That is one part of my bond.' 'The Colonel Sahib is not yet aware of that contract.

Thou art to lodge in Lurgan Sahib's house till it is time to go again to Nucklao.' 'I had sooner lodge with thee, Mahbub.' 'Thou dost not know the honour.

Lurgan Sahib himself asked for thee.
Thou wilt go up the hill and along the road atop, and there thou must forget for a while that thou hast ever seen or spoken to me, Mahbub Ali, who sells horses to Creighton Sahib, whom thou dost not know.
Remember this order.' Kim nodded.

'Good,' said he, 'and who is Lurgan Sahib?
Nay'-- he caught Mahbub's sword-keen glance--'indeed I have never heard his name.
Is he by chance--he lowered his voice--'one of us ?' 'What talk is this of us, Sahib ?' Mahbub Ali returned, in the tone he used towards Europeans.

'I am a Pathan; thou art a Sahib and the son of a Sahib.