Thou art a miracle-worker -- I know it . ' ` Show me the cuts . ' Kim bent over the Mahratta 's neck , his heart nearly choking him ; for this was the Great Game with a vengeance . ` Now , tell thy tale swiftly , brother , while I say a charm . ' ' I come from the South , where my work lay . One of us they slew by the roadside . Hast thou heard ? ' Kim shook his head . He , of course , knew nothing of E 's predecessor , slain down South in the habit of an Arab trader . ` Having found a certain letter which I was sent to seek , I came away . I escaped from the city and ran to Mhow . So sure was I that none knew , I did not change my face . At Mhow a woman brought charge against me of theft of jewellery in that city which I had left . Then I saw the cry was out against me . I ran from Mhow by night , bribing the police , who had been bribed to hand me over without question to my enemies in the South . Then I lay in old Chitor city a week , a penitent in a temple , but I could not get rid of the letter which was my charge . I buried it under the Queen 's Stone , at Chitor , in the place known to us all . ' Kim did not know , but not for worlds would he have broken the thread . ` At Chitor , look you , I was all in Kings ' country ; for Kotah to the east is beyond the Queen 's law , and east again lie Jaipur and Gwalior . Neither love spies , and there is no justice .
I was hunted like a wet jackal ; but I broke through at Bandakui , where I heard there was a charge against me of murder in the city I had XXXXX -- of the murder of a boy .
Chitor Jaipur Kim Kotah Queen South choking jewellery left slew