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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.
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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.
