The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling Fiction Classics Literary Horror Short Stories

<p><strong>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.</strong> 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. . . .</p>