` Go on with the dawut -LSB- invocation -RSB- . Give him full Protection . ' ' O Hearer ! Thou that hearest with ears , be present . Listen , O Hearer ! ' Huneefa moaned , her dead eyes turned to the west . The dark room filled with moanings and snortings . From the outer balcony , a ponderous figure raised a round bullet head and coughed nervously . ` Do not interrupt this ventriloquial necromanciss , my friend , ' it said in English . ' I opine that it is very disturbing to you , but no enlightened observer is jolly-well upset . ' ' ... ... I will lay a plot for their ruin ! O Prophet , bear with the unbelievers . Let them alone awhile ! ' Huneefa 's face , turned to the northward , worked horribly , and it was as though voices from the ceiling answered her . Hurree Babu returned to his note-book , balanced on the window-sill , but his hand shook . Huneefa , in some sort of drugged ecstasy , wrenched herself to and fro as she sat cross-legged by Kim 's still head , and called upon devil after devil , in the ancient order of the ritual , binding them to avoid the boy 's every action . ` With Him are the keys of the Secret Things ! None knoweth them besides Himself He knoweth that which is in the dry land and in the sea ! ' Again broke out the unearthly whistling responses . ` I -- I apprehend it is not at all malignant in its operation ? '
said the XXXXX , watching the throat-muscles quiver and jerk as Huneefa spoke with tongues .
Babu English Huneefa Prophet dawut necromanciss note-book snortings unbelievers window-sill