He held out his hand English-fashion . She took it mechanically . ` Good-bye , my dear . ' ` Good-bye , and -- and ' -- she was remembering her English words one by one -- ` you will come back again ? Good-bye , and -- thee God bless you . ' Half an hour later , as the creaking litter jolted up the hill path that leads south-easterly from Shamlegh , Kim saw a tiny figure at the hut door waving a white rag . ` She has acquired merit beyond all others , ' said the lama . ` For to set a man upon the way to Freedom is half as great as though she had herself found it . ' ` Umm , ' said Kim thoughtfully , considering the past . ` It may be that I have acquired merit also ... At least she did not treat me like a child . ' He hitched the front of his robe , where lay the slab of documents and maps , re-stowed the precious food-bag at the lama 's feet , laid his hand on the litter 's edge , and buckled down to the slow pace of the grunting husbands . ` These also acquire merit , ' said the lama after three miles . ` More than that , they shall be paid in silver , ' quoth Kim . The Woman of Shamlegh had given it to him ; and it was only fair , he argued , that her men should earn it back again . Chapter 15 I 'd not give room for an Emperor -- I 'd hold my road for a King . To the Triple Crown I 'd not bow down -- But this is a different thing ! I 'll not fight with the Powers of Air -- Sentry , pass him through ! Drawbridge let fall -- He 's the Lord of us all -- The Dreamer whose dream came true ! The Siege of the Fairies . Two hundred miles north of Chini , on the blue shale of Ladakh , lies Yankling Sahib , the merry-minded man , spy-glassing wrathfully across the ridges for some sign of his pet tracker -- a man from Ao-chung .
But that renegade , with a new Mannlicher rifle and two hundred cartridges , is elsewhere , shooting musk-deer for the market , and Yankling XXXXX will learn next season how very ill he has been .
Chini Crown English English-fashion King Ladakh Sahib Shamlegh food-bag lama