I sent gifts and monies and gifts again to them, and they prophesied.' 'Ah,' drawled Kim, with infinite contempt, 'they prophesied!' A professional could have done no better.
'And it was not till I remembered my own Gods that my prayers were heard.

I chose an auspicious hour, and--perhaps thy Holy One has heard of the Abbot of the Lung-Cho lamassery.

It was to him I put the matter, and behold in the due time all came about as I desired.

The Brahmin in the house of the father of my daughter's son has since said that it was through his prayers--which is a little error that I will explain to him when we reach our journey's end.

And so afterwards I go to Buddh Gaya, to make shraddha for the father of my children.' 'Thither go we.' 'Doubly auspicious,' chirruped the old lady.