37/52 'Let us finish the colouring,' said he. 'The boy is well protected if--if the Lords of the Air have ears to hear. I am a Sufi [free-thinker], but when one can get blind-sides of a woman, a stallion, or a devil, why go round to invite a kick? I must get back to my horses.' 'All raight,' said Hurree Babu. 'He is at present curious spectacle.' About third cockcrow, Kim woke after a sleep of thousands of years. |