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“Tum-mut? You drunk? You mustn’t bang about as though Delhi station belonged to you, my friend.” E.23, not moving a muscle of his countenance, answered with a stream of the filthiest abuse, at which Kim naturally rejoiced. It reminded him of the drummer-boys and the barrack-sweepers at Umballa in the terrible time of his first schooling.
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This is from the twelfth chapter of Kim. Having left school and trained as an intelligence agent, Kim is on a railway journey with his lama, He encountered another agent, E23, who is in flight from enemies seeking to get him arrested on a trumped up charge and put an end to him. Kim saves his life by disguising him as a saddhu, a holy man. On Delhi station they encounter Strickland, a police superimtendent, and als a senior figure in in intelligence. E23 deliberately gets himself arrested and safe into Strickland’s -keeping.
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