What is moral value
I was walking alone in a cool winter midnight
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I was walking alone in a cool winter midnight. The streets were deserted. Suddenly I heard the echo of footsteps in the silence of the night. I was scared! ‘Who could it be? A watch man, police, someone like me going home late at night or …some criminal following me?’ thought I. I started walking more briskly. My home was still a few hundred meters away. I thought of scramming for help; but then decided against it as everyone had gone to bed by that time. There was no soul around. People were fast asleep in their snug rooms.
As I began running towards my house, I felt the footsteps behind me moving swiftly towards me. I saw the outline of a tall man with cap moving rapidly towards me in the dark of the night. As I ran faster, the voice of the man following me shouted: ‘Stop! Or I will shoot you!’ Scared terribly I stopped. The man came closer to me! As he came closer, I saw in the light of the nearest lamppost that he was a cop. He said, ‘What are you doing outside so late in the cold night? I suspected you were either a criminal or a terrorist. If you had not stopped, I would have fired at you.’ I told him I was returning home after attending a friend’s birthday party. I showed him my identity card and showed him my house too. The cop escorted me to the house and wishing me good night went away.