And for my merit that I had acquired I gain yet another sign . ' He put his hand in his bosom , and drew forth the Wheel of Life . ` Look ! I considered this after I had meditated . There remains untorn by the idolater no more than the breadth of my fingernail . ' ' I see . ' ` So much , then , is the span of my life in this body . I have served the Wheel all my days . Now the Wheel serves me . But for the merit I have acquired in guiding thee upon the Way , there would have been added to me yet another life ere I had found my River . Is it plain , chela ? ' Kim stared at the brutally disfigured chart . From left to right diagonally the rent ran -- from the Eleventh House where Desire gives birth to the Child -LRB- as it is drawn by Tibetans -RRB- -- across the human and animal worlds , to the Fifth House -- the empty House of the Senses . The logic was unanswerable . ` Before our Lord won Enlightenment ' -- the lama folded all away with reverence -- ` He was tempted . I too have been tempted , but it is finished . The Arrow fell in the Plains -- not in the Hills . Therefore , what make we here ? ' ` Shall we at least wait for the hakim ? ' ' I know how long I shall live in this body .
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