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If a man said to a confirmed dâk-bungalow-haunter: "There is a corpse in the next room, and there's a mad girl in the next but one, and the woman and man on that camel have just eloped from a place sixty miles away," the hearer would not disbelieve because he would know that nothing is too wild, grotesque, or horrible to happen in a dâk-bungalow. This credulity, unfortunately, extends to ghosts.
"I have discovered," I said to Bhima Gandharva after a short experience of the dak-gharri and the dak-bungalows "I have discovered a general remark about India which is not absurd: all the horses are devils and all the dak-bungalow servants are patriarchs." "If you judge by the heels of the former and the beards of the latter, it is true," he said.
There were sixty years of mixed work to be sifted out between us, and since we had met one another from time to time in the quick scene-shifting of India a dinner, camp, or a race-meeting here; a dak-bungalow or railway station up country somewhere else we had never quite lost touch. Infant sat on the banisters, hungrily and enviously drinking it in.
A ghost that would voluntarily hang about a dâk-bungalow would be mad of course; but so many men have died mad in dâk-bungalows that there must be a fair percentage of lunatic ghosts. In due time I found my ghost, or ghosts rather, for there were two of them. Up till that hour I had sympathized with Mr. Besant's method of handling them, as shown in "The Strange Case of Mr.
After another cannon, a three-cushion one to judge by the whir, I argued no more. I had found my ghost and would have given worlds to have escaped from that dak-bungalow. I listened, and with each listen the game grew clearer. There was whir on whir and click on click. Sometimes there was a double click and a whir and another click.
He began to draw him away. Merryon's eyes came back as it were out of space, and gave him a quick side-glance that was like the turn of a rapier. "I must go down to the dâk-bungalow," he said, with decision. Swift protest rose to the doctor's lips, but it died there. He tightened his hold instead, and went with him.
The others did not like this plan; and, after some consideration, it was decided to go to a hotel; at least it was suggested as the remedy by the commander, who again insisted upon paying the bill. But there was no suitable hotel in the place. The dak-bungalow was the only resort, though a hotel was soon to be opened.
Lucraft and Other Stories." I am now in the Opposition. We will call the bungalow Katmal dâk-bungalow. But THAT was the smallest part of the horror. A man with a sensitive hide has no right to sleep in dâk-bungalows. He should marry. Katmal dâk-bungalow was old and rotten and unrepaired. The floor was of worn brick, the walls were filthy, and the windows were nearly black with grime.
Amber leaned forward, watching the driver's face. "Your name, tonga-wallah?" he enquired. "Ram Nath, sahib." The man spoke without moving his head, attending diligently to the management of his ponies. "And this other passenger, who awaits us at the dak-bungalow, Ram Nath is he, perchance, one known both to you and to me?" Ram Nath flicked the flagging ponies.
It comes down from a time when the railway and the hotel did not exist; when the occasional white traveler went horseback or by bullock-cart, and stopped over night in the small dak-bungalow provided at easy distances by the government a shelter, merely, and nothing more. He had to carry bedding along, or do without.
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