Where is the Saddhu ? ' ` With the polis , ' said Kim ... ` Yet I saved the Kamboh 's child . ' The lama snuffed blandly . ` Ah , chela , see how thou art overtaken ! Thou didst cure the Kamboh 's child solely to acquire merit . But thou didst put a spell on the Mahratta with prideful workings -- I watched thee -- and with sidelong glances to bewilder an old old man and a foolish farmer : whence calamity and suspicion . ' Kim controlled himself with an effort beyond his years . Not more than any other youngster did he like to eat dirt or to be misjudged , but he saw himself in a cleft stick . The train rolled out of Delhi into the night . ` It is true , ' he murmured . ` Where I have offended thee I have done wrong . ' ` It is more , chela . Thou hast loosed an Act upon the world , and as a stone thrown into a pool so spread the consequences thou canst not tell how far . ' This ignorance was well both for Kim 's vanity and for the lama 's peace of mind , when we think that there was then being handed in at Simla a code-wire reporting the arrival of E23 at Delhi , and , more important , the whereabouts of a letter he had been commissioned to -- abstract . Incidentally , an over-zealous policeman had arrested , on charge of murder done in a far southern State , a horribly indignant Ajmir cotton-broker , who was explaining himself to a Mr Strickland on Delhi platform , while E23 was paddling through byways into the locked heart of Delhi city . In two hours several telegrams had reached the angry minister of a southern State reporting that all trace of a somewhat bruised Mahratta had been lost ; and by the time the leisurely train halted at Saharunpore the last ripple of the stone Kim had helped to heave was lapping against the steps of a mosque in far-away Roum -- where it disturbed a pious man at prayers . The lama made his in ample form near the dewy bougainvillea-trellis near the platform , cheered by the clear sunshine and the presence of his disciple . ` We will put these things behind us , ' he said , indicating the brazen engine and the gleaming track . ` The jolting of the te-rain -- though a wonderful thing -- has turned my bones to water . We will use clean air henceforward . '
` Let us go to the Kulu woman 's house ' XXXXX Kim , and stepped forth cheerily under the bundles .
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