STORIES BY ENGLISH AUTHORS     

  

       ORIENT     

  

       By Various Authors     

   

   

       Contents     

  THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, By Rudyard Kipling  

  TAJIMA, By Miss Mitford  

  A CHINESE GIRL GRADUATE, By R. K. Douglas              

  THE REVENGE OF HER RACE, By Mary Beaumont              

  KING BILLY OF BALLARAT, By Morley Roberts              

  THY HEART’S DESIRE, By Netta Syrett  

   

    

       THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, By Rudyard Kipling     

      Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy 

       The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though I once came near to kinship with what might have been a veritable King, and was promised the reversion of a 

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