Irfan (Volume - 2) / IRFAAN-2

193-194

Since this king came in the fourth generation of the Pharaohs and since usually he was not seen in the day and was seen at night, therefore, the people of those times used to call him 'white bat'. Mr. Hendry was greatly impressed from my speech and he asked me 'Mr. Cheiro! For God's sake, please tell me this that if the dead people can avenge from the living ones and can hurt us after arriving in the world'. I said 'Yes! under some conditions, the spirits of the dead can come in world and do many things'. He took a sigh of some relief and said 'Mr. Cheiro! I am badly under the curse, damn or (invisible) damage [whatever you call it] by that thing, that is, the white bat. It has snatched from me the dearest thing in my life my darling wife. It has forced a dear friend of mine to suicide and killed him in this way. It has totally ruined my business and now it is behind my dear life and want to finish it. Mr. Cheiro! For God's sake! Foresee my future and predict what other blights are still there to come for me?' When he had finished this last sentence, his forehead was sweating with fear. I said 'Mr. Hendry! Let me know some situation of yours this problem. May be I can help. He, then, told me such an astonishing and painful story which struck me with wonder and surprise.

He said 'Last year I was stationing in Shepherd Hotel of the capital city Cairo of Egypt last year. I heard the news of first time digging the ancient valley of Egypt known as 'Valley of the Kings' on a larger scale the work on which had been suspended earlier because of the sudden death of a German Archeologist with no apparent reason. Egyptian labor that were working on excavation of the site were feeling a huge fear and threat in their job. They had strong belief that the exterior crypt which was recently dug was under the control of a mighty spirit or some powerful demon that had killed the German Officer at once.

*

They believed that the inside and the original crypt chamber that had not been explored yet must be occupied by even a more dangerous element. Since I was very bold and careless for such beliefs, I booked the contract of digging in my name by giving bribes to the concerned Officers in charge. The previous labor did not agree to work at any price and offer. However, I found new labor and employed them on the job. One after the other, three crypts were discovered and excavated. The last one was that deepest crypt where the king's monastery was. Here the dead body of the king of that time was buried because on the door leading that chamber was sealed with the name 'Cheops IV'. Crypt was opened and I entered that chamber with an ordinary electrical torch lonely in that place because the Egyptian laborers had declined to go in because of fear. When I approached ahead with torch, I saw the golden coffin (wooden chest) of the king alongside the front wall. I raised the cover of the coffin and in this way I woke up the Roohani buried before three to four thousand years sealed with the ancient talisman then broken by me. This dead body was of some religious and spiritual leader of that age which was all intact with his long white beard ever after three to four years from his death. This vast grave was built in his honor by the king Cheops IV'. Mr. Hendry continued his story with a noticeable accent. 'on the chest of that mummy was laid that statue of that white bat on a block. As soon as I lifted that stony statue from the chest of that mummy in order to uncover the wrapper on its body, an awfully frightful plume overcame my heart and I lost my wits. So much so that light of the electrical lamp almost died out till its minimum and a cold gruesome air surrounded the crypt with whistling like sound and I saw some figures flying like birds and felt them clawing across my face. I thought these must be the physically existing normal bats but my heart confessed too that I was overcome by some macabre thing. I hurriedly left the room with that idol of bat only in order to have some sighs of peace.