You see, I am verree small person here",{"entites":[]}],["nowadays in comparison with all his charms. By Jove, O'Hara, do you",{"entites":[[53,59,"PERSON"],[47,51,"PERSON"],[47,51,"PERSON"],[47,51,"PERSON"],[53,59,"PERSON"],[53,59,"PERSON"]]}],["know, he is afflicted with infirmity of fits. Yess, I tell you.",{"entites":[]}],["Cataleptic, too, if not also epileptic. I found him in such a state",{"entites":[[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"],[0,10,"PERSON"]]}],["under a tree in articulo mortem, and he jumped up and walked into a",{"entites":[]}],["brook and he was nearly drowned but for me. I pulled him out.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Because I was not there!' said Kim. 'He might have died.'",{"entites":[[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"],[32,35,"PERSON"]]}],["'Yes, he might have died, but he is dry now, and asserts he has",{"entites":[]}],["undergone transfiguration.' The Babu tapped his forehead knowingly. 'I",{"entites":[[32,36,"PERSON"],[32,36,"PERSON"],[32,36,"PERSON"]]}],["took notes of his statements for Royal Society--in posse. You must make",{"entites":[]}],["haste and be quite well and come back to Simla, and I will tell you all",{"entites":[[41,46,"LOC"],[41,46,"LOC"],[41,46,"LOC"]]}],["my tale at Lurgan's. It was splendid. The bottoms of their trousers were",{"entites":[[11,17,"LOC"],[11,17,"LOC"],[11,17,"LOC"]]}],["quite torn, and old Nahan Rajah, he thought they were European soldiers",{"entites":[[54,62,"LOC"],[20,31,"PERSON"],[54,62,"LOC"],[20,31,"PERSON"],[54,62,"LOC"],[20,31,"PERSON"]]}],["deserting.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, the Russians? How long were they with thee?'",{"entites":[]}],["'One was a Frenchman. Oh, days and days and days! Now all the",{"entites":[[11,20,"LOC"],[11,20,"LOC"],[11,20,"LOC"]]}],["hill-people believe all Russians are all beggars. By Jove! they had not",{"entites":[[53,57,"PERSON"],[53,57,"PERSON"],[53,57,"PERSON"]]}],["one dam-thing that I did not get them. And I told the common",{"entites":[]}],["people--oah, such tales and anecdotes! I will tell you at old Lurgan's",{"entites":[[62,68,"LOC"],[62,68,"LOC"],[62,68,"LOC"]]}],["when you come up. We will have--ah--a night out! It is feather in both",{"entites":[]}],["our caps! Yess, and they gave me a certificate. That is creaming joke.",{"entites":[]}],["You should have seen them at the Alliance Bank identifying themselves!",{"entites":[]}],["And thank Almighty God you got their papers so well! You do not laugh",{"entites":[]}],["verree much, but you shall laugh when you are well. Now I will go",{"entites":[]}],["straight to the railway and get out. You shall have all sorts of credits",{"entites":[]}],["for your game. When do you come along? We are very proud of you, though",{"entites":[]}],["you gave us great frights. And especially Mahbub.'",{"entites":[[42,48,"PERSON"],[42,48,"PERSON"],[42,48,"PERSON"]]}],["'Ay, Mahbub. And where is he?'",{"entites":[[5,11,"PERSON"],[5,11,"PERSON"],[5,11,"PERSON"]]}],["'Selling horses in this vi-cinity, of course.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Here! Why? Speak slowly. There is a thickness in my head still.'",{"entites":[]}],["The Babu looked shyly down his nose. 'Well, you see, I am fearful man,",{"entites":[[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"],[4,8,"PERSON"]]}],["and I do not like responsibility. You were sick, you see, and I did not",{"entites":[]}],["know where deuce-an'-all the papers were, and if so, how many. So when I",{"entites":[]}],["had come down here I slipped in private wire to Mahbub--he was at",{"entites":[[48,54,"PERSON"],[48,54,"PERSON"],[48,54,"PERSON"]]}],["Meerut for races--and I tell him how case stands. He comes up with his",{"entites":[[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"],[0,6,"LOC"]]}],["men and he consorts with the lama, and then he calls me a fool, and is",{"entites":[]}],["very rude--'",{"entites":[]}],["'But wherefore--wherefore?'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is what I ask. I only suggest that if any one steals the papers I",{"entites":[]}],["should like some good strong, brave men to rob them back again. You see",{"entites":[]}],["they are vitally important, and Mahbub Ali he did not know where you",{"entites":[[32,42,"PERSON"],[32,42,"PERSON"],[32,42,"PERSON"]]}],["were.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Mahbub Ali to rob the Sahiba's house? Thou art mad, Babu,' said Kim",{"entites":[[65,68,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"],[53,57,"PERSON"],[53,57,"PERSON"],[53,57,"PERSON"],[1,11,"PERSON"],[23,29,"PERSON"],[1,11,"PERSON"],[65,68,"PERSON"],[1,11,"PERSON"]]}],["with indignation.",{"entites":[]}],["'I wanted the papers. Suppose she had stole them? It was only practical",{"entites":[]}],["suggestion, I think. You are not pleased, eh?'",{"entites":[]}],["A native proverb--unquotable--showed the blackness of Kim's disapproval.",{"entites":[[54,57,"PERSON"],[54,57,"PERSON"],[54,57,"PERSON"]]}],["'Well,'--Hurree shrugged his shoulders,--'there is no accounting for",{"entites":[[9,15,"PERSON"],[9,15,"PERSON"],[9,15,"PERSON"]]}],["thee taste. Mahbub was angry too. He has sold horses all about here, and",{"entites":[[12,18,"PERSON"],[12,18,"PERSON"],[12,18,"PERSON"]]}],["he says old lady is pukka (thorough) old lady and would not condescend",{"entites":[]}],["to such ungentlemanly things. I do not care. I have got the papers, and",{"entites":[]}],["I was very glad of moral support from Mahbub. I tell you I am fearful",{"entites":[[38,44,"PERSON"],[38,44,"PERSON"],[38,44,"PERSON"]]}],["man, but, somehow or other, the more fearful I am the more dam-tight",{"entites":[]}],["places I get into. So I was glad you came with me to Chini, and I am",{"entites":[[53,58,"PERSON"],[53,58,"PERSON"],[53,58,"PERSON"]]}],["glad Mahbub was close by. The old lady she is sometimes very rude to me",{"entites":[[5,11,"PERSON"],[5,11,"PERSON"],[5,11,"PERSON"]]}],["and my beautiful pills.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Allah be merciful,' said Kim on his elbow, rejoicing. 'What a beast of",{"entites":[[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"]]}],["wonder is a Babu! And that man walked alone--if he did walk--with robbed",{"entites":[[12,16,"PERSON"],[12,16,"PERSON"],[12,16,"PERSON"]]}],["and angry foreigners!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oah, thatt was nothing, after they had done beating me; but if I lost",{"entites":[]}],["the papers it was pretty jolly serious. Mahbub he nearly beat me too,",{"entites":[[40,46,"PERSON"],[40,46,"PERSON"],[40,46,"PERSON"]]}],["and he went and consorted with the lama no end. I shall stick to",{"entites":[]}],["ethnological investigations henceforwards. Now good-bye, Mister O'Hara.",{"entites":[[64,70,"PERSON"],[64,70,"PERSON"],[64,70,"PERSON"]]}],["I can catch 4.25 p. m. to Umballa if I am quick. It will be good times",{"entites":[[26,33,"LOC"],[26,33,"LOC"],[26,33,"LOC"]]}],["when we all tell thee tale up at Mister Lurgan's. I shall report you",{"entites":[[33,39,"LOC"],[40,46,"LOC"],[40,46,"LOC"],[40,46,"LOC"],[33,39,"LOC"],[33,39,"LOC"]]}],["offeecially better. Good-bye, my dear fallow, and when next you are",{"entites":[]}],["under thee emotions please do not use the Mohammedan terms with the",{"entites":[]}],["Tibetan dress.'",{"entites":[]}],["He shook hands twice--a Babu to his boot-heels--and opened the door.",{"entites":[[24,28,"PERSON"],[24,28,"PERSON"],[24,28,"PERSON"]]}],["With the fall of the sunlight upon his still triumphant face he returned",{"entites":[]}],["to the humble Dacca quack.",{"entites":[[14,19,"LOC"],[14,19,"LOC"],[14,19,"LOC"]]}],["'He robbed them,' thought Kim, forgetting his own share in the game. 'He",{"entites":[[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"],[26,29,"PERSON"]]}],["tricked them. He lied to them like a Bengali. They give him a chit (a",{"entites":[]}],["testimonial). He makes them a mock at the risk of his life--I never",{"entites":[]}],["would have gone down to them after the pistol-shots--and then he says he",{"entites":[]}],["is a fearful man. . . . And he is a fearful man. I must get into the world",{"entites":[]}],["again.'",{"entites":[]}],["At first his legs bent like bad pipe-stems, and the flood and rush of",{"entites":[]}],["the sunlit air dazzled him. He squatted by the white wall, the mind",{"entites":[]}],["rummaging among the incidents of the long dooli journey, the lama's",{"entites":[]}],["weaknesses, and, now that the stimulus of talk was removed, his own",{"entites":[]}],["self-pity, of which, like the sick, he had great store. The unnerved",{"entites":[]}],["brain edged away from all the outside, as a raw horse, once rowelled,",{"entites":[]}],["sidles from the spur. It was enough, amply enough, that the spoil of the",{"entites":[]}],["kilta was away--off his hands--out of his possession. He tried to think",{"entites":[]}],["of the lama,--to wonder why he had tumbled into a brook,--but the",{"entites":[]}],["bigness of the world, seen between the forecourt gates, swept linked",{"entites":[]}],["thought aside. Then he looked upon the trees and the broad fields, with",{"entites":[]}],["the thatched huts hidden among crops--looked with strange eyes unable to",{"entites":[]}],["take up the size and proportion and use of things--stared for a still",{"entites":[]}],["half-hour. All that while he felt, though he could not put it into",{"entites":[]}],["words, that his soul was out of gear with its surroundings--a cog-wheel",{"entites":[]}],["unconnected with any machinery, just like the idle cog-wheel of a cheap",{"entites":[]}],["Beheea sugar-crusher laid by in a corner. The breezes fanned over him,",{"entites":[]}],["the parrots shrieked at him, the noises of the populated house",{"entites":[]}],["behind--squabbles, orders, and reproofs--hit on dead ears.",{"entites":[]}],["'I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?' 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He felt it between his toes, patted it with his",{"entites":[]}],["palms, and joint by joint, sighing luxuriously, laid him down full",{"entites":[]}],["length along in the shadow of the wooden-pinned cart. And Mother Earth",{"entites":[]}],["was as faithful as the Sahiba. She breathed through him to restore the",{"entites":[[23,29,"LOC"],[23,29,"LOC"],[23,29,"LOC"]]}],["poise he had lost lying so long on a cot cut off from her good currents.",{"entites":[]}],["His head lay powerless upon her breast, and his opened hands surrendered",{"entites":[]}],["to her strength. The many-rooted tree above him, and even the dead",{"entites":[]}],["man-handled wood beside, knew what he sought, as he himself did not",{"entites":[]}],["know. Hour upon hour he lay deeper than sleep.",{"entites":[]}],["Towards evening, when the dust of returning kine made all the horizons",{"entites":[]}],["smoke, came the lama and Mahbub Ali, both afoot, walking cautiously, for",{"entites":[[25,35,"PERSON"],[25,35,"PERSON"],[25,35,"PERSON"]]}],["the house had told them where he had gone.",{"entites":[]}],["'Allah! What a fool's trick to play in open country,' muttered the",{"entites":[]}],["horse-dealer. 'He could be shot a hundred times--but this is not the",{"entites":[]}],["Border.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And,' said the lama, repeating a many-times-told tale, 'never was such",{"entites":[]}],["a chela. Temperate, kindly, wise, of ungrudging disposition, a merry",{"entites":[]}],["heart upon the road, never forgetting, learned, truthful, courteous.",{"entites":[]}],["Great is his reward!'",{"entites":[]}],["'I know the boy--as I have said.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And he was all those things?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Some of them--but I have not yet found a Red Hat's charm for making him",{"entites":[]}],["overly truthful. He has certainly been well nursed.'",{"entites":[]}],["'The Sahiba is a heart of gold,' said the lama earnestly. 'She looks",{"entites":[]}],["upon him as her son.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Hmph! Half Hind seems that-way disposed. I only wished to see that the",{"entites":[[12,16,"LOC"],[12,16,"LOC"],[12,16,"LOC"]]}],["boy had come to no harm and was a free agent. As thou knowest, he and I",{"entites":[]}],["were old friends in the first days of your pilgrimage together.'",{"entites":[]}],["'That is a bond between us.' The lama sat down. 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But now, Red Hat, what",{"entites":[]}],["is to be done?'",{"entites":[]}],["'This very night,'--the words came slowly, vibrating with",{"entites":[]}],["triumph,--'this very night he will be as free as I am from all taint of",{"entites":[]}],["sin--assured as I am when he quits this body of Freedom from the Wheel",{"entites":[]}],["of Things. I have a sign,' he laid his hand above the torn chart in his",{"entites":[]}],["bosom, 'that my time is short; but I shall have safeguarded him",{"entites":[]}],["throughout the years. Remember, I have reached Knowledge, as I told thee",{"entites":[]}],["only three nights back.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It must be true, as the Tirah priest said when I stole his cousin's",{"entites":[[25,30,"LOC"],[25,30,"LOC"],[25,30,"LOC"]]}],["wife, that I am a sufi (a freethinker); for here I sit,' said Mahbub to",{"entites":[[62,68,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"]]}],["himself, 'drinking in blasphemy unthinkable. . . . I remember the tale.",{"entites":[]}],["On that, then, he goes to Jannatu l'Adn (the Gardens of Eden). But how?",{"entites":[[56,60,"LOC"],[45,55,"LOC"],[45,55,"LOC"],[56,60,"LOC"],[56,60,"LOC"],[45,55,"LOC"]]}],["Wilt thou slay him or drown him in that wonderful river from which the",{"entites":[[0,4,"PERSON"],[0,4,"PERSON"],[0,4,"PERSON"]]}],["Babu dragged thee?'",{"entites":[[0,4,"PERSON"],[0,4,"PERSON"],[0,4,"PERSON"]]}],["'I was dragged from no river,' said the lama simply. 'Thou hast",{"entites":[]}],["forgotten what befell. I found it by knowledge.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh, aye. True,' stammered Mahbub, divided between high indignation and",{"entites":[[27,33,"PERSON"],[27,33,"PERSON"],[27,33,"PERSON"]]}],["enormous mirth. 'I had forgotten the exact run of what happened. Thou",{"entites":[]}],["didst find it knowingly.'",{"entites":[]}],["'And to say that I would take life is---not a sin, but a madness simple.",{"entites":[]}],["My chela aided me to the River. It is his right to be cleansed from",{"entites":[]}],["sin--with me.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Ay, he needs cleansing. But afterwards, old man--afterwards?'",{"entites":[]}],["'What matter under all the heavens? He is sure of",{"entites":[]}],["Nibban--enlightened--as I am.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Well said. I had a fear he might mount Mohammed's Horse and fly away.'",{"entites":[[40,48,"PERSON"],[40,48,"PERSON"],[40,48,"PERSON"]]}],["'Nay--he must go forth as a teacher.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Aha! Now I see! That is the right gait for the colt. Certainly he must",{"entites":[]}],["go forth as a teacher. He is somewhat urgently needed as a scribe by the",{"entites":[]}],["State, for instance.'",{"entites":[]}],["'To that end he was prepared. I acquired merit in that I gave alms for",{"entites":[]}],["his sake. A good deed does not die. He aided me in my Search. I aided",{"entites":[]}],["him in his. Just is the Wheel, O horse-seller from the North. Let him be",{"entites":[]}],["a teacher; let him be a scribe--what matter? He will have attained",{"entites":[]}],["Freedom at the end. The rest is illusion.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What matter? When I must have him with me beyond Balkh in six months! I",{"entites":[[50,55,"LOC"],[50,55,"LOC"],[50,55,"LOC"]]}],["come up with ten lame horses and three strong-backed men--thanks to",{"entites":[]}],["that chicken of a Babu--to break a sick boy by force out of an old",{"entites":[[18,22,"PERSON"],[18,22,"PERSON"],[18,22,"PERSON"]]}],["trot's house. It seems that I stand by while a young Sahib is hoisted",{"entites":[[53,58,"PERSON"],[53,58,"PERSON"],[53,58,"PERSON"]]}],["into Allah knows what of an idolater's heaven by means of old Red Hat.",{"entites":[]}],["And I am reckoned something of a player of the Game myself! But the",{"entites":[]}],["madman is fond of the boy; and I must be very reasonably mad too.'",{"entites":[]}],["'What is the prayer?' said the lama, as the rough Pashtu rumbled into",{"entites":[[50,56,"LOC"],[50,56,"LOC"],[50,56,"LOC"]]}],["the red beard.",{"entites":[]}],["'No matter at all; but now I understand that the boy, sure of Paradise,",{"entites":[]}],["can yet enter Government service, my mind is easier. I must get to my",{"entites":[]}],["horses. It grows dark. Do not wake him. I have no wish to hear him call",{"entites":[]}],["thee master.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But he is my disciple. What else?'",{"entites":[]}],["'He has told me.' Mahbub choked down his touch of spleen and rose",{"entites":[[18,24,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"],[18,24,"PERSON"]]}],["laughing. 'I am not altogether of thy faith, Red Hat--if so small a",{"entites":[]}],["matter concern thee.'",{"entites":[]}],["'It is nothing,' said the lama.",{"entites":[]}],["'I thought not. Therefore it will not move thee sinless, new-washed and",{"entites":[]}],["three parts drowned to boot, when I call thee a good man--a very good",{"entites":[]}],["man. We have talked together some four or five evenings now, and for all",{"entites":[]}],["I am a horse-coper I can still, as the saying is, see holiness beyond",{"entites":[]}],["the legs of a horse. Yea, can see, too, how our Friend of all the World",{"entites":[]}],["put his hand in thine at the first. Use him well, and suffer him to",{"entites":[]}],["return to the world as a teacher, when thou hast--bathed his legs, if",{"entites":[]}],["that be the proper medicine for the colt.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Why not follow the Way thyself, and so accompany the boy?'",{"entites":[]}],["Mahbub stared stupefied at the magnificent insolence of the demand,",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["which across the Border he would have paid with more than a blow. Then",{"entites":[]}],["the humour of it touched his worldly soul.",{"entites":[]}],["'Softly--softly--one foot at a time, as the lame gelding went over the",{"entites":[]}],["Umballa jumps. I may come to Paradise later--I have workings that",{"entites":[[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"],[0,7,"LOC"]]}],["way--great motions--and I owe them to thy simplicity. Thou hast never",{"entites":[]}],["lied?'",{"entites":[]}],["'What need?'",{"entites":[]}],["'O Allah, hear him! \"What need\" in this Thy world! Nor ever harmed a",{"entites":[]}],["man?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Once--with a pencase--before I was wise.'",{"entites":[]}],["'So? I think the better of thee. Thy teachings are good. Thou hast",{"entites":[]}],["turned one man that I know from the path of strife.' He laughed",{"entites":[]}],["immensely. 'He came here open-minded to commit a dacoity (a",{"entites":[]}],["house-robbery with violence). Yes, to cut, rob, kill, and carry off what",{"entites":[]}],["he desired.'",{"entites":[]}],["'A great foolishness!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Oh! black shame too. So he thought after he had seen thee--and a few",{"entites":[]}],["others, male and female. So he abandoned it; and now he goes to beat a",{"entites":[]}],["big fat Babu man.'",{"entites":[[8,12,"PERSON"],[8,12,"PERSON"],[8,12,"PERSON"]]}],["'I do not understand.'",{"entites":[]}],["'Allah forbid it! Some men are strong in knowledge, Red Hat. Thy",{"entites":[]}],["strength is stronger still. Keep it--I think thou wilt. If the boy be",{"entites":[]}],["not a good servant, pull his ears off.'",{"entites":[]}],["With a hitch of his broad Bokhariot belt the Pathan swaggered off into",{"entites":[]}],["the gloaming, and the lama came down from his clouds so far as to look",{"entites":[]}],["at the broad back.",{"entites":[]}],["'That person lacks courtesy, and is deceived by the shadow of",{"entites":[]}],["appearances. But he spoke well of my chela, who now enters upon his",{"entites":[]}],["reward. Let me make the prayer! . . . Wake, O fortunate above all born",{"entites":[]}],["of women. Wake! It is found!'",{"entites":[]}],["Kim came up from those deep wells, and the lama attended his yawning",{"entites":[[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"],[0,3,"PERSON"]]}],["pleasure; duly snapping fingers to head off evil spirits.",{"entites":[]}],["'I have slept a hundred years. Where--? Holy One, hast thou been here",{"entites":[]}],["long? I went out to look for thee, but'--he laughed drowsily--'I slept",{"entites":[]}],["by the way. I am all well now. Hast thou eaten? Let us go to the house.",{"entites":[[31,35,"PERSON"],[31,35,"PERSON"]]}],["It is many days since I tended thee. And the Sahiba fed thee well? Who",{"entites":[[45,51,"LOC"],[45,51,"LOC"],[45,51,"LOC"]]}],["shampooed thy legs? What of the weaknesses--the belly and the neck, and",{"entites":[]}],["the beating in the ears?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Gone--all gone. Dost thou not know?'",{"entites":[[17,21,"PERSON"]]}],["'I know nothing, but that I have not seen thee in a monkey's age. Know",{"entites":[]}],["what?'",{"entites":[]}],["'Strange the knowledge did not reach out to thee, when all my thoughts",{"entites":[]}],["were theeward.'",{"entites":[]}],["'I cannot see the face, but the voice is like a gong. Has the Sahiba",{"entites":[[62,68,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"],[62,68,"PERSON"]]}],["made a young man of thee by her cookery?'",{"entites":[]}],["He peered at the cross-legged figure, outlined jet-black against the",{"entites":[]}],["lemon-coloured drift of light. So does the stone Bodhisat sit who looks",{"entites":[]}],["down upon the patent self-registering turnstiles of the Lahore Museum.",{"entites":[[56,62,"LOC"],[56,62,"LOC"],[63,69,"LOC"],[56,62,"LOC"],[63,69,"LOC"],[63,69,"LOC"]]}],["The lama held his peace. Except for the click of the rosary and a faint",{"entites":[]}],["'clop-clop' of Mahbub's retreating feet, the soft, smoky silence of",{"entites":[[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"]]}],["evening in India wrapped them close.",{"entites":[[11,16,"LOC"],[11,16,"LOC"],[11,16,"LOC"]]}],["'Hear me! I bring news.'",{"entites":[]}],["'But let us--'",{"entites":[]}],["Out shot the long yellow hand compelling silence. Kim tucked his feet",{"entites":[[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"],[50,53,"PERSON"]]}],["under his robe-edge obediently.",{"entites":[]}],["'Hear me! I bring news! The Search is finished. Comes now the",{"entites":[]}],["Reward. . . . Thus. When we were among the Hills, I lived on thy",{"entites":[[43,48,"LOC"],[43,48,"LOC"],[43,48,"LOC"]]}],["strength till the young branch bowed and nigh broke. When we came out of",{"entites":[]}],["the Hills, I was troubled for thee and for other matters which I held in",{"entites":[[4,9,"LOC"],[4,9,"LOC"],[4,9,"LOC"]]}],["my heart. The boat of my soul lacked direction; I could not see into the",{"entites":[]}],["Cause of Things. So I gave thee over to the virtuous woman altogether. I",{"entites":[]}],["took no food. I drank no water. Still I saw not the Way. They pressed",{"entites":[]}],["food upon me and cried at my shut door. So I removed myself to a hollow",{"entites":[]}],["under a tree. I took no food. I took no water. I sat in meditation two",{"entites":[]}],["days and two nights, abstracting my mind; inbreathing and outbreathing",{"entites":[]}],["in the required manner. . . . Upon the second night--so great was my",{"entites":[]}],["reward--the wise Soul loosed itself from the silly Body and went free.",{"entites":[]}],["This I have never before attained, though I have stood on the threshold",{"entites":[]}],["of it. Consider, for it is a marvel!'",{"entites":[]}],["'A marvel indeed. Two days and two nights without food! Where was the",{"entites":[]}],["Sahiba?' said Kim under his breath.",{"entites":[[0,6,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"],[14,17,"PERSON"],[0,6,"PERSON"]]}],["'Yea, my Soul went free, and, wheeling like an eagle, saw indeed that",{"entites":[]}],["there was no Teshoo Lama nor any other soul. As a drop draws to water,",{"entites":[[13,24,"PERSON"],[13,24,"PERSON"],[13,24,"PERSON"]]}],["so my soul drew near to the Great Soul which is beyond all things. At",{"entites":[]}],["that point, exalted in contemplation, I saw all Hind, from Ceylon in the",{"entites":[[48,52,"LOC"],[48,52,"LOC"],[48,52,"LOC"]]}],["sea to the Hills, and my own Painted Rocks at Suchzen; I saw every camp",{"entites":[[11,16,"LOC"],[46,53,"LOC"],[46,53,"LOC"],[11,16,"LOC"],[46,53,"LOC"],[11,16,"LOC"]]}],["and village, to the least, where we have ever rested. I saw them at one",{"entites":[]}],["time and in one place; for they were within the Soul. By this I knew the",{"entites":[]}],["Soul had passed beyond the illusion of Time and Space and of Things. By",{"entites":[]}],["this I knew that I was free. I saw thee lying in thy cot, and I saw",{"entites":[]}],["thee falling down hill under the idolater--at one time, in one place, in",{"entites":[]}],["my Soul, which, as I say, had touched the Great Soul. Also I saw the",{"entites":[]}],["stupid body of Teshoo Lama lying down, and the hakim from Dacca kneeled",{"entites":[[58,63,"LOC"],[58,63,"LOC"],[58,63,"LOC"],[15,26,"PERSON"],[15,26,"PERSON"],[15,26,"PERSON"]]}],["beside, shouting in its ear. Then my Soul was all alone, and I saw",{"entites":[]}],["nothing, for I was all things, having reached the Great Soul. And I",{"entites":[]}],["meditated a thousand thousand years, passionless, well aware of the",{"entites":[]}],["Causes of all Things. Then a voice cried: \"What shall come to the boy if",{"entites":[]}],["thou art dead?\" and I was shaken back and forth in myself with pity for",{"entites":[]}],["thee; and I said: \"I will return to my chela, lest he miss the Way.\"",{"entites":[]}],["Upon this my Soul, which is the soul of Teshoo Lama, withdrew itself",{"entites":[[40,51,"LOC"],[40,51,"LOC"],[40,51,"LOC"]]}],["from the Great Soul with strivings and yearnings and retchings and",{"entites":[]}],["agonies not to be told. As the egg from the fish, as the fish from the",{"entites":[]}],["water, as the water from the cloud, as the cloud from the thick air; so",{"entites":[]}],["put forth, so leaped out, so drew away, so fumed up the soul of Teshoo",{"entites":[]}],["Lama from the Great Soul. Then a voice cried: \"The River! Take heed to",{"entites":[]}],["the River!\" and I looked down upon all the world, which was as I had",{"entites":[]}],["seen it before--one in time, one in place--and I saw plainly the River",{"entites":[]}],["of the Arrow at my feet. At that hour my Soul was hampered by some evil",{"entites":[]}],["or other whereof I was not wholly cleansed, and it lay upon my arms and",{"entites":[]}],["coiled round my waist; but I put it aside, and I cast forth as an eagle",{"entites":[]}],["in my flight for the very place of the River. I pushed aside world upon",{"entites":[]}],["world for thy sake. I saw the River below me--the River of the",{"entites":[]}],["Arrow--and, descending, the waters of it closed over me; and behold I",{"entites":[]}],["was again in the body of Teshoo Lama, but free from sin, and the hakim",{"entites":[[25,36,"LOC"],[25,36,"LOC"],[25,36,"LOC"]]}],["from Dacca bore up my head in the waters of the River. It is here! It",{"entites":[[5,10,"LOC"],[5,10,"LOC"],[5,10,"LOC"]]}],["is behind the mango-tope here--even here!'",{"entites":[]}],["'Allah Karim! Oh, well that the Babu was by! Wast thou very wet?'",{"entites":[[32,36,"PERSON"],[32,36,"PERSON"],[32,36,"PERSON"]]}],["'Why should I regard? I remember the hakim was concerned for the body of",{"entites":[]}],["Teshoo Lama. He haled it out of the holy water in his hands, and there",{"entites":[[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"],[0,11,"PERSON"]]}],["came afterwards thy horse-seller from the North with a cot and men, and",{"entites":[[42,47,"LOC"],[42,47,"LOC"],[42,47,"LOC"]]}],["they put the body on the cot and bore it up to the Sahiba's house.'",{"entites":[[51,57,"PERSON"],[51,57,"PERSON"],[51,57,"PERSON"]]}],["'What said the Sahiba?'",{"entites":[[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"],[15,21,"PERSON"]]}],["'I was meditating in that body, and did not hear. So thus the Search is",{"entites":[]}],["ended. For the merit that I have acquired, the River of the Arrow is",{"entites":[]}],["here. It broke forth at our feet, as I have said. I have found it. Son",{"entites":[]}],["of my Soul, I have wrenched my Soul back from the Threshold of Freedom",{"entites":[]}],["to free thee from all sin--as I am free, and sinless. Just is the Wheel!",{"entites":[]}],["Certain is our deliverance. Come!'",{"entites":[]}],["He crossed his hands on his lap and smiled, as a man may who has won",{"entites":[]}],["Salvation for himself and his beloved.",{"entites":[]}],["THE END",{"entites":[]}]]