Some little stream , maybe -- dried in the heats ? But the Holy One would never so cheat an old man . ' ' I do not know . I do not know . ' The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman 's . ' I see thou dost not know . Not being of the Law , the matter is hid from thee . ' ` Ay -- hidden -- hidden . ' ` We are both bound , thou and I , my brother . But I ' -- he rose with a sweep of the soft thick drapery -- ' I go to cut myself free . Come also ! ' ' I am bound , ' said the Curator . ` But whither goest thou ? ' ` First to Kashi -LSB- Benares -RSB- : where else ? There I shall meet one of the pure faith in a Jain temple of that city . He also is a Seeker in secret , and from him haply I may learn . Maybe he will go with me to Buddh Gaya . Thence north and west to Kapilavastu , and there will I seek for the River . Nay , I will seek everywhere as I go -- for the place is not known where the arrow fell . ' ` And how wilt thou go ?
It is a far cry to Delhi , and farther to XXXXX . '
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