Kipling RudyardABAA
Kipling RudyardABAA
The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales
19142308454New York: American Publishers Corporation 1914. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No publisher date circa 1914. No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper rear hinge broken. We have more books available by this author!. 229 pp. "After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla the narrator Jack repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs. Wessington continually reappears in Jack's life begging him to reconsider insisting that it was all just a mistake. But Jack wants nothing to do with her and continues to spurn her. Eventually Mrs. Wessington dies much to Jack's relief. However some time thereafter he sees her old rickshaw and assumes that someone has bought it. Then to his astonishment the rickshaw and the men pulling it pass through a horse revealing themselves to be phantoms bearing the departed ghost of Mrs. Wessington. This leads Jack into increasingly erratic behavior which he tries to cover up by concocting increasingly elaborate lies to assuage Kitty's suspicions. Eventually a Dr. Heatherlegh takes him in supposing the visions to be the result of disease or madness. Despite their efforts Kitty and her family become increasingly suspicious and eventually call off the engagement. Jack loses hope and begins wandering the city aimlessly accompanied by the ghost of Mrs. Wessington. American Publishers Corporation hardcover books
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