I do not want to be a Sahib , and remember I did deliver that message . ' The stallion bounded wildly . Mahbub Ali had incautiously driven home the sharp-edged stirrup . -LRB- He was not the new sort of fluent horse-dealer who wears English boots and spurs . -RRB- Kim drew his own conclusions from that betrayal . ` That was a small matter . It lay on the straight road to Benares . I and the Sahib have by this time forgotten it . I send so many letters and messages to men who ask questions about horses , I can not well remember one from the other . Was it some matter of a bay mare that Peters Sahib wished the pedigree of ? ' Kim saw the trap at once . If he had said ` bay mare ' Mahbub would have known by his very readiness to fall in with the amendment that the boy suspected something . Kim replied therefore : ` Bay mare . No . I do not forget my messages thus . It was a white stallion . ' ` Ay , so it was . A white Arab stallion . But thou didst write `` bay mare '' to me . ' ` Who cares to tell truth to a letter-writer ? '
Kim answered , feeling XXXXX 's palm on his heart .
Ali Arab Ay Benares English Kim Mahbub Sahib fall horse-dealer