the keen eyes swept the veranda for an Instant -- ` thy lama has sent what to me looks like a note of hand . I have had some few dealings in hoondis . The Colonel Sahib is looking at it . ' ` What good is all this to me ? ' said Kim wearily . ` Thou wilt go away , and they will return me to those empty rooms where there is no good place to sleep and where the boys beat me . ' ' I do not think that . Have patience , child . All Pathans are not faithless -- except in horseflesh . ' Five -- ten -- fifteen minutes passed , Father Victor talking energetically or asking questions which the Colonel answered . ` Now I 've told you everything that I know about the boy from beginnin to end ; and it 's a blessed relief to me . Did ye ever hear the like ? ' ` At any rate , the old man has sent the money . Gobind Sahai 's notes of hand are good from here to China , ' said the Colonel . ` The more one knows about natives the less can one say what they will or wo n't do . ' ` That 's consolin ' -- from the head of the Ethnological Survey . It 's this mixture of Red Bulls and Rivers of Healing -LRB- poor heathen , God help him ! -RRB- an ' notes of hand and Masonic certificates . Are you a Mason , by any chance ? ' ` By Jove , I am , now I come to think of it .
That 's an additional reason , ' XXXXX the Colonel absently .
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