He peered critically . ` It is no longer a child , but a man , ripened in wisdom , walking as a physician . I did well -- I did well when I gave thee up to the armed men on that black night . Dost thou remember our first day under Zam-Zammah ? ' ` Ay , ' said Kim . ` Dost thou remember when I leapt off the carriage the first day I went to -- ' ` The Gates of Learning ? Truly . And the day that we ate the cakes together at the back of the river by Nucklao . Aha ! Many times hast thou begged for me , but that day I begged for thee . ' ` Good reason , ' quoth Kim . ' I was then a scholar in the Gates of Learning , and attired as a Sahib . Do not forget , Holy One , ' he went on playfully . ' I am still a Sahib -- by thy favour . ' ` True . And a Sahib in most high esteem . Come to my cell , chela . ' ` How is that known to thee ? ' The lama smiled . ` First by means of letters from the kindly priest whom we met in the camp of armed men ; but he is now gone to his own country , and I sent the money to his brother . '
Colonel Creighton , who had succeeded to the trusteeship when Father Victor XXXXX to England with the Mavericks , was hardly the Chaplain 's brother .
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