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Kim

CHAPTER 15
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He put it in his waist-belt and sobbed with emotion; they had endured so many dangers together.

He led them at high noon along crowded Simla Mall to the Alliance Bank of Simla, where they wished to establish their identity.

Thence he vanished like a dawn-cloud on Jakko.
Behold him, too fine-drawn to sweat, too pressed to vaunt the drugs in his little brass-bound box, ascending Shamlegh slope, a just man made perfect.

Watch him, all Babudom laid aside, smoking at noon on a cot, while a woman with turquoise-studded headgear points south-easterly across the bare grass.

Litters, she says, do not travel as fast as single men, but his birds should now be in the Plains.


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