the banker said , appalled . ' I follow the Law -- the Most Excellent Law . So it was the Gods that made Gunga . What like of Gods were they ? ' The carriage looked at him in amazement . It was inconceivable that anyone should be ignorant of Gunga . ` What -- what is thy God ? ' said the money-lender at last . ` Hear ! ' said the lama , shifting the rosary to his hand . ` Hear : for I speak of Him now ! O people of Hind , listen ! ' He began in Urdu the tale of the Lord Buddha , but , borne by his own thoughts , slid into Tibetan and long-droned texts from a Chinese book of the Buddha 's life . The gentle , tolerant folk looked on reverently . All India is full of holy men stammering gospels in strange tongues ; shaken and consumed in the fires of their own zeal ; dreamers , babblers , and visionaries : as it has been from the beginning and will continue to the end . ` Um ! ' said the soldier of the Ludhiana Sikhs . ` There was a Mohammedan regiment lay next to us at the Pirzai Kotal , and a priest of theirs -- he was , as I remember , a naik -- when the fit was on him , spake prophecies . But the mad all are in God 's keeping . His officers overlooked much in that man . '
The XXXXX fell back on Urdu , remembering that he was in a strange land .
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