Vengeance ! Bonzes ! ' Hurree crouched lower . The war was breaking out afresh . ` Have you no consideration for our loss ? The baggage ! The baggage ! ' He could hear the speaker literally dancing on the grass . ` Everything we bore ! Everything we have secured ! Our gains ! Eight months ' work ! Do you know what that means ? `` Decidedly it is we who can deal with Orientals ! '' Oh , you have done well . ' They fell to it in several tongues , and Hurree smiled . Kim was with the kiltas , and in the kiltas lay eight months of good diplomacy . There was no means of communicating with the boy , but he could be trusted . For the rest , Hurree could so stage-manage the journey through the hills that Hilas , Bunar , and four hundred miles of hill-roads should tell the tale for a generation . Men who can not control their own coolies are little respected in the Hills , and the hillman has a very keen sense of humour .
` If I had done it myself , ' thought XXXXX , ` it would not have been better ; and , by Jove , now I think of it , of course I arranged it myself .
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