The Man Who Would Be King
Two loafers turned freemasons walk out of British India with twenty Martini rifles and a contract signed between them, meaning to cross the Khyber, drill an army out of the tribes of Kafiristan and take a crown nobody is using. A newspaperman in a Lahore office lends them the maps and the survey books, and hears years later what became of the plan. Kipling was twenty-two and had never been anywhere near the country he sends them to.
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