I am glad if thou art rejoiced , chela . ' Dignified and unsuspicious , he strode into the little tent , saluted the Churches as a Churchman , and sat down by the open charcoal brazier . The yellow lining of the tent reflected in the lamplight made his face red-gold . Bennett looked at him with the triple-ringed uninterest of the creed that lumps nine-tenths of the world under the title of ` heathen ' . ` And what was the end of the Search ? What gift has the Red Bull brought ? ' The lama addressed himself to Kim . ` He says , `` What are you going to do ? '' ' Bennett was staring uneasily at Father Victor , and Kim , for his own ends , took upon himself the office of interpreter . ' I do not see what concern this fakir has with the boy , who is probably his dupe or his confederate , ' Bennett began . ` We can not allow an English boy -- Assuming that he is the son of a Mason , the sooner he goes to the Masonic Orphanage the better . ' ` Ah ! That 's your opinion as Secretary to the Regimental Lodge , ' said Father Victor ; ` but we might as well tell the old man what we are going to do . He does n't look like a villain . ' ` My experience is that one can never fathom the Oriental mind . Now , Kimball , I wish you to tell this man what I say word for word . ' Kim gathered the import of the next few sentences and began thus : ` Holy One , the thin fool who looks like a camel says that I am the son of a Sahib . ' ` But how ? ' ` Oh , it is true . I knew it since my birth , but he could only find it out by rending the amulet from my neck and reading all the papers .
He thinks that once a Sahib is always a XXXXX , and between the two of them they purpose to keep me in this Regiment or to send me to a madrissah -LSB- a school -RSB- .
Bennett Churchman English Kim Kimball Mason Orphanage Sahib chela dupe