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Alternate Ending to “The Landlady”

“Your teas all ready for you.” She sat down on the large, comfy sofa and placed the tea on the coffee table. Billy sat down in the chair next to the sofa and grabbed the cup of tea. He took a long sip of the tea because he was very parched from all of his traveling.
“Would you be a kind man and do me a favor?” The Landlady asked, “Will you please sign my guest book, I like keeping record of people who come here.” She handed Billy the guest book and gave him a pen. Billy only saw two names in the book. One being Christopher Mulholland and the other being Gregory W. Temple. He recognized the names from his local newspaper. Those boys had disappeared and they were never seen again. Billy wondered what to do. He didn’t know if he should sign his real name, Billy Weaver or sign a fake name. He choose to sign a fake name, Louis Baker.
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“Well, my birth name is Louis but I prefer Billy,” he claimed. The Landlady didn't know that Billy was lying and she closed her book and went back to the coach to sit down. Billy couldn’t take his mind off of those names in the guest book. He wondered what had happened to those boys. He decided to ask the Landlady about them.
“Do you happen to know two boys, one named Christopher Mulholland and the other named Gregory Temple?” Inquired Billy. The Landlady had to take awhile to think about them. When she realized how she knew the boys she tried to change the

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