After a ship-board romance with a married woman, Jack Pansay, a self-interested Englishman, rejects her. As the woman stubbornly denies that she has been rejected, Pansay treats her cruelly. When he becomes engaged to a young woman, his former lover dies of a broken heart. Shortly thereafter, Pansay begins to see her as he had in her final days: passing through the streets in her rickshaw drawn by four Indian brothers.

First published in Quartette, the Christmas Annual of the Civil and Military Gazette, 1885.
Revised for the collection The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales, NY: Frank F. Lovell, 1890.