Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom 'rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories Rudyard Kipling

Kitty's Arab had gone THROUGH the 'rickshaw: so that my first hope that some woman marvelously like Mrs. Wessington had hired the carriage and the coolies with their old livery was lost. Again and again I went round this treadmill of thought; and again and again gave up baffled and in despair. The voice was as inexplicable as the apparition. I had originally some wild notion of confiding it all to Kitty; of begging her to marry me at once; and in her arms defying the ghostly occupant of the 'rickshaw. "After all," I argued, "the presence of the 'rickshaw is in itself enough to prove the existence of a spectral illusion. One may see ghosts of men and women, but surely never of coolies and carriages. The whole thing is absurd Fancy the ghost of a hill-man!" Next morning I sent a penitent note to Kitty, imploring her to overlook my strange conduct of the previous afternoon. . . . This volume contains Kipling's chilling classic, "The Phantom 'Rickshaw," and four other masterpieces of the macabre, including "My Own True Ghost Story," "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes," "The Man Who Would Be King," "'The Finest Story in the World.'"