He told them that a country-cart had upset and nearly slain him: he was going to Delhi, where his son lived.

Kim watched him closely.

If, as he asserted, he had been rolled over and over on the earth, there should have been signs of gravel-rash on the skin.
But all his injuries seemed clean cuts, and a mere fall from a cart could not cast a man into such extremity of terror.

As, with shaking fingers, he knotted up the torn cloth about his neck he laid bare an amulet of the kind called a keeper-up of the heart.

Now, amulets are common enough, but they are not generally strung on square-plaited copper wire, and still fewer amulets bear black enamel on silver.
There were none except the Kamboh and the lama in the compartment, which, luckily, was of an old type with solid ends.