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The Stranger
1. THE STRANGER (Norman Whitney)
2. The people in this story
3. CHAPTER1 A Stranger in Woodend: Someone arrived at Woodend. He is a polite and good-looking man, he’s young and he looks rich.He asked for a room to stay one night. The next day the man looked around the village, and he met some villagers. A few days later he came back to advertise that he will open a shop in Woodend.
4. CHAPTER 2 The Village Meeting: The shop has created some troubles; because not all the people had agreed to have a shop in this village. But Dave Slatin explained to the villagers that he only want to be one of them because he liked people in Woodend. Then he explained what was his idea for the shop. In it, you will find all the things what you need, but would also sell your products. All the people agreed and the shop opened.
5. CHAPTER 3 The Corner Shop: All the things in the shops went right; the village products have sold and the prices are good. But Dave sold vegetables and lots of fruit when it was winter and that’s no normal. Upstairs there was Dave’s house and one mysterious room, which nobody can get in.
6. CHAPTER 4 A Beautiful Customer: One day in the shop an unusual customer arrived. She was a famous star, she was Greta Gordon, and she asked for Mr. Slatin, Anna which was the assistant went fast to call Dave. They went to the Special Orders room. Ten minutes later they came out and Greta Gordon was pale and crying, Anna asked if something was wrong, but she only said; “you can’t tell anyone that I been here.”
7. CHAPTER 5 A Page in “Film News: The spring has come so Anna and Dave are very busy. In May, Peter asked Anna to marry him and she said yes, so they work very hard and save a lot of money.One day Anna was reading Film News, and Greta Gordon appeared on it when she saw that, she showed to Dave but he didn’t give any importance.
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13. CHAPTER 11 Arthur Riseman: One day on October another special customer arrived. He was a big man with a very large moustache; he was carrying a large briefcase. Anna asked for his name, he said: “Arthur Riseman”. Then he went to the back of the shop.Anna decided to wait for Mr. Riseman in the corner. When he came in front of hers, she offered some bread, and he accepted.She asks for his briefcase but he said that he didn’t have ones. Anna turned to fetch the briefcase but he held her wrists.
14. CHAPTER 12 Anna waits for news:: Anna wanted to know more about Arthur Riseman when she read in the newspaper about private "ICS" plane which fell down and Arthur Riseman was the only survived.
15. CHAPTER 13 The Special Orders Room:: The next day Dave left the shop earlier so Anna decided to have a look inside the Special orders room.First seemed that there was nothing, but inside she saw boxes, she could find money of all over the world, a doll with broken arms and a plane with its broken wings.Suddenly Anna heard a voice behind her, someone was standing on the door.
16. CHAPTER 14 The Special Customers: The person who was standing in the door was Dave Slatin. Anna started asking about the things in the room but he only said a part of the truth. But then Dave became angry and Anna felt afraid.Dave started telling which person who has helped, and now something wrong has passed to them.And Dave took Anna’s arm and held it tightly. Then Dave explained that he would like to get married from her but Anna escaped.
17. CHAPTER 15 31st October: When Anna arrived home she was very ill. She couldn’t speak or move.The next day she was too ill.Peter was with her, he heard shouting in the shop. He looked through the window and he could see that the corner shop was on fire. And Dave was inside the shop, but he wouldn’t move, so he died burned.Then Peter went to Anna’s house and suddenly there was a scream, they run upstairs to Anna’s room and they saw that Anna was dead.