Kim

ll, from Pri

either creed

e Soul of a

im at K

at Ka

e end of night; the electrics sizzling over the goods-y

ze of girders above. He stood in a gigantic stone hall paved, it seemed, with the sheeted dead third-class passengers who had taken their tickets overn

behind that hole'-Kim pointed to the ticket-office-

enares,' he rep

res then. Quic

hou the

epers sprang to life, and the station filled with clamour and shoutings, cries of water and sweetmeat vendors, sh

implicity (he had handed him a small bag full of rupees), Kim asked and paid for a ticket to Um

ve for farmers, but I live in the city of Lahore. It wa

d and dealt the

urn is just so much. I know the ways of the te-rain ... Never did yogi need chela as thou dost,' he went on merrily to the bewildered lama. 'They would have flung thee out at Mian

crowded third-class carriage. 'Were

aid? Do not be afraid. I remember the time when I was afraid o

d the lama. 'Have ye

Hindu Jat from the rich Jullundur, district. Our night trains are not as well looked

' said the blueturbaned husband. 'Pick up

my knee, Shameless? But men are ever thus!' She looked round for approva

folded account-book in a cloth under his arm. With

on the unborn calf,' said a young Dogra soldi

l to Benares?'

ould we come? Enter, or

zar girl. 'He has never e

ting out a large brown hand and hauli

ainst the Rule to sit on a bench,' sa

t one rule of right living which these te-rains do not cause us to b

ones,' said the wife, scowling at the Amr

along the road,' said the husband

saved on food by the way. That w

ousand tongues

hich may not look at or reply to a woman.' For the lama, constrained by his

'Not when the woman is well-looking a

g. 'Thou hast brought it on thyself, sister

the woman, handing him the half

to Ben

ested. 'Have ye any tricks to pass the ti

'he is holy, and thinks upo

hs'-he rolled it out sonorously-'do not t

kh craftsman quietly. 'There are also some Dogra companies there.' The soldi

e to me,' said t

norted the cultivato

ere, one brotherhood. There is one brotherhood of the caste, but beyond tha

egiment,' said the cultiv

ld man in the corner. 'Thy Sikhs thought so when our two companies came to help them at t

es of the Ludhiana Sikhs had acquitted themselves well. The Amr

he end. 'So their villages were burnt a

eat payment after we of the Sikhs had sch

r tickets,' said the bank

et-collecting is a slow business in the East, where people secrete their tic

' he protested. 'I go

nnum for aught I care.

that the lama would die without his care. All the carriage bade the guard be merciful-the banker was specially eloquent here-but the guard haul

ther is dead. O charitable ones, if I am

must go to Benares. He must come with me. He

e we Rajahs to throw away good silv

nd it was on her that Kim kept his watchful eye.

balla-O Breaker of Hearts!' She

y man come fr

North he comes,' cried Ki

-in the hills there is snow. My mother was from

woman has given us in charity so that I can come with t

Kim to the platform. He bowed his head that he might not see

,' said the cultivat

' returned the lama. 'Be

ar alone. Return, old man, or the te-rain

for a little food also,' said Kim, leaping to

he flat green levels. All the rich Punjab lay out in the splendour of t

patronizing grin. 'We have gone farther since Lahore than tho

. Then the banker, the cultivator, and the soldier prepared their pipes and wrapped the compartment in choking, acrid smoke, spitting and coughing and enjoying th

res?' said the lama of a sud

d the banker, when the l

t ot

her than

as the thought of a ce

an and goes to the Gods. Thrice have I made p

sepoy drily, and the travellers

n the round of lives anew-still tied to the Wheel.' He shook his head test

wn faith art thou?' th

t Law. So it was the Gods that made

ement. It was inconceivable that a

God?' said the mon

osary to his hand. 'Hear: for I speak

e Buddha's life. The gentle, tolerant folk looked on reverently. All India is full of holy men stammering gospels in strange tongues; shaken an

the Pirzai Kotal, and a priest of theirs-he was, as I remember, a naik-when the fit was on him, s

was in a strange land. 'Hear the tale of the Arr

he told it. 'Now, O people of Hind, I go to seek that River. Know y

ne-who washes away sin.' ran

-way,' said the cultivator's wife, looking out of

'For me, a stream that leaves good silt on my land suffices, and I thank B

e so far North?' said t

soothingly, as he spat re

ander the Great]. He paved the streets of Jullundur and built a great tank near Umballa

oldier jestingly to Kim, quoting a Northern proverb. 'That

e pauses of their talk they could hear the low droning 'Om mane pudme h

the clatter irk me. Moreover, my chela, I th

not the River near Benares? W

may be any one of these little

not

rit I had acquired over yonder at Such-zen. From beside th

ed Kim. 'There was but one of me. Think again and thou wi

ite beard holy among images-who himself made mo

ly listening company. 'And the Sahib of the Wonder House talked to him-yes, this is truth as a br

-the River of

ng for that River on foot. So that we miss not

n?' The lama-very pleased that he r

tirely happy to be out chewing pan and seeing

help thee and carry thee-whither? I have forgo

owhere,' said Kim. 'It i

Red Bull on a green field, that shall carry thee to the heavens or what? Was it a vision? Did one make a prophecy?

', they will weave wonderful things,' said the Sikh. 'All holy men dre

peated. 'In a former life it may be thou hast acqu

e. But I will seek the Bull about Umballa, and thou canst

the lama, hopefully as a child. Then to the company, indicating Kim: 'T

y men to boot, but never such a yogi

finger and smiled. But the next time the lama wo

py, and dusty-they reac

lodge with my man's cousin's younger brother. There is room also in th

ging for the night. It is a kindly land, this land of

d his head in

ouse with wastrels-' the husband began,

t on his daughter's marriage-feast,' said the woman crisply. 'Let

nder shelter for the night, that he might seek Mahbub Ali's E

rd of a decent Hindu house behind the cantonments, 'I go away for a whil

caught at his wrist. 'And thou wilt return in this very s

Think how far thou art on the road-a

monastery. Alas! It is a

groom, bringing a dog-cart home from the Club, made him quite sure. It remained only to identify his man, and Kim slipped through the garden hedge and hid in a clump of plumed grass close to the veranda. The house blazed with lights

or of th

ked towards

b Ali

e no attempt to look for the speake

e white stallion is

lishman switched at the rose-h

e servant passed he picked it up, dropped a rupee-Kim could hear the clink-and strode into the house, never turning round. Swiftly Kim took up the money; but for all his training, he was Irish en

that was half office, littered with papers and despatch-boxes, and sit down to study Mahbub Ali's message. His face, by the full

voice. 'You ought to be in the drawin

till read

nutes later. 'He's come. I can

behind it halted at the veranda, and a tall, black haired man, erect as

hing the high wheels. His man and the

officer promptly. 'Everything w

s,' said Kim's man. 'You can do the h

essing-room together as the landau rolled away. Kim saw their heads bent over Mahbub Al

id the elder. 'I'd been expecting it for some time, but this'-he tapped M

, and Mac

justified in assuming that we take action at once. Warn the Pined and Peshawar brigades. It will disorganize all the summer

ut artill

consult

it mea

man is bound by the ac

may hav

eace. Of course they used it to make themselves stronger. Send off those telegrams at once-the new code, not the old-mine and Wharton's. I don

e, going on his Lahore experiences, he judged there would be food-and informa

rs. 'I came only to wash dish

ow with the soup. Think you that we who serve Creighton Sah

inner,' said Kim, l

r is none other than the Jang-i-L

ote of wonder. He had learned what he wante

a little lying. Every time before that I have borne a message it concerned a woman. Now it is men. Better. The tall man said that they will loo

g meal some one passed him a water-pipe; and Kim felt very much of a man as he pulled at the smooth coconut-shell, his legs spread abroad in the moonlight, his tongue clicking in remarks from time to tim

ir priest's side, but the lama was the guest and the novelty. His gentle kindliness, and his impressive Chinese quotations, that sounded like spells, delighted them hugely; and in

the other could not understand, and pointing upwards as the big stars sailed across the dark. The children of the house tugged unrebuked at his rosary; and he clean forgot the Rule which forbids lookin

is one?' said the cultiv

his feet are upon the Way,' was the answer. 'And his methods

ether I find my Red Bull on a g

thy birth-hour?' the priest a

econd cockcrow of th

hat y

h is in Kashmir.' This Kim had from the woman who took care of him, and she again from Kimball

make Kim's supernatural origin more certain

ur years all likely boys,' cried the cultivator'

in their Houses upon that night.' He began to draw in the dust of the courtyard. 'At

ng, 'I shall be made great by means of a Red Bull on a green fie

king ready the place. Then begins the Sight. Two men-thou sayest? Ay, ay. The Sun, leaving the House of the Bull

d again in the dust mysterious signs-to the wonder of all s

our, he tossed the twig

to make all things ready. After them follows the Bull; but

na Sikhs in the carriage from Lahore,

ou with war?' said the priest to Kim. 'Thine is a r

ma earnestly. 'We seek o

overheard in the dressing-room. Deci

horoscope. 'More than this I cannot see. I

the lama. 'I had hoped his Bull

my brother,' the priest replie

gave Kim a large bundle of good food and nearly three annas in copper money for the

and such as these cou

e earth, and who would give us meat and shelter

ama, and he led from the white road across the fiel