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Kim

CHAPTER 11
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A lamp twinkled, and there followed the sound of a prayer.

Kim watched the stars as they rose one after another in the still, sticky dark, till he fell asleep at the foot of the altar.

That night he dreamed in Hindustani, with never an English word...
'Holy One, there is the child to whom we gave the medicine,' he said, about three o'clock in the morning, when the lama, also waking from dreams, would have fared forth on pilgrimage.

'The Jat will be here at the light.' 'I am well answered.

In my haste I would have done a wrong.' He sat down on the cushions and returned to his rosary.


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