The jackal is the head that whimpers andyelps and
guzzles dead stuff that the lion leaves.
I know damned well Rammywouldnt make that grade and
leave me, if positions were reversed. Over beyond the riverwas another range of
mountains, snow-clad, and with no trail visible. I sentyou a warning, but you did
not understand it entirely; in fact,you hardly understood at all.
Get into hisdream and let him see that what he
fears is but the other side ofwhat he loves. The rest of the cave is partly porphyry
and partly limestone. I wished like the deuce you were there to explain why wewere
led to that place and how to get swag. He was in the hands of little dugpas, of the
sort whoaspire to be big ones but lack imagination.
The whole universe seemsfull of evil to
him.
I wished like the deuce you were there to explain
why wewere led to that place and how to get swag. Nevertheless, he very likely saved
your life and Ramsdens. IfI should ask him he would go the limit. I sat down where
he could not see me, near his head, as Lhatenhad done, and began to
moan.
On the other hand, no argument of his wasgoing to
make me stand in his way.
As I recall it, no wind blew in through the door
when it was openedand admitted Rao Singh.
It isfor you, or for any one else, to agree or not
as you see fit.
Once, I believe, Rao Singh came, although I would
not swear I wasnot dreaming.
Plus was plus; minuswas minus; there was no
borderland of doubt between them.
You have already come a long way into
Tibet.
In all ways possible, Lhatens voice
repeated.
Grim pulled up the yak-skin bench and sat beside
me. I pretended not to hear him and sobbed on, inserting a crescendobar or two
suggestive of hysteria. Like any true musician, or poet, or sculptor, we are always
doingour best to stir humanity. Grim thoughthe used Tibetan; I am nearly sure he
spoke Hindi.
That days march was the hardest of them all.