While Kim along with the Lama continue on their journey towards Benares and Colonel Creighton along with Bennet lead the Regiment northwards, in Lahore Red Beard receives a message that has been intercepted by Jasmine at Nabob Dinar’s palace. Red Beard takes off with his caravan of horses in order to reach Creighton and deliver the message to him. Along the road to Benares, Kim and the Lama come across a bank of the Ganges River where the British are completing some work for the construction of a bridge that will link Delhi to Calcutta by rail.