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Kim

CHAPTER 15
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At that hour my Soul was hampered by some evil or other whereof I was not wholly cleansed, and it lay upon my arms and coiled round my waist; but I put it aside, and I cast forth as an eagle in my flight for the very place of the River.

I pushed aside world upon world for thy sake.

I saw the River below me--the River of the Arrow--and, descending, the waters of it closed over me; and behold I was again in the body of Teshoo Lama, but free from sin, and the hakim from Decca bore up my head in the waters of the River.
It is here! It is behind the mango-tope here--even here!' 'Allah kerim! Oh, well that the Babu was by! Wast thou very wet ?' 'Why should I regard?
I remember the hakim was concerned for the body of Teshoo Lama.

He haled it out of the holy water in his hands, and there came afterwards thy horse-seller from the North with a cot and men, and they put the body on the cot and bore it up to the Sahiba's house.' 'What said the Sahiba ?' 'I was meditating in that body, and did not hear.

So thus the Search is ended.


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