On the other hand, if ye go to St Xavier's ye'll get a better education an--an can have the religion.

D'ye see my dilemma?
Kim saw nothing save a vision of the lama going south in a train with none to beg for him.
'Like most people, I'm going to temporize.

If your friend sends the money from Benares--Powers of Darkness below, where's a street-beggar to raise three hundred rupees ?--ye'll go down to Lucknow and I'll pay your fare, because I can't touch the subscription-money if I intend, as I do, to make ye a Catholic.

If he doesn't, ye'll go to the Military Orphanage at the Regiment's expense.

I'll allow him three days' grace, though I don't believe it at all.