Kipling's India . lovers in *The Hillof Illusion {Under the Deodars) learned—fortunatelynot too late—that the eternal constancy, unalter-able trust, reverent devotion, and honour sooften sworn toward each other, had not so solid a foun-dation as they had imagined when they planned theirelopement at Shaifazehat a few months before; andthey virtually withdrew from their compact while theechoes of Mrs. Buzgagos solo rang in their ears: See saw! Margery Daw!Sold her bed to lie upon she a silly slutTo sell her bed and lie upon dirt? Jakko comes into the visions of the man who, in LaNuit
Kipling's India . lovers in *The Hillof Illusion {Under the Deodars) learned—fortunatelynot too late—that the eternal constancy, unalter-able trust, reverent devotion, and honour sooften sworn toward each other, had not so solid a foun-dation as they had imagined when they planned theirelopement at Shaifazehat a few months before; andthey virtually withdrew from their compact while theechoes of Mrs. Buzgagos solo rang in their ears: See saw! Margery Daw!Sold her bed to lie upon she a silly slutTo sell her bed and lie upon dirt? Jakko comes into the visions of the man who, in LaNuit Blanche, writes of his sensations during an attackof delirium tremens: I had seen as dawn was breaking And I staggered to my rest,Tara Devi softly shaking From the Cart Road to the had seen the spurs of Jakko Heave and quiver, swell and sink;Was it Earthquake or tobacco, Day of Doom or Night of Drink? A favourite place for the appearance of the phantomrickshaw was the Jakko Road. Jack Pansay and [44]. Copyrij^ht by A; Ijndenvood, N. Y. THE BROAD ROAD AROUND JAKKO HILL All Simla rides around Jakko Hill. Here JackPansay was riding with Kilty ^Lannering whenhe saw again the IMiantom Ricksliaw. On theJakko Road you again meet with Mrs. Hauksbee,and below the road lies the little English ceme-tery where the Tertiam Quid gazed down intothe grave which was so soon to become his own,nasty and cold—horribly cold ANGLO-INDIA Kitty Mannering were riding together round Jakkowhen, after Pansays well-grounded hope of relief fromThe Horror, he saw again the phantom rickshaw;dragged Kitty by the wrist up to where the phantomstood; revealed, in the insanity of his terror, the wholestory of his relations with Mrs. Wessington; and re-ceived Kittys dismissal in the lash of her riding-whipacross his face. It was on the Jakko Road, too, thatPansay begged the ghost of Agnes Wessington to ex-plain the meaning of her endless persecution of him, andthere he had his answer. On
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