'That is true.' 'But it is not to be thought that this running out and in is any way good.' 'It was my holiday, Hajji.

I was a slave for many weeks.

Why should I not run away when the school was shut?
Look, too, how I, living upon my friends or working for my bread, as I did with the Sikh, have saved the Colonel Sahib a great expense.' Mahbub's lips twitched under his well-pruned Mohammedan moustache.
'What are a few rupees'-- the Pathan threw out his open hand carelessly--'to the Colonel Sahib?
He spends them for a purpose, not in any way for love of thee.' 'That,' said Kim slowly, 'I knew a very long time ago.' 'Who told ?' 'The Colonel Sahib himself.

Not in those many words, but plainly enough for one who is not altogether a mud-head.

Yea, he told me in the te-rain when we went down to Lucknow.' 'Be it so.