32. But something choked him. He could not end the sentence.
Note the intensity.
33. Then he turned to the blackboard, seized a piece of chalk, and, bearing with all his strength, he wrote in the largest letters he could make:
Full Climax.
34. “VIVE LA FRANCE!”
35. Then he stood there, his head leaning against the wall, and without a word he signed to us with his hand:
36. “It is the end ... go!”
KIPLING AND HIS WRITINGS
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, December 30, 1865, of English parents, his father, J. Lockwood Kipling, an artist of ability, having been in the colonial Civil Service. He was educated at the United Services College, Devon, but returned to India in 1882 and became an editorial writer and correspondent. In 1889 he began extensive travels. For several years he resided in Brattleboro, Vermont, but returned to England and settled in Rottingdean, Sussex.
Rudyard Kipling has attained celebrity as poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His best-known poems are found in the collections entitled Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads, The Seven Seas, and The Five Nations. Kim is his ablest novel. The two “Jungle Books” constitute a remarkable collection of connected tales of the jungle folk. His best short-stories are found in the following volumes: Soldiers Three (the “Mulvaney” stories, “The Man Who Was,” etc.), The Phantom Rickshaw (“The Man Who Would be King,” “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes,” etc.), Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories (“The Drums of the Fore and Aft,” “Under the Deodars,” etc.), The Day’s Work (“The Bridge Builders,” “The Brushwood Boy,” etc.), and Traffic and Discoveries (“They,” etc.). “Without Benefit of Clergy” first appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine (London) in June, 1890, and in the June 7th and 14th, 1890, numbers of Harper’s Weekly (New York). In the same year it was published in the volume, The Courting of Dinah Shadd, and Other Stories, but in 1891 it was included in the volume Life’s Handicap: being Stories of Mine Own People.