Mehendra was a junior supervisor in a firm which offered on hire supervisors at different sites. He was a bachelor. A cook, Iswaran,ss was attached to him. Iswaran cooked for him, washed his clothes and performed other household chores.
Iswaran was a good storyteller too. Most of his stories were full of surprise and thrill. His descriptions were fine. He narrated the smallest incident in detail. He would work up in suspense and add a surprising end. He was very imaginative. Mahendra always enjoyed his stories.
Iswaran told him a story of a mad tusker. It entered a school ground. The students hid in their classrooms. The teachers climbed up the terrace. Iswaran was then a junior student. He took a stick and controlled the elephant all alone. One day Iswaran told Mahendra how he sometimes saw ghosts at night.
Mahendra called Iswaran a crazy fellow. He tried to convince Iswaran that it was his imagination and there was nothing like a ghost in his world. But he himself was afraid now.
From that day on, Mahendra went to his room with a certain unease. His mind was surrounded by fearful thoughts. One night, he was woken up by a low moan close to his window. He saw outside. There was a ghost. He was frightened. He broke into cold sweat and fell back on his pillow. However, he thought that it might be a kind of autosuggestion, a trick.
Next morning, Iswaran reminded Mahendra that he had heard someone moaning outside the window. He told him that he had come running to his room after hearing the moans. Mahendra felt chilled and ran to his office. Now he decided to leave that haunted place immediately.