` Dost thou remember when I leapt off the carriage the first day I went to -- ' ` The Gates of Learning ? Truly . And the day that we ate the cakes together at the back of the river by Nucklao . Aha ! Many times hast thou begged for me , but that day I begged for thee . ' ` Good reason , ' quoth Kim . ' I was then a scholar in the Gates of Learning , and attired as a Sahib . Do not forget , Holy One , ' he went on playfully . ' I am still a Sahib -- by thy favour . ' ` True . And a Sahib in most high esteem . Come to my cell , chela . ' ` How is that known to thee ? ' The lama smiled . ` First by means of letters from the kindly priest whom we met in the camp of armed men ; but he is now gone to his own country , and I sent the money to his brother . ' Colonel Creighton , who had succeeded to the trusteeship when Father Victor went to England with the Mavericks , was hardly the Chaplain 's brother . ` But I do not well understand Sahibs ' letters . They must be interpreted to me . I chose a surer way . Many times when I returned from my Search to this Temple , which has always been a nest to me , there came one seeking Enlightenment -- a man from Leh -- that had been , he said , a Hindu , but wearied of all those Gods . '
The XXXXX pointed to the Arhats . '
Aha Chaplain Hindu Learning Leh Nucklao Sahib Sahibs chela lama