How can I take thee away , or account for thy disappearing if I set thee down and let thee run off into the crops ? They would put me in jail . Be patient . Once a Sahib , always a Sahib . When thou art a man -- who knows ? -- thou wilt be grateful to Mahbub Ali . ' ` Take me beyond their sentries where I can change this red . Give me money and I will go to Benares and be with my lama again . I do not want to be a Sahib , and remember I did deliver that message . ' The stallion bounded wildly . Mahbub Ali had incautiously driven home the sharp-edged stirrup . -LRB- He was not the new sort of fluent horse-dealer who wears English boots and spurs . -RRB- Kim drew his own conclusions from that betrayal . ` That was a small matter . It lay on the straight road to Benares . I and the Sahib have by this time forgotten it . I send so many letters and messages to men who ask questions about horses , I can not well remember one from the other . Was it some matter of a bay mare that Peters Sahib wished the pedigree of ? ' Kim saw the trap at once . If he had said ` bay mare ' Mahbub would have known by his very readiness to fall in with the amendment that the boy suspected something .
XXXXX replied therefore : ` Bay mare .
Ali Benares English Kim Mahbub Sahib fall horse-dealer lama sentries