Explore "The other Man" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
When the earth was sick and the skies were gray, / And the woods were rotted with rain, / The Dead Man rode through the autumn day / To visit his love again. / Old Ballad.
Far back in the "seventies," before they had built any Public Offices at Simla, and the broad road round Jakko lived in a pigeon-hole in the P. W. D. hovels, her parents made Miss Gaurey marry Colonel Schriederling. He could not have been MUCH more than thirty-five years her senior; and, as he lived on two hundred rupees a month and had money of his own, he was well off. He belonged to good people, and suffered in the cold weather from lung complaints. In the hot weather he dangled on the brink of heat-apoplexy; but it never quite killed him.