Mortimer’s Undue Curiosity (Part 1)

Then Mortimer was twelve years of age. He found a tattered old book that was bound in red leather in his father’s library. As and when the rest of his family members were asleep, Mortimer stealthily took the book. Where? To his bedroom for reading it by candlelight. The roaring sea outside as well as the ticking clock in the hall were in their flow.

          Anyway, Mortimer was deeply attracted by the old book that contained a story named ‘The Midnight Express’. The illustration on the fiftieth page of the book scared Mortimer due to some unknown reason. What was in the illustration? It showed a vacant railway platform. It was night-time. So, a dull and yellow lamp lit the platform. A lonely man was seen standing under the lamp. He turned his face towards the dark mouth of a tunnel. Everything seemed so sound. Still, Mortimer did never read beyond that fiftieth page.

          A number of years rolled away in this way. Mortimer was no more a child. Yes, he became a young man in course of time.

          Then one day, while waiting for a train, Mortimer was standing in a dull, dark and vacant junction. There was no light there except a single dull lamp. All on a sudden, he noticed a familiar yet dark figure there. The figure was turned at the dark mouth of a tunnel.

                        [Retold the story Midnight Express by Alfred Noyes]

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