Yes . ' ` And upon the rail nearest to the road upon the right-hand side -- looking up the line thus . But as regards Lutuf Ullah -- a tall man with a broken nose , and a Persian greyhound Aie ! ' The boy had hurried off to wake up a young and enthusiastic policeman ; for , as he said , the Railway had suffered much from depredations in the goods-yard . Mahbub Ali chuckled in his dyed beard . ` They will walk in their boots , making a noise , and then they will wonder why there are no fakirs . They are very clever boys -- Barton Sahib and Young Sahib . ' He waited idly for a few minutes , expecting to see them hurry up the line girt for action . A light engine slid through the station , and he caught a glimpse of young Barton in the cab . ' I did that child an injustice . He is not altogether a fool , ' said Mahbub Ali . ` To take a fire-carriage for a thief is a new game ! ' When Mahbub Ali came to his camp in the dawn , no one thought it worth while to tell him any news of the night . No one , at least , but one small horseboy , newly advanced to the great man 's service , whom Mahbub called to his tiny tent to assist in some packing . ` It is all known to me , ' whispered Kim , bending above saddlebags . ` Two Sahibs came up on a te-train . I was running to and fro in the dark on this side of the trucks as the te-train moved up and down slowly . They fell upon two men sitting under this truck -- Hajji , what shall I do with this lump of tobacco ? Wrap it in paper and put it under the salt-bag ? Yes -- and struck them down .
But one man struck at a Sahib with a fakir 's buck 's horn ' -LRB- XXXXX meant the conjoined black-buck horns , which are a fakir 's sole temporal weapon -RRB- -- ` the blood came .
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