MIDNIGHT RIDER PART5

''What do you mean?''Roha demanded.

Pratap singh flushed and gave an impish look'

''Probably said more...don't know what I was thinking.....should get going.''he mumbled.desperate to avoid the onslaught.

''Wait''

''You can't go.First tell us what did you mean.''

''Exactly!''

Several voices cajoled him in one go,nearly flattening him to the ground.So Pratap Singh once again picked up his story from where he had left it to avoid being slaughtered by the curious,whacky kids of course!

''Well after the death of Hathway,there were mysterious appearances of a horse rider on that bridge at night.Several people claimed that it was Hathway who had come to seek revenge of his murder,but no one was sure as everyone had seen the person from quite a distance.Then one morning,a local Raja came dashing in the town,looking absolutely spooked.He ran like a maniac and demolished half of the market.Nobody could control him.He kept on yelling things like

'He has come.'

'Hathway will wipe this town of habitation.'

After wreaking havoc for quite a long time,he returned back to those forests crossing the river.People searched for him for hours yet everything was in vain.The next morning,a woman came running telling everyone who would hear that a bloodied corpse lay on the bridge.Everyone rushed to the spot to find Raja's mutilated body lying spread-eagled akin to the way Hathway's was found.

Years have passed after that incident which changed our lives forever and we've lost several people due to that ghost.Ther won't be a single family in this town who hadn't lost their loved ones to it.''he sighed,lapsing into a poignant silence.

''EXCELLENT!'' came a booming,gruff voice,making several people jump a foot in air and clutch each other in a dead grip.