Kim by Rudyard Kipling — Read

Now I remember comrades -- / Old playmates on new seas -- / Whenas we traded orpiment / Among the savages. / Ten thousand leagues to southward, / And thirty years removed -- / They knew not noble Valdez, / But me they knew and loved. / Song of Diego Valdez

Very early in the morning the white tents came down and disappeared as the Mavericks took a side-road to Umballa. It did not skirt the resting-place, and Kim, trudging beside a baggage-cart under fire of comments from soldiers' wives, was not so confident as overnight. He discovered that he was closely watched -- Father Victor on the one side, and Mr. Bennett on the other.