Chapter 14 THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING[ ] (1888)

[* From "The Phantom 'Rickshaw."]

BY RUDYARD KIPLING (1865- )

[Setting. "They call it Kafiristan," said Dravot, the unfortunate hero of the story. "By my reckoning it's the top right-hand corner of Afghanistan, not more than three hundred miles from Peshawar." Determined to be Kings of Kafiristan, Carnehan and Dravot started probably from the