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Kim

CHAPTER 14
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Now the Wheel serves me.

But for the merit I have acquired in guiding thee upon the Way, there would have been added to me yet another life ere I had found my River.

Is it plain, chela ?' Kim stared at the brutally disfigured chart.

From left to right diagonally the rent ran--from the Eleventh House where Desire gives birth to the Child (as it is drawn by Tibetans)--across the human and animal worlds, to the Fifth House--the empty House of the Senses.

The logic was unanswerable.
'Before our Lord won Enlightenment'-- the lama folded all away with reverence--'He was tempted.


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