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A FACE IN THE DARK-Ruskin Bond
SUMMARY
The story “A Face in the Dark” by Ruskin Bond is set in Simla, a town in Himachal
Pradesh, India where an Anglo-Indian teacher Mr. Oliver teaches in a reputed
English public school which is regarded as the “Eton of the East”.
He is a bachelor and goes to the Shimla market some three miles away in the
evening and returns back to school at night on a daily basis. He takes the short
cut way through the pine forest. The setting of the story is a dark windy night.
On his way back, he saw a boy sitting alone on a rock. He was weeping with his
face in his hands and his head was hung down. Oliver stopped there and asked
him the reason for being alone at that time and why he was crying.
The boy didn’t answer his question and continued sobbing. Out of curiosity, Olive
again asked him what was troubling him. Then the boy lifted his face and the
light from Oliver’s torch fell on the boy’s face. Oliver was shocked to see that
there were no eyes, ears, nose or mouth. It was a smooth head with a school cap
on it.
Horrified, Mr. Oliver ran blindly when he bumped into a watchman who was
standing in the middle of the path with a lantern swinging in his hand. Watchman
asked him the reason why he was running. Oliver told him about the boy he met
had no face.
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