Afghanistan -- Fiction; British -- Afghanistan -- Fiction; Kings and rulers -- Fiction; Political fiction
“He was admitted suffering from sun-stroke. He died early yesterday
morning,” said the Superintendent. “Is it true that he was half an
hour bareheaded in the sun at midday?”
“Yes,” said I, “but do you happen to know if he had anything upon
him by any chance when he died?”
“Not to my knowledge,” said the Superintendent.
And there the matter rests.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Man Who Would Be King, by Rudyard Kipling
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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