Our mutual friend , he is old friend of mine . He has been in some dam ' - tight places . Now he will be in some more . He told me ; I tell Mr Lurgan ; and he is pleased you graduate so nicely . All the Department is pleased . ' For the first time in his life , Kim thrilled to the clean pride -LRB- it can be a deadly pitfall , none the less -RRB- of Departmental praise -- ensnaring praise from an equal of work appreciated by fellow-workers . Earth has nothing on the same plane to compare with it . But , cried the Oriental in him , Babus do not travel far to retail compliments . ` Tell thy tale , Babu , ' he said authoritatively . ` Oah , it is nothing . Onlee I was at Simla when the wire came in about what our mutual friend said he had hidden , and old Creighton -- ' He looked to see how Kim would take this piece of audacity . ` The Colonel Sahib , ' the boy from St Xavier 's corrected . ` Of course . He found me at a loose string , and I had to go down to Chitor to find that beastly letter . I do not like the South -- too much railway travel ; but I drew good travelling allowance . Ha ! Ha ! I meet our mutual at Delhi on the way back . He lies quiett just now , and says Saddhu-disguise suits him to the ground . Well , there I hear what you have done so well , so quickly , upon the instantaneous spur of the moment .
I XXXXX our mutual you take the bally bun , by Jove !
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