` No -- no -- no , indeed , ' cried the farmer , fearful lest the master should be minded to improve on the pupil . E23 , with relaxed mouth , gave himself up to the opium that is meat , tobacco , and medicine to the spent Asiatic . So , in a silence of awe and great miscomprehension , they slid into Delhi about lamp-lighting time . Chapter 12 Who hath desired the Sea -- the sight of salt-water unbounded ? The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded ? The sleek-barrelled swell before storm -- grey , foamless , enormous , and growing ? Stark calm on the lap of the Line -- or the crazy-eyed hurricane blowing ? His Sea in no showing the same -- his Sea and the same ` neath all showing -- His Sea that his being fulfils ? So and no otherwise -- so and no otherwise hill-men desire their Hills ! The Sea and the Hills . ' I have found my heart again , ' said E23 , under cover of the platform 's tumult . ` Hunger and fear make men dazed , or I might have thought of this escape before . I was right . They come to hunt for me . Thou hast saved my head . ' A group of yellow-trousered Punjab policemen , headed by a hot and perspiring young Englishman , parted the crowd about the carriages . Behind them , inconspicuous as a cat , ambled a small fat person who looked like a lawyer 's tout . ` See the young Sahib reading from a paper . My description is in his hand , ' said E23 . ` Thev go carriage by carriage , like fisher-folk netting a pool . '
When the procession reached their compartment , XXXXX was counting his beads with a steady jerk of the wrist ; while Kim jeered at him for being so drugged as to have lost the ringed fire-tongs which are the Saddhu 's distinguishing mark .
Delhi E23 Englishman Sahib crash escape hurricane miscomprehension storm tobacco