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Kim

CHAPTER 9
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'Oh, I mean if you like.

I know where you want to go.' Four days later a seat was booked for Kim and his small trunk at the rear of a Kalka tonga.

His companion was the whale-like Babu, who, with a fringed shawl wrapped round his head, and his fat openwork-stockinged left leg tucked under him, shivered and grunted in the morning chill.
'How comes it that this man is one of us ?' thought Kim considering the jelly back as they jolted down the road; and the reflection threw him into most pleasant day-dreams.

Lurgan Sahib had given him five rupees--a splendid sum--as well as the assurance of his protection if he worked.

Unlike Mahbub, Lurgan Sahib had spoken most explicitly of the reward that would follow obedience, and Kim was content.


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