` She has acquired merit beyond all others , ' said the lama . ` For to set a man upon the way to Freedom is half as great as though she had herself found it . ' ` Umm , ' said Kim thoughtfully , considering the past . ` It may be that I have acquired merit also ... At least she did not treat me like a child . ' He hitched the front of his robe , where lay the slab of documents and maps , re-stowed the precious food-bag at the lama 's feet , laid his hand on the litter 's edge , and buckled down to the slow pace of the grunting husbands . ` These also acquire merit , ' said the lama after three miles . ` More than that , they shall be paid in silver , ' quoth Kim . The Woman of Shamlegh had given it to him ; and it was only fair , he argued , that her men should earn it back again . Chapter 15 I 'd not give room for an Emperor -- I 'd hold my road for a King . To the Triple Crown I 'd not bow down -- But this is a different thing ! I 'll not fight with the Powers of Air -- Sentry , pass him through ! Drawbridge let fall -- He 's the Lord of us all -- The Dreamer whose dream came true ! The Siege of the Fairies . Two hundred miles north of Chini , on the blue shale of Ladakh , lies Yankling Sahib , the merry-minded man , spy-glassing wrathfully across the ridges for some sign of his pet tracker -- a man from Ao-chung . But that renegade , with a new Mannlicher rifle and two hundred cartridges , is elsewhere , shooting musk-deer for the market , and Yankling Sahib will learn next season how very ill he has been . Up the valleys of Bushahr -- the far-beholding eagles of the Himalayas swerve at his new blue-and-white gored umbrella -- hurries a Bengali , once fat and well-looking , now lean and weather-worn . He has received the thanks of two foreigners of distinction , piloted not unskilfully to Mashobra tunnel , which leads to the great and gay capital of India . It was not his fault that , blanketed by wet mists , he conveyed them past the telegraph-station and European colony of Kotgarh . It was not his fault , but that of the Gods , of whom he discoursed so engagingly , that he led them into the borders of Nahan , where the Rahah of that State mistook them for deserting British soldiery . Hurree Babu explained the greatness and glory , in their own country , of his companions , till the drowsy kinglet smiled .
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