He must believe that the boy's coming here--to his own Regiment--in search of his Red Bull is in the nature of a miracle.

Consider the chances against it, Bennett.

This one boy in all India, and our Regiment of all others on the line o' march for him to meet with! It's predestined on the face of it.

Yes, tell him it's Kismet.

Kismet, mallum?
[Do you understand ?]' He turned towards the lama, to whom he might as well have talked of Mesopotamia.
'They say,'-- the old man's eye lighted at Kim's speech 'they say that the meaning of my horoscope is now accomplished, and that being led back--though as thou knowest I went out of curiosity--to these people and their Red Bull I must needs go to a madrissah and be turned into a Sahib.