The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded ? The sleek-barrelled swell before storm -- grey , foamless , enormous , and growing ? Stark calm on the lap of the Line -- or the crazy-eyed hurricane blowing ? His Sea in no showing the same -- his Sea and the same ` neath all showing -- His Sea that his being fulfils ? So and no otherwise -- so and no otherwise hill-men desire their Hills ! The Sea and the Hills . ' I have found my heart again , ' said E23 , under cover of the platform 's tumult . ` Hunger and fear make men dazed , or I might have thought of this escape before . I was right . They come to hunt for me . Thou hast saved my head . ' A group of yellow-trousered Punjab policemen , headed by a hot and perspiring young Englishman , parted the crowd about the carriages . Behind them , inconspicuous as a cat , ambled a small fat person who looked like a lawyer 's tout . ` See the young Sahib reading from a paper . My description is in his hand , ' said E23 . ` Thev go carriage by carriage , like fisher-folk netting a pool . ' When the procession reached their compartment , E23 was counting his beads with a steady jerk of the wrist ; while Kim jeered at him for being so drugged as to have lost the ringed fire-tongs which are the Saddhu 's distinguishing mark . The lama , deep in meditation , stared straight before him ; and the farmer , glancing furtively , gathered up his belongings . ` Nothing here but a parcel of holy-bolies , ' said the Englishman aloud , and passed on amid a ripple of uneasiness ; for native police mean extortion to the native all India over . ` The trouble now , ' whispered E23 , ` lies in sending a wire as to the place where I hid that letter I was sent to find .
I can not XXXXX to the tar-office in this guise . '
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