Mahbub Ali comes to Kim with a message from Creighton.

He and Mahbub Ali wind up in Simla (which, as we mentioned in the last chapter, the British Indian government made its summer capital).

Once again Kim is happy as a clam traveling along the roads of India.

Mahbub Ali isn't super pleased, but he now realizes that Kim always has a price.

Also, he didn't need money for sweets then.

Kim didn't need to tell him, because the man's going to jail anyway.

Mahbub Ali asks why Kim didn't tell him this before.

For a small bribe, Kim tells Mahbub Ali that the second assassin was the same man who searched Mahbub Ali back in Umballa in Chapter 3.

(For more on this problematic idea, check out our thoughts on race and spirituality in the 'Themes' section.).

Kim's great talent is that he can be a Sahib (in other words, a white person) among Sahibs, but he can also join in equally well with Indians of all faiths.As Kim travels with Mahbub Ali's people to Simla, Mahbub Ali praises him for realizing that it is important to know the right thing to say to each person.Mahbub Ali figures that they'll each get about ten years in prison.One of the assassins drew a gun, but they were both knocked unconscious by the Englishmen.Later, Kim tells Mahbub Ali about two Englishmen who got into a fight with these two disguised assassins.

Mahbub Ali spots the local official (Barton) and his friend Young in a fire engine heading off to surprise the hiding men.Mahbub Ali decides to use English justice to get what he wants, so he goes to a local official and plays dumb, dropping hints about two men hiding under a truck who maybe want to steal something.Mahbub Ali sends Kim off to lie down he is prepared.He finds Mahbub Ali preparing to leave, and warns him that there are two men waiting to shoot him.

Everyone in the camp tells him to shut up, and he slips away.

Kim pretends to wake up with a loud nightmare.

Kim spends the night among the servants pretending to a horseman employed by Mahbub Ali, and as he drifts off to sleep, he overhears two people planning to try and kill Mahbub Ali.Xavier's until he is ready for whatever job Creighton is planning for him. And Kim finally admits that Mahbub Ali made the right decision in leaving Kim at the school.Mahbub Ali agrees that both he and Kim owe each other their lives.Kim finally tells Mahbub Ali all about that night in Umballa with the message-about seeing the thieves searching Mahbub Ali's drunken, passed out body for the message and about going to Creighton's house to deliver Mahbub Ali's news.Kim knows all of this already-he knows that Creighton has some kind of job for him.Xavier's, and lets slip that Creighton has been spending money on Kim because he has a plan in mind. Mahbub Ali wants to know all about Kim's escape from St.

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