Listen now . I have turned aside the Colonel 's whip from thy skin , and that is no small service . ' ` True . ' Kim pulled serenely . ` That is true . ' ` But it is not to be thought that this running out and in is any way good . ' ` It was my holiday , Hajji . I was a slave for many weeks . Why should I not run away when the school was shut ? Look , too , how I , living upon my friends or working for my bread , as I did with the Sikh , have saved the Colonel Sahib a great expense . ' Mahbub 's lips twitched under his well-pruned Mohammedan moustache . ` What are a few rupees ' -- the Pathan threw out his open hand carelessly -- ` to the Colonel Sahib ? He spends them for a purpose , not in any way for love of thee . ' ` That , ' said Kim slowly , ' I knew a very long time ago . ' ` Who told ? ' ` The Colonel Sahib himself . Not in those many words , but plainly enough for one who is not altogether a mud-head . Yea , he told me in the te-rain when we went down to Lucknow . ' ` Be it so . Then I will tell thee more , Friend of all the World , though in the telling I lend thee my head . '
` It was forfeit to me , ' XXXXX Kim , with deep relish , ` in Umballa , when thou didst pick me up on the horse after the drummer-boy beat me . '
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