midnight devil

Some of us often have to stay up to finish some work, and it can be a little terrifying if you are staying up, in cold and windy winter weather also, when the weather is very suitable for imagination and spirits and ghosts, wandering and seeking some refuge, as it happened with Mr. Fawaz. Fawaz, who is forty years old, who lives alone in the center of the town, used to stay up at night to spend the night listening to Umm Kulthum’s songs, and he would sit in his private studio humming with her, and letting his brush between the white pages, to draw with it what emerges in his fertile imagination, as he is one of the faculty members at the College Fine arts, that college that he always loved his major before he studied it, since he was young and was known for his genius brush, in which he always embodied many faces, and he puts all his fantasies in it. One night, while Fawaz was sitting in his studio, he heard the doorbell ringing! He wondered to himself, "Who would come to him in this stormy weather, or rather in the middle of the night, to knock on his door?" Fawaz got up cautiously from his studio to go towards the door, and looked behind him through the magic eye to see the one who was knocking, but he did not see anyone. A man with a bushy mustache stood behind the door shivering from the rain outside. Fawaz opened the door cautiously and asked him what he wanted, so the man smiled at him saying that he was visiting the city, and it was midnight and the train did not come. May he find refuge in this frost until morning. Fawaz opened the door to his house and asked him to enter. Indeed, the man entered and Fawaz felt that he could see signs of relief on his face, so he asked him if he was hungry, so the man kindly apologized, but Fawaz saw with his eyes that he was feeling embarrassed. Fawaz went to the cooking room and prepared some light food for his strange visitor and went out to give him food. By asking him, the man told him that he was of rural origins, and he had come to the city for the opening of one of the new halls, in the museum, which is located in the middle of the city. Fawaz told him that it had already been completed. I invited him to this party, but the party is not today, but tomorrow, so the man nodded his head that yes, but he made a mistake today and he will not be able to stay for another day, and that he must return to his town in the morning. The man finished his meal and Fawaz brought him some blankets to cover with, from this stormy weather, the weather was really cold, so the man wrapped himself in the covers and fell asleep smiling, Fawaz had felt tired from his long day, and he had to go tomorrow to the opening ceremony of the new hall in the museum, He slept with his eyes full and got up early in the morning, but he did not find his visitor! He searched for him everywhere in the house, perhaps he went to the bathroom, but he really wasn't there. Fawaz said to himself, the man must have been embarrassed to stay, at night Fawaz put on his suit and went well dressed to the party, and wandered around the new hall, seeing what But it stopped him is strange. In one of the corners where old pictures were hung, and next to them were recent pictures of some places in the city, a picture of some men standing in line caught his eye. Fawaz noticed the picture, and his eyes widened in terror. He asked the person responsible for that picture, and the man said to him: These are some of the resistance men during During the occupation period, and this photo was taken two hundred years ago, Fawaz was more astonished and terrified than before. And this man in the middle had visited me yesterday, and said to him, how could he be in the same picture!! The man answered him, surprised, perhaps your honor was confused, so Fawaz said, I am sure that he was the one who was visiting me yesterday, and he also has the same beard and mustache, and even the same birthmark on his forehead, and here he remembered that when he looked from behind he did not find anyone to ring the bell. The man's eyes widened in terror, and he began to wonder what had caused this ghost to visit him yesterday, and he left the hall and behind him the picture, in which the man looked as if he was looking at him from behind, smiling.