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There was only one Second-class on the train. I slipped the window and looked down upon a flaming red beard, half covered by a railway rug. That was my man, fast asleep, and I dug him gently in the ribs. |
This is from “The Man Who Would Be King” which first appeared in The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (Volume Five of the Indian Railway Library, published by Wheelers of Allahabad in 1888) and collected in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories in 1895, and in numerous later editions of that collection. … some two years later, on a hot summer’s night, Carnehan creeps into the journalist’s office, a broken man, crippled and in rags, and tells an amazing story… |
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