` None reared in the knowledge , ' said the family priest , ` forget how the planets stood in their Houses upon that night . ' He began to draw in the dust of the courtyard . ` At least thou hast good claim to a half of the House of the Bull . How runs thy prophecy ? ' ` Upon a day , ' said Kim , delighted at the sensation he was creating , ' I shall be made great by means of a Red Bull on a green field , but first there will enter two men making all things ready . ' ` Yes : thus ever at the opening of a vision . A thick darkness that clears slowly ; anon one enters with a broom making ready the place . Then begins the Sight . Two men -- thou sayest ? Ay , ay . The Sun , leaving the House of the Bull , enters that of the Twins . Hence the two men of the prophecy . Let us now consider . Fetch me a twig , little one . ' He knitted his brows , scratched , smoothed out , and scratched again in the dust mysterious signs -- to the wonder of all save the lama , who , with fine instinct , forbore to interfere . At the end of half an hour , he tossed the twig from him with a grunt . ` Hm ! Thus say the stars . Within three days come the two men to make all things ready . After them follows the Bull ; but the sign over against him is the sign of War and armed men . '
` There was indeed a man of the Ludhiana Sikhs in the carriage from Lahore , ' XXXXX the cultivator 's wife hopefully .
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