THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist, who wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. The Kipling’s writer masterpiece characterized by portrayals of people, history, and culture of his time, so Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

“The God from the Machine” is a story written by Rudyard Kipling about 'Soldiers Three', Mulvaney the Irishman, Learoyd the Yorkshireman, and Ortheris the Londoner, who first appeared in "The Three Musketeers" in Plain Tales from the Hills. Mulvaney tells how, in the days of his youth as a smart young Corporal, he foils a plot by a ruffianly Captain to run away with the Colonel's pretty daughter.