` What are the letters that the fat priest is waving before the Colonel ? Stand behind the stallion as though looking at my bridle ! ' said Mahbub Ali . ' A letter from my lama which he wrote from Jagadhir Road , saying that he will pay three hundred rupees by the year for my schooling . ' ` Oho ! Is old Red Hat of that sort ? At which school ? ' ` God knows . I think in Nucklao . ' ` Yes . There is a big school there for the sons of Sahibs -- and half-Sahibs . I have seen it when I sell horses there . So the lama also loved the Friend of all the World ? ' ` Ay ; and he did not tell lies , or return me to captivity . ' ` Small wonder the Padre does not know how to unravel the thread . How fast he talks to the Colonel Sahib ! ' Mahbub Ali chuckled . ` By Allah ! ' the keen eyes swept the veranda for an Instant -- ` thy lama has sent what to me looks like a note of hand . I have had some few dealings in hoondis .
The Colonel XXXXX is looking at it . '
Ay Nucklao Oho Padre Red Sahib Sahibs half-Sahibs hoondis lama