A Strange Story:
A journalist has strange story to tell.
I’ve never been a superstitious person ... never believed in ghosts or things like that. But, two years ago, something happened which changed my attitude. I still can’t explain it ... somehow I don’t think I ever will be able to.
I was living in Frankfurt ... in Germany ... where I was a financial journalist. A very good friend ... one of my closest friends ... we’d been at university together ... was coming over from England by car to see me. He was supposed to get there around six in the evening ... Saturday evening.
I was at home in my flat all that afternoon. At about three in the afternoon, the phone rang. But ... but when I answered it, there was nobody there ... on the other hand, I mean. Nobody. The phone rang again just a few minutes later. Again, nobody was there ... I couldn’t understand it. Just a few minutes later, there was a knock at the door. I was in the kitchen, making some coffee. I remember I was just pouring the boiling water through the filter when I heard the knock. I opened the door and there was my friend ... Roger, that was his name. Roger. He looked a bit ... strange ... pale ... and I said something like ‘Roger, how did you get here so early?’ He didn’t answer ... he just smiled slightly ... he was a bit like that. He didn’t say very much ... I mean, even when I’d known him before, he often came into my flat without saying very much. And ... well ... anyway, I said ‘Come in’ and went back to the kitchen to finish pouring the coffee. I spoke to him from the kitchen, but he didn’t answer ... didn’t say a word ... and I thought that was a bit ... strange ... even for Roger. So I looked round the door, into the next room, where I thought he was sitting ... and ... and he wasn’t there. The door was still open. I thought for a moment that he’d gone down to the car to get his luggage ... and then I began to wonder where his girlfriend was. She was coming with him, you see, from England.
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