Anderson lit the oil-lamp and looked round. Room
number 12 looked smaller by lamplight. Anderson was
tired. He went to bed.
In the morning, Anderson went to the Town Hall. He
wanted to study the town records. Anderson read many
very old papers. The oldest records were from the sixteenth
century.
There were some letters from the Bishop of Viborg,
dated 1560. The Bishop had owned three or four houses in
the city. He had rented a house to a man called Nicolas
Francken.
The townspeople of Viborg did not like Nicolas
Francken. Some people wrote to the Bishop to say that
Francken was a bad man. They said that Francken was a
magician. They wanted Francken to leave the city.
The Bishop said that Nicolas Francken had done nothing
wrong. He did not believe that Francken was a magician.
It was time for the Town Hall to close. As Anderson was
leaving, the town clerk spoke to him.
'I see you are reading about the Bishop and Nicolas
Francken,' the clerk said. 'I am interested in them. But I do
not know where Francken lived. Many of the town records
were burnt in the great fire of 1726.'
Anderson thanked the clerk and went back to The
Golden Lion. He wanted to ask the landlord about room
number 13, but the landlord was busy.
Anderson went upstairs and stopped outside the door of
number 13. He heard someone inside the room. The person
was walking around and talking in a strange voice.
Anderson went to his own room. He decided that
number 12 was too small. He decided to ask the landlord for
a large room. Also, he was angry because his suitcase was
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YOU ARE READING
The White Devil
HorrorViborg is a city in Denmark. It is an old city, but it has only a few old buildings. A great fire destroyed most of the old town in 1726. Mr Anderson was writing a book on the history of Denmark. He went to Viborg in 1891. He wanted to study th...
