` Thy chela , ' said Kim simply , sitting on his heels . ' I have never seen anyone like to thee in all this my life . I go with thee to Benares . And , too , I think that so old a man as thou , speaking the truth to chance-met people at dusk , is in great need of a disciple . ' ` But the River -- the River of the Arrow ? ' ` Oh , that I heard when thou wast speaking to the Englishman . I lay against the door . ' The lama sighed . ' I thought thou hadst been a guide permitted . Such things fall sometimes -- but I am not worthy . Thou dost not , then , know the River ? ' ` Not I , ' Kim laughed uneasily . ' I go to look for -- for a bull -- a Red . Bull on a green field who shall help me . ' Boylike , if an acquaintance had a scheme , Kim was quite ready with one of his own ; and , boylike , he had really thought for as much as twenty minutes at a time of his father 's prophecy . ` To what , child ? ' said the lama . ` God knows , but so my father told me ' . I heard thy talk in the Wonder House of all those new strange places in the Hills , and if one so old and so little -- so used to truth-telling -- may go out for the small matter of a river , it seemed to me that I too must go a-travelling . If it is our fate to find those things we shall find them -- thou , thy River ; and I , my Bull , and the Strong Pillars and some other matters that I forget . '
` It is not pillars but a Wheel from which I would be free , ' said the XXXXX .
Benares Boylike Hills Red River a-travelling chela lama minutes truth-telling