The Amritzar girl smiled ; for she knew the talk was to win her approval . ` Alas ! ' said the cultivator 's wife at the end . ` So their villages were burnt and their little children made homeless ? ' ` They had marked our dead . They paid a great payment after we of the Sikhs had schooled them . So it was . Is this Amritzar ? ' ` Ay , and here they cut our tickets , ' said the banker , fumbling at his belt . The lamps were paling in the dawn when the half-caste guard came round . Ticket-collecting is a slow business in the East , where people secrete their tickets in all sorts of curious places . Kim produced his and was told to get out . ` But I go to Umballa , ' he protested . ' I go with this holy man . ' ` Thou canst go to Jehannum for aught I care . This ticket is only -- ' Kim burst into a flood of tears , protesting that the lama was his father and his mother , that he was the prop of the lama 's declining years , and that the lama would die without his care . All the carriage bade the guard be merciful -- the banker was specially eloquent here -- but the guard hauled Kim on to the platform . The lama blinked -- he could not overtake the situation and Kim lifted up his voice and wept outside the carriage window . ' I am very poor . My father is dead -- my mother is dead .
O charitable ones , if I XXXXX left here , who shall tend that old man ? '
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