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NAULAHKA, THE (With Wolcott Balestier)
PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS
PUCK OF POOK'S HILL
SEA TO SEA, FROM
SEVEN SEAS, THE
SOLDIER STORIES
SOLDIERS THREE, THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS, and IN BLACK AND WHITE
STALKY & CO.
THEY
TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES
UNDER THE DEODARS, THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW and WEE WILLIE WINKIE
[Illustration: "A MAN WITH A GHASTLY SCARLET HEAD FOLLOWS, SHOUTING THAT HE MUST GO BACK AND BUILD UP HIS RAY."]
With the Night Mail
A STORY OF 2000 A.D.
(TOGETHER WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE IN WHICH IT APPEARED)
BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Illustrated in Color
BY FRANK X. LEYENDECKER AND H. REUTERDAHL
[Decoration]
NEW YORK
Doubleday, Page & Company
1909
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1905, 1909, BY RUDYARD KIPLING PUBLISHED, MARCH, 1909
REPRINTED IN BOOK FORM BY PERMISSION OF THE S. S. McCLURE COMPANY
ILLUSTRATIONS
"A man with a ghastly scarlet head follows, shouting that he must go back and build up his Ray" Frontispiece
FOLLOWING PAGE
"Slides like a lost soul down that pitiless ladder of light, and the Atlantic takes her" 31
The Storm 39
"I've asked him to tea on Friday" 58
WITH THE NIGHT MAIL
A STORY OF 2000 A.D.
With the Night Mail
At nine o'clock of a gusty winter night I stood on the lower stages of one of the G. P. O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in "Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed"; and the Postmaster-General himself countersigned the order. This talisman opened all doors, even those in the despatching-caisson at the foot of the tower, where they were delivering the sorted Continental mail. The bags lay packed close as herrings in the long gray under-bodies which our G. P. O.