Oho ! Then we be neighbours in some sort , as it were . ' He nodded tenderly to the wailing child in his arms . ` Whom dost thou serve ? ' ' A most holy man at the Temple of the Tirthankers . ' ` They are all most holy and -- most greedy , ' said the Jat with bitterness . ' I have walked the pillars and trodden the temples till my feet are flayed , and the child is no whit better . And the mother being sick too ... Hush , then , little one ... We changed his name when the fever came . We put him into girl 's clothes . There was nothing we did not do , except -- I said to his mother when she bundled me off to Benares -- she should have come with me -- I said Sakhi Sarwar Sultan would serve us best . We know His generosity , but these down-country Gods are strangers . ' The child turned on the cushion of the huge corded arms and looked at Kim through heavy eyelids . ` And was it all worthless ? ' Kim asked , with easy interest . ` All worthless -- all worthless , ' said the child , lips cracking with fever . ` The Gods have given him a good mind , at least ' said the father proudly . ` To think he should have listened so cleverly . Yonder is thy Temple . Now I am a poor man -- many priests have dealt with me -- but my son is my son , and if a gift to thy master can cure him -- I am at my very wits ' end . ' Kim considered for a while , tingling with pride .
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