Kim Kim

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by all possibility for an exciting adventure, Kim attached himself to the lama as his chela. His adventures began almost at once. That night, at the edge of Lahore, Mahubub Ali, a horse trader, gave Kim a cryptic message to deliver to a British author in Umballa. What Kim did not know was that Mahbub was a member of the British Secret Service. He delivered the message as directed, and then lay in the grass and watched and listened until he learned that his message meant that eight thousand men would go to war. Out on the big road the lama and Kim encountered many people of all sorts. Conversation was easy. One group in particular interested Kim, an old lady traveling in a family bullcock cart attended by a retinue of eight men. Kim and the Lama attached themselves to her party. Towards the evening they saw a group of soldiers making camp. It was the Maverick regiment. Kim, whose horoscope said that his life would be changed at the sign of a red bull in a field of green, was ...

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two boys, he gave the drummer a beating and began talking to Kim. While they were thus engaged, Colonel Creighton came up and learned from Ali, in an indirect way, that Kim would be, when educated a valuable member of the Secret Service. At last Kim was on his way to Saint Xavier's. Near the school he spied the lama who had been waiting a day and a half to see him. They agreed to see each other often. Kim was an apt pupil but he disliked being wrapped up in classrooms and dormitories. When vacation time came he went to Umballa and persuaded Ali to let him return to the road until school reopened. Traveling with Ali, he played the part of horse boy and saved the trader's life when he ...

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