Ask him for a blessing.' 'Ten thousand blessings,' shrilled Kim.

'O Holy One, a woman has given us in charity so that I can come with thee--a woman with a golden heart.

I run for the tikkut.' The girl looked up at the lama, who had mechanically followed Kim to the platform.

He bowed his head that he might not see her, and muttered in Tibetan as she passed on with the crowd.
'Light come--light go,' said the cultivator's wife viciously.
'She has acquired merit,' returned the lama.

'Beyond doubt it was a nun.' 'There be ten thousand such nuns in Amritzar alone.