The fat fool is of one mind and the camel-like one of another . But that is no odds . I may spend one night here and perhaps the next . It has happened before . Then I will run away and return to thee . ' ` But tell them that thou art my chela . Tell them how thou didst come to me when I was faint and bewildered . Tell them of our Search , and they will surely let thee go now . ' ' I have already told them . They laugh , and they talk of the police . ' ` What are you saying ? ' asked Mr Bennett . ` Oah . He only says that if you do not let me go it will stop him in his business -- his ur-gent private af-fairs . ' This last was a reminiscence of some talk with a Eurasian clerk in the Canal Department , but it only drew a smile , which nettled him . ` And if you did know what his business was you would not be in such a beastly hurry to interfere . ' ` What is it then ? ' said Father Victor , not without feeling , as he watched the lama 's face . ` There is a River in this country which he wishes to find so verree much . It was put out by an Arrow which -- ' Kim tapped his foot impatiently as he translated in his own mind from the vernacular to his clumsy English .
` XXXXX , it was made by our Lord God Buddha , you know , and if you wash there you are washed away from all your sins and made as white as cotton-wool . '
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