Those two boys will watch your slumbers . ' Chapter 6 Now I remember comrades -- Old playmates on new seas -- Whenas we traded orpiment Among the savages . Ten thousand leagues to southward , And thirty years removed -- They knew not noble Valdez , But me they knew and loved . Song of Diego Valdez . Very early in the morning the white tents came down and disappeared as the Mavericks took a side-road to Umballa . It did not skirt the resting-place , and Kim , trudging beside a baggage-cart under fire of comments from soldiers ' wives , was not so confident as overnight . He discovered that he was closely watched -- Father Victor on the one side , and Mr Bennett on the other . In the forenoon the column checked . A camel-orderly handed the Colonel a letter . He read it , and spoke to a Major . Half a mile in the rear , Kim heard a hoarse and joyful clamour rolling down on him through the thick dust . Then someone beat him on the back , crying : ` Tell us how ye knew , ye little limb of Satan ? Father dear , see if ye can make him tell . ' A pony ranged alongside , and he was hauled on to the priest 's saddlebow . ` Now , my son , your prophecy of last night has come true . Our orders are to entrain at Umballa for the Front tomorrow . ' ` What is thatt ? ' said Kim , for ` front ' and ` entrain ' were newish words to him . ` We are going to `` thee War , '' as you called it . ' ` Of course you are going to thee War .
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