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V 10 CENTS A YEAR Subscribers may remit to us in silver or one and two cent stamps. The Cramer-Krasselt Co. 207-209 Grand Avenue MILWAUKEE WIS. P U"'-' THE PNEUMATIC. VOL. XI, JANUABY 1900. No. 1. The Phantom 'Rickshaw. By Rudyard Kipling. PARTI. May no ill dreams disturb my rest, Nor Powers of Darkness me molest. Evening Hymn. 4+ ++++++++++++. +NE of the few advantages that the little Ricketts a box of presents and toys. India has over England is a It is the same everywhere. The men who do great Knowability. After not take the trouble to conceal from you their five years' service a man is opinion that you are an incompetent ass, and directly or indirectly ac­ the women who blacken your character and o quainted with the two or ++++ ++ ++ ++++++ misunderstand your wife's amusements.will work three hundred Chilians in his province, all the themselves to the bone in your behalf if you Messes of ten or twelve Regiments and Batter­ fall sick or into serious trouble. ies, and some fifteen' hundred other people of Heatherlegh, the Doctor, kept, in addition to the non-official caste. In ten years his knowl­ his regular practice, a hospital on his private edge should be doubled, and at the end of twen­ account—an arrangement of loose boxes for In­ ty he knows, or knows something about, every curables, his friend called it—but it was really Englishman in the Empire, and may travel any­ a sort of fitting-up shed for craft that had been where and everywhere without paying hotel- damaged by stress of weather. The weather in bills. India is often sultry, and since the tale of bricks Globe-trotters who expect entertainment as. is,always a fixed quantity, and the only liberty a right have, even within my memory, blunted allowed is permission to work overtime and get this open-heartedness, but none the less to-day, no thanks, men occasionally break down and be­ if you belong to the Inner Circle and are neither come as mixed as the metaphors in this sen­ a Bear nor a Black Sheep, all houses are open tence. to you, and our small world is very, very kind Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever and helpful. Was, and his invariable prescription to all his Ricketfc of Kamartha stayed with Polder of patients is, "lie low, go slow, and keep cool." Kumaon some fifteen years ago. He meant to He says that more men are killed by overwork stay two nights, but was knocked down by rheu­ than the importance of this world justifies. He matic fever, and for six weeks disorganized maintains that overwork slew Pansay, who died Polder's establishment, stopped Polder's work, under his hands about three years ago. He has, of and nearly died in Polder's bedroom. Polder course, the right to speak authoritatively, and behaves as though he had been placed under he laughs at my theory that there was a crack eternal obligation by Rickett, and yearly sends in Pansay's head and a little hit of the Dark THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW. World came through and pressed him to death. and I are the only two who know this. His ex­ «Panaay went off the handle.* says Heather­ planation is that my brain, digestion and eye­ legh, «after the stimulus of long leave at Home. sight are all slightly affected; giving f is&'to my He may or he may not have behaved like a frequent and persistent "delusions." ' Delusions, blackguard to Mrs. Keith-Wessington. My no­ indeed! I call him a fool; hut he attends me tion is that the work of the Katabundi Settle­ still with the same unwearied smile, the same ment ran him off his legs, and that ho took to bland professional manner, the same, neatly- brooding and making much of an ordinary P.J& trimmed red whiskers, till I begin to suspect, 0. flirtation. He certainly was engaged to Miss that I am an ungrateful, evil-tempered invalid. Mannering, and she certainly broke off the en­ But you shall judge for yourselves. gagement. Then he took a feverish chill and Three years ago it was my fortune—nny great all that nonsense about ghosts developed. Over­ misfortune—to sail from Graveaend to Bombay, work started his illness, kept it alight, and on return from long leave, with one Agnes killed him, poor devil. Write him off to the Keith-Wessington, wife of an officer on the Bom­ System—one man to take the work of two and a bay side. It does not in the least concern you half men.» to know what.manner of woman she was. Be I do not believe this. I used to sit up with content with the knowledge that, ere the voy­ Pansay sometimes when Heatherlegh was called age had ended, both she and I were desperately out to patients, and I happened to be within and unreasonably in love with one another. claim. The man would make me most unhappy Heaven knows that I can make the admission by describing in a low, even voice, the proces­ now without one particle of vanity. In matters sion that was always passing at the bottom of of this sort there is always one who gives and his bed. He had a sick man's command of lan­ another who accepts. Prom the first day of guage. When he recovered I suggested that he our ill-omened attachment, I was coneious that should write out the whole affair from begin­ Agnes's passion was a stronger, a more domi­ ning to end, knowing that ink might assist him nant, and—if I may use the expression a purer to ease his mind. When little boys have learned sentiment than mine. Whether she recognized a new bad word they are never happy till they the fact then, I do'not know. Afterwards it have chalked it up on a door. And this also is was bitterly plain to both of us. Literature. Arrived at Bombay in the spring of the year, He was in a high fever while he was writing, we went our respective ways, to meet no more and the blood-and-thunder Magazine diction he for the next three or four months, when my adopted did not calm him. Two months after­ leave and her love took us both to Simla. There wards he was reported fit'for duty,, but, in spite we spent the season together; and there my lire of the fact that he was urgently needed to help of straw burnt itself out to a pitiful end with an undermanned Commission stagger through a the closing year. I attempt no excuse. I make deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last no apology. Mrs. Wessington had given up that he was hag-ridden. I got his manuscript much for my sake, and was prepared to give up before he died; and this is his version of the af­ all. Prom my own lips, in August, 1882, she fair, dated 1885:— learned that I was sick of her presence, tired of her company, and weary of the sound of her My doctor tells me that I need rest and change voice. Ninety-nine women out of a hundred of air. It is not improbable that I shall get would have wearied of me as I wearied of them; both ere long—rest that neither the red-coated seventy-five of that number would have prompt­ messenger nor the midday gun can break, and ly avenged themselves by active and obtrusive change of air far beyond that which any home­ flirtation with other men Mrs. Wessington ward-bound steamer can give me. In the mean­ was the hundredth. On her neither rn.y openly time Lam resolved to stay where I am; and, in expressed aversion nor the cutting brutalities flat defiance of, my doctor's orders, to take ali with which I garnished our interviews had the the world into my confidence. , You shall learn. least effect. for, yourselves the precise nature of my malady; «Jack, darling!» was her one eternal cuckoo and shall, too, judge for yourselves whether cry: «I"m sure it's all a mistake—a hideous mis­ any man born of woman on this weary earth take; and we'll be good friends again someday. was ever so tormented as I. • Please forgive me, Jack, dear.i) Speaking .now as a condemned criminal might I was the offender, and I knew it.