A light engine slid through the station , and he caught a glimpse of young Barton in the cab . ' I did that child an injustice . He is not altogether a fool , ' said Mahbub Ali . ` To take a fire-carriage for a thief is a new game ! ' When Mahbub Ali came to his camp in the dawn , no one thought it worth while to tell him any news of the night . No one , at least , but one small horseboy , newly advanced to the great man 's service , whom Mahbub called to his tiny tent to assist in some packing . ` It is all known to me , ' whispered Kim , bending above saddlebags . ` Two Sahibs came up on a te-train . I was running to and fro in the dark on this side of the trucks as the te-train moved up and down slowly . They fell upon two men sitting under this truck -- Hajji , what shall I do with this lump of tobacco ? Wrap it in paper and put it under the salt-bag ? Yes -- and struck them down . But one man struck at a Sahib with a fakir 's buck 's horn ' -LRB- Kim meant the conjoined black-buck horns , which are a fakir 's sole temporal weapon -RRB- -- ` the blood came . So the other Sahib , first smiting his own man senseless , smote the stabber with a short gun which had rolled from the first man 's hand . They all raged as though mad together . ' Mahbub smiled with heavenly resignation . ` No ! That is not so much dewanee -LSB- madness , or a case for the civil court -- the word can be punned upon both ways -RSB- as nizamut -LSB- a criminal case -RSB- . A gun , sayest thou ? Ten good years in jail . '
` Then they both lay still , but I think they were nearly dead when they were XXXXX on the te-train .
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