The Light That Failed

PREFACE

This is the story of _The Light that Failed_ as it was originally conceived by the writer.

RUDYARD KIPLING

CHAPTER I

So we settled it all when the storm was done As comf’y as comf’y could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three; And Teddy would run to the rainbow’s foot, Because he was five and a man; And that’s how it all...