Do not wake him . I have no wish to hear him call thee master . ' ` But he is my disciple . What else ? ' ` He has told me . ' Mahbub choked down his touch of spleen and rose laughing . ' I am not altogether of thy faith , Red Hat -- if so small a matter concern thee . ' ` It is nothing , ' said the lama . ' I thought not . Therefore it will not move thee , sinless , new-washed and three parts drowned to boot , when I call thee a good man -- a very good man . We have talked together some four or five evenings now , and for all I am a horse-coper I can still , as the saying is , see holiness beyond the legs of a horse . Yea , can see , too , how our Friend of all the World put his hand in thine at the first . Use him well , and suffer him to return to the world as a teacher , when thou hast -- bathed his legs , if that be the proper medicine for the colt . ' ` Why not follow the Way thyself , and so accompany the boy ? ' Mahbub stared stupefied at the magnificent insolence of the demand , which across the Border he would have paid with more than a blow . Then the humour of it touched his worldly soul . ` Softly -- softly -- one foot at a time , as the lame gelding went over the Umballa jumps . I may come to Paradise later -- I have workings that way -- great motions -- and I owe them to thy simplicity . Thou hast never lied ? ' ` What need ? ' '
O Allah , XXXXX him !
Do bathed come hear lied move talked thought told touched