Then He speaks , saying : `` Loose such and such a regiment . Call out such guns . '' ' The old man rose stiffly and saluted . ' `` For '' ' -- Kim translated into the vernacular the clinching sentences he had heard in the dressing-room at Umballa -- ' `` For , '' says He , `` we should have done this long ago . It is not war -- it is a chastisement . Snff ! '' ' ` Enough . I believe . I have seen Him thus in the smoke of battles . Seen and heard . It is He ! ' ' I saw no smoke ' -- Kim 's voice shifted to the rapt sing-song of the wayside fortune-teller . ' I saw this in darkness . First came a man to make things clear . Then came horsemen . Then came He standing in a ring of light . The rest followed as I have said . Old man , have I spoken truth ? ' ` It is He . Past all doubt it is He . '
The crowd drew a long , quavering breath , staring alternately at the old man , still at attention , and ragged XXXXX against the purple twilight .
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