Excerpt: ...the trail sank into hollows between the hills, and Gunpat Rao rolled forward. Pitch and roll, pitch and roll-as many movements as a solar system and the painful illusion of slowness over all. Often in Skag's nostrils one of the subtlest of all scents made itself known, but most elusively-a suggestion of shocking power-like an instant's glimpse into another dimension. If you answer at all to an expression which at best only intimates-the smell of living dust-you will have something of the thing that Skag sensed ...
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Excerpt: ...the trail sank into hollows between the hills, and Gunpat Rao rolled forward. Pitch and roll, pitch and roll-as many movements as a solar system and the painful illusion of slowness over all. Often in Skag's nostrils one of the subtlest of all scents made itself known, but most elusively-a suggestion of shocking power-like an instant's glimpse into another dimension. If you answer at all to an expression which at best only intimates-the smell of living dust-you will have something of the thing that Skag sensed in the emanation of Gunpat Rao, warming to action. Occasionally as they crossed the streams there was delay in finding the trail on the other side. Once in the dark after a ford, when Nels had rushed along the left bank to find the scent, Gunpat Rao plunged straight on to the right without waiting; and the mahout sang his praises with low but fiery intensity: "He is coming. He is coming into his own!" "What do you mean, Chakkra? Make it clear to me who have not many words of Hindi-" "The meaning of our journey appears to him, Sahib; from our minds, from the thief ahead and from the great dog, -the thing that we do is appearing to him. He knows the way-see-" Nels had come in from the lateral and found that Gunpat Rao was right. An amazing point to Skag, this. The great head before him, with Chakkra's legs dangling behind the ears, had grasped something of the urge of their chase. A vast and mysterious mechanism was locked in the great grey skull. Actually Gunpat Rao seemed to laugh that he had shown the way to Nels. "You don't mean, Chakkra, that he goes into the silence like a holy man?" "It is like." Skag had seen something of this in his India-the yogi men shutting their eyes and bowing their heads and seeming to sink their consciousness into themselves, in order to ascertain some fact without and afar off. "Our lord gives his mind to the matter and the truth unfolds-" Chakkra added. "Will the other elephant travel...
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