{5809}{5866}l've come back. {5962}{6056}Give me a drink, Brother Kipling. {6214}{6278}Don't you know me? {6282}{6374}No. l don't know you. {6406}{6453}Who are you? {6476}{6517}What can l do for you? {6521}{6611}l told you. Give me a drink. {7394}{7524}lt was all settled.|Right here, in this office. {7573}{7614}Remember? {7618}{7760}Danny and me signed the contract|and you witnessed it. {7767}{7807}You... {7851}{7901}...stood over there. {7954}{8003}l stood there. {8014}{8082}And Daniel stood here. {8124}{8161}Remember? {8208}{8246}Carnehan! {8305}{8405}Peachy Taliaferro Carnehan. {8409}{8456}Of course. {8461}{8591}Keep looking at me. lt helps|to keep my soul f rom flying off. {8595}{8636}Carnehan! {8640}{8722}The same, and not the same,|who sat beside you... {8727}{8830}...in a first-class carriage|on the train to Marwar Junction... {8835}{8942}...three summers|and a thousand years ago. {9158}{9209}Jodhpur, please. {9717}{9755}Blast! {10218}{10273}All aboard! {12170}{12210}May l? {12226}{12369}Riding in this ashcart is like being|kicked by a mule every 10 minutes! {12962}{13011}Mr. Clutterbury Das. {13015}{13128}Failed entrance examination,|Calcutta University, 1863. {13133}{13229}Writer of correspondence|for the illiterate general public. {13233}{13263}Shut up! {13268}{13309}Thank you, sir. {14534}{14620}-Out of the window, Babu!|-Thank you, sir. {14649}{14717}Outside, you inky-fingered thief! {14721}{14795}-l hope you break your neck!|-Thank you, sir. {14799}{14891}-You might have killed him!|-Serves him right if l had! {14898}{15003}-We're not making five miles an hour.|-But why? {15043}{15152}-l caught him stealing your watch.|-My watch? {15177}{15236}l say, it is my watch! {15267}{15306}Well! {15350}{15422}l'm very much obliged to you, Mr...? {15446}{15547}Carnehan. Former gunnery sergeant|in Her Majesty's Forces. {15551}{15586}Mine's Kipling. {15595}{15685}-May l offer you a drink?|-l don't mind if l do. {15822}{15893}You've knocked about lndia a bit,|l take it. {15897}{16007}You can say that twice!|On foot, on horseback and on camel. {16011}{16095}-You don't look green, either.|-l was born in lndia. {16099}{16214}Great country, or was till bureaucrats|took over and ruined everything. {16220}{16281}-l hope you're not one of them!|-No. {16286}{16316}l didn't think so. {16321}{16407}They usually have long noses|for looking down at you. {16411}{16492}And l've yet to have|one of them offer me a drink! {16529}{16613}-Glenlivet, 12 years old.|-You've an educated taste. {16617}{16719}l have an educated taste in whiskey,|women, waistcoats and bills of fare. {16723}{16788}But l've had few chances|to ex ercise it. {16792}{16863}Because them that governs|make up laws... {16867}{16936}...to stop men like us|f rom getting anywhere. {16940}{17006}Whose loss is it?|England's, of course! {17010}{17119}lf we were unrestrained, she wouldn't|get 70 millions in revenue... {17123}{17233}-...it would be 700 millions! Right?|-l quite agree, yes. {17242}{17318}-Where are you heading for?|-Jodhpur. {17322}{17398}-Will you return on this line?|-ln 10 days. {17402}{17486}Can you make it eight?|l have a message for a man... {17491}{17571}...travelling through Marwar Junction|on the 24th. {17575}{17650}He expects to meet|but l have urgent business. {17654}{17715}l'm sorry, l can't help you there. {17720}{17779}Supposing l was to ask you... {17784}{17895}...as a stranger going to the West|to seek for that which was lost. {17899}{17954}What would you say then? {17959}{18026}l should answer,|where do you come f rom? {18030}{18054}From the East. {18059}{18153}l am hoping that you will give|my message on the square... {18157}{18214}...for the sake of the widow's son. {18236}{18353}-Which lodge do you hail f rom?|-Travelling Lodge 3276, Fore and Fit. {18357}{18469}The Queen's Own Royal Loyal Light|lnfantry, Regimental District 329A. {18481}{18545}-To whom is the message?|-Daniel Dravot. {18549}{18626}-Dravot.|-A big man with long gray sideboards. {18630}{18656}A great swell. {18660}{18744}You'll find him|in a first-class compartment. {18749}{18777}Don't be af raid. {18782}{18895}Slip the window down and say,|'' Peachy's gone south for the week.'' {18902}{19004}-'' Peachy's gone south for the week.''|-Yes, and he'll tumble. {19008}{19123}Well, l'll be getting off now|before we reach the station. {19196}{19263}By the way, Brother Carnehan.... {19282}{19364}l missed my watch|in the station at Lahore... {19368}{19433}...before boarding the train. {19437}{19517}How was l to know you were a Mason? {20150}{20192}What's this? {20196}{20260}God's holy trousers!|Tickets again? {20264}{20317}ls your name Dravot, sir? {20396}{20531}l'm to say that Peachy|has gone south for the week. {20680}{20735}He's gone south for the week. {20740}{20820}Did he say l'd give anything for this?|l won't. {20824}{20888}-No, he didn't.|-Then why did you do it? {20892}{20965}For the sake of the widow's son. {21034}{21091}-He said south, did he?|-Yes. {21095}{21152}Then that'll be Degumber. {21156}{21222}Since you're Peachy's pal,|l'll tell you. {21226}{21349}We're gonna put the screw on the rajah|for what he did to his mother-in-law. {21354}{21436}Filled her with peppers|and flogged her to death. {21458}{21519}You mean you intend to blackmail him? {21524}{21658}You wouldn't get out alive! lf they|don't cut your throat, they'll poison you. {21662}{21743}Both's been tried.|Peachy and me don't kill easy! {21747}{21835}The rajah's an independent ruler.|He answers to nobody. {21840}{21899}How will you put the screw on him? {21903}{21997}By telling him we're correspondents|for The Northern Star. {22002}{22099}You can't! You can't do that! {22103}{22208}Because l am the correspondent|of The Northern Star! {22219}{22322}-You what?|-l'm the correspondent! {22326}{22408}Eh? What did you say, brother? {22542}{22632}As you know,|we took them at the Degumber border... {22636}{22710}...so there's a question|of jurisdiction. {22714}{22806}But a charge of conspiracy|to blackmail might be brought. {22810}{22922}l didn't lay this information before|you as a criminal prosecution. {22926}{22975}Only to save their lives. {22979}{23083}May l ask what particular interest|you have in these scoundrels? {23087}{23175}Well, they happen to be... {23180}{23231}...Freemasons. Like myself. {23235}{23336}Freemasons? Them? l'd think|you'd strike them off your roll! {23340}{23405}Oh, once a Mason, always a Mason. {23409}{23537}Never could understand how|pukka chaps like you can go about... {23541}{23648}...wearing aprons and sashes|and shaking hands with strangers. {23657}{23701}What is Masonry, Kipling? {23705}{23748}lt's an ancient order... {23752}{23857}...dedicated to the brotherhood|of man, under the eye of God. {23865}{23976}We should have left that behind|in England. lt can never work here. {23980}{24072}There are tales that it did work here,|before we came. {24076}{24142}Some audacious scholars|can trace it... {24146}{24209}...to the builders|of Solomon's Temple. {24213}{24358}-Old wives' tales, l suspect.|-Yes, in all likelihood, sir. {24362}{24501}Well, let's have a look|at your lodge brothers. {24605}{24673}Right turn. {24772}{24808}Halt. {24818}{24859}Hats off! {24896}{24953}You men are not under arrest... {24957}{25086}...thanks to Mr. Kipling, who's a real|correspondent for The Northern Star. {25091}{25192}But both of you richly deserve|to be in jail. {25200}{25259}l have your records before me. {25264}{25345}There's everything|f rom smuggling to swindling... {25349}{25431}...receiving stolen goods|and barefaced blackmail! {25436}{25486}l resent the accusation. {25490}{25580}lt is blackmail to threaten|to publish information. {25585}{25688}What blackmail is there in accepting|a retainer to keep it out? {25692}{25745}How did you propose to do that? {25750}{25840}Telling the editor what l know|about his sister... {25845}{25911}...and a certain government official. {25915}{26018}Let him put that in his paper|if he has need of news! {26110}{26192}You should have gone home|after your army service. {26196}{26276}To what? A porter's uniform|outside a restaurant? {26280}{26383}Tips for closing cab doors|on civilians and their blowzy women? {26387}{26468}Not for us, after watching|Af ghans take command... {26472}{26554}-...when the officers had copped it!|-Well said! {26559}{26689}There may be no criminal charges, but|l'll see these files reach Calcutta... {26693}{26793}...with the advice you be|deported as political undesirables. {26797}{26865}Detriments to the empire and the raj. {26869}{26930}Detriments you call us? Detriments? {26934}{27073}Detriments like us built this bloody|empire and the izzat of the raj! {27078}{27123}Hats on! {27132}{27177}About turn! {27187}{27257}By the left, quick march! {27275}{27349}Left turn! {27464}{27597}There's no need to let any of this|get into the Star, l take it, Kipling? {27601}{27647}No, no, no. {27778}{27816}Copy. {28549}{28645}My God! You two!|What do you want this time? {28649}{28739}-We want to ask you a favour.|-Another favour? {28744}{28851}Calm down, we've never taken|advantage of a fellow in the craft. {28855}{28923}We don't want money,|just a little time... {28927}{29007}...a look at a book or two,|a study of your maps. {29011}{29087}We'll take a drink, but if not,|we won't mind. {29091}{29192}Peachy is as sober as l am.|lt's important you have no doubts. {29198}{29356}So we'll take one of your cigars|apiece, and you shall watch us... {29360}{29402}...light up. {29660}{29686}And now, sir... {29691}{29810}...let me introduce you to Brother|Peachy Carnehan, which is him... {29814}{29927}...and Brother Daniel Dravot,|which is l. {29941}{30048}The less said about our jobs,|the better. We've been most things. {30052}{30173}We've been all over lndia. We know|her ci...
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