` Perhaps the holy man will be merciful in loving-kindness , sar , otherwise -- ' ' I promise myself a peculiar pleasure in emptying my revolver into that young bonze when next we meet , ' was the unchristian answer . ` Revolvers ! Vengeance ! Bonzes ! ' Hurree crouched lower . The war was breaking out afresh . ` Have you no consideration for our loss ? The baggage ! The baggage ! ' He could hear the speaker literally dancing on the grass . ` Everything we bore ! Everything we have secured ! Our gains ! Eight months ' work ! Do you know what that means ? `` Decidedly it is we who can deal with Orientals ! '' Oh , you have done well . ' They fell to it in several tongues , and Hurree smiled . Kim was with the kiltas , and in the kiltas lay eight months of good diplomacy . There was no means of communicating with the boy , but he could be trusted .
For the rest , XXXXX could so stage-manage the journey through the hills that Hilas , Bunar , and four hundred miles of hill-roads should tell the tale for a generation .
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