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-"Have you not heard--hasn't the Dalai Lama himself heard--that a new king is coming into the world? I am he! I've come to rule the world for a while! My name is--Shadak Khan! My name is--Captain Trouble!"
Something of this talk must have reached the crowd down the hill. It may have done this partly through that curious intuition of crowds-- especially of crowds already incandescent and annealed by excitement. Moon Face, the messenger, may have spread something of it as he went down seeking help for the wounded man.