![]() ![]() Lurgan also tells Kim that the little Hindu boy wants to stab or poison Kim, and that Lurgan has put him in a time-out for his bad behavior. ![]() The next morning, Lurgan shakes Kim's hand-he seems impressed by Kim's creativity in destroying the box that was bothering him.Kim stuffs his jacket into the noisy box and then goes back to sleep.It turns out that the voices are coming from a box (and Kipling doesn't actually say so, but this box sounds a lot like a wax cylinder player, an early version of a record player).He keeps thinking he hears his name, and then he hears something like voices.So Kim stops hitting the Hindu boy, at least for now.Kim asks out loud if the Hindu boy has been ordered not to speak to Kim Lurgan unexpectedly answers from behind Kim that yes, he has given orders that the boy can't speak to Kim.When the Hindu boy doesn't answer, Kim hits him.He asks the small Hindu boy (who apparently lives here) if that black-bearded guy is Lurgan.The black-bearded man tells Kim that he will have to sleep in this room tonight, and Kim realizes that the black-bearded man is testing to see if he will become frightened of all of these strange and unfamiliar things.His room is filled with Tibetan devil dance masks and Japanese suits of armor.He calls to a small Hindu boy at the side of the road to demand directions to Lurgan's house once there, Kim finds a man with a black beard and a green visor counting pearls and putting them on a string. ![]()
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