Billy Weaver is traveling down a dark street at night freezing and a bit hungry and in need of a place to stay. He looks around town but finds nothing. soon he stumbles into a house with a fire lit living room and a sign on the front door that tells that it is a boarding house. He rings the doorbell and a nice old woman greets him at the door. She tells him to come in and he does signings his name in the guest book. As he reads who else has stayed there, he noticed that the last guest were there a while back and that their names seemed familiar.
The woman offers Billy some food and drink but he doesn’t accept, he says he would like to go straight to bed. However later he accepts some tea and sits down with the old woman. Together, they have a conversation about the guests that were there before, and the woman says some strange things about a guy called Mr. Mulholland. Finally Billy speaks up, saying that the parrot fooled him from the window, he thought it was alive. The woman says that it is no longer, as well as the dachshund. Billy is worried more than ever, and finally realizes where he saw the names from the guestbook. The story ends with Billy asking the woman if there have been any other guests there in the last three years. She says no only him.
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