Kim shook his head . He , of course , knew nothing of E 's predecessor , slain down South in the habit of an Arab trader . ` Having found a certain letter which I was sent to seek , I came away . I escaped from the city and ran to Mhow . So sure was I that none knew , I did not change my face . At Mhow a woman brought charge against me of theft of jewellery in that city which I had left . Then I saw the cry was out against me . I ran from Mhow by night , bribing the police , who had been bribed to hand me over without question to my enemies in the South . Then I lay in old Chitor city a week , a penitent in a temple , but I could not get rid of the letter which was my charge . I buried it under the Queen 's Stone , at Chitor , in the place known to us all . ' Kim did not know , but not for worlds would he have broken the thread . ` At Chitor , look you , I was all in Kings ' country ; for Kotah to the east is beyond the Queen 's law , and east again lie Jaipur and Gwalior . Neither love spies , and there is no justice . I was hunted like a wet jackal ; but I broke through at Bandakui , where I heard there was a charge against me of murder in the city I had left -- of the murder of a boy . They have both the corpse and the witnesses waiting . ' ` But can not the Government protect ? ' ` We of the Game are beyond protection . If we die , we die . Our names are blotted from the book . That is all .
At XXXXX , where lives one of Us , I thought to slip the scent by changing my face , and so made me a Mahratta .
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