{"id":7677,"date":"2019-09-09T16:05:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/?p=7677"},"modified":"2020-05-09T22:52:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T03:52:57","slug":"return-of-imray-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/09\/return-of-imray-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Imray, Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Rudyard Kipling<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A_Great_Darkness_Approaches_Can_You_Feel_It.mp3\" autoplay loop><\/audio><figcaption>Tap arrow above to turn off cinematic-style theme music, A Great Darkness Approaches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Imray-part-4-recording.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Tap arrow to listen to the story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Scary chat: Bahadur Khan stood up ashen gray in the light of the one lamp. The need for justification came upon him very swiftly. \u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"CV-messages-container CV-mainContainer-android\" style=\" background: none; background-color: #cc0000;\"><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Bahadur Khan<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> I am trapped, but the offence was by the wizard, Imray. He cast an evil eye upon my child, thus I killed and hid that devil. Only such as are served by devils, only such, could know what I did.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Strickland<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> It was clever. But thou shouldst have lashed him to the beam with a rope. Now, thou thyself wilt hang by a rope. Orderly!&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Drowsy Policeman<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Yes, sir?\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Second Drowsy Policeman<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Yes, Sahib?\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Strickland<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Take him to the police station. There is a case toward.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Bahadur Khan<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Do I hang, then?\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Strickland<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> I note that you are making no attempt to escape, and keeping your eyes downcast contritely, but I must tell you that you will hang if the sun shines or the water runs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Bahadur Khan<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> I shall make no attempt to escape, but I need to step back one long pace because a snake is near me. Ouch!&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">&lt;\/strong&gt;strickland<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Go with the police officers!&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Bahadur Khan<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\">&nbsp; Nay; but I go very swiftly. See! &nbsp;I am even now a dead man. Look! Clinging to my little toe is a half-killed snake. He has firmly affixed to me, like Imray.\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> You&#8217;ve done that deliberately!\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Bahadur Khan<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> I come of land-holding stock. It were a disgrace to me to go to the public scaffold: therefore I take this way.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Bahadur Khan, I can respect that.\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Bahadur Khan<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Remember that I have correctly enumerated the Sahib&#8217;s shirts, and placed an extra soap in his washbasin. Imray certainly bewitched my child and so I slew the wizard. Why should you slay me with the rope? I saved my honour, and\u2014and\u2014I die.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>At the end of an hour he died, as they die who are bitten by the little brown karait, and the policemen bore him and the thing under the tablecloth to their appointed places. All were needed to make clear the disappearance of Imray.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"CV-messages-container CV-mainContainer-android\" style=\" background: none; background-color: #cc0000;\"><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Strickland<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> This is the nineteenth century. Did you hear what the man said?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> I heard. Imray made a fatal mistake. The cause arose simply and solely through not knowing the nature of the Asian, and the coincidence of a little seasonal fever. Bahadur Khan had been with him for four years.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> I shuddered. Above all, my own servant had been with me for exactly that length of time. When I went over to my own room I found my man waiting.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Ali<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Shall I pull off your boots?\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> What has befallen Bahadur Khan?&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Ali<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> A snake bit him, and it killed him. The rest the Sahib knows.\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> And how much of this matter hast thou known?&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Ali<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> As much as might be gathered from One coming in in the twilight to seek satisfaction. Gently, Sahib. Let me pull off those boots.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*************<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I had just settled to the sleep of exhaustion when I heard Strickland provided a scary chat story ending from his side of the house\u2014<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"CV-messages-container CV-mainContainer-android\" style=\" background: none; background-color: #cc0000;\"><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Strickland<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Tietjens has come back to her place!&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And so she had. The great hound couched statelily on her own bedstead on her own blanket, while, in the next room, the idle, empty, ceiling-cloth waggled as it trailed on the table.<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rudyard Kipling Scary chat: Bahadur Khan stood up ashen gray in the light of the one lamp. 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