26/64 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... '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. |