Now I can cure them . ' He heard her armlets tinkle as though she bared arms for action . ' I will take over the boy and dose him , and stuff him , and make him all whole . Hai ! hai ! We old people know something yet . ' Wherefore when Kim , aching in every bone , opened his eyes , and would go to the cook-house to get his master 's food , he found strong coercion about him , and a veiled old figure at the door , flanked by the grizzled manservant , who told him very precisely the things that he was on no account to do . ` Thou must have ? Thou shalt have nothing . What ? A locked box in which to keep holy books ? Oh , that is another matter . Heavens forbid I should come between a priest and his prayers ! It shall be brought , and thou shalt keep the key . ' They pushed the coffer under his cot , and Kim shut away Mahbub 's pistol , the oilskin packet of letters , and the locked books and diaries , with a groan of relief . For some absurd reason their weight on his shoulders was nothing to their weight on his poor mind . His neck ached under it of nights . ` Thine is a sickness uncommon in youth these days : since young folk have given up tending their betters . The remedy is sleep , and certain drugs , ' said the Sahiba ; and he was glad to give himself up to the blankness that half menaced and half soothed him . She brewed drinks , in some mysterious Asiatic equivalent to the still-room -- drenches that smelt pestilently and tasted worse .
She stood over XXXXX till they went down , and inquired exhaustively after they had come up .
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