How comes it this is true ? ' ` What matter , Holy One ? -- but remember it is only for a night or two . Remember , I can change swiftly . It will all be as it was when I first spoke to thee under Zam-Zammah the great gun -- ' ` As a boy in the dress of white men -- when I first went to the Wonder House . And a second time thou wast a Hindu . What shall the third incarnation be ? ' He chuckled drearily . ` Ah , chela , thou has done a wrong to an old man because my heart went out to thee . ' ` And mine to thee . But how could I know that the Red Bull would bring me to this business ? ' The lama covered his face afresh , and nervously rattled the rosary . Kim squatted beside him and laid hold upon a fold of his clothing . ` Now it is understood that the boy is a Sahib ? ' he went on in a muffled tone . ` Such a Sahib as was he who kept the images in the Wonder House . ' The lama 's experience of white men was limited . He seemed to be repeating a lesson . ` So then it is not seemly that he should do other than as the Sahibs do . He must go back to his own people . '
` For a day and a night and a day , ' XXXXX pleaded .
Hindu Kim Red Sahib Sahibs Zam-Zammah chela first lama third