Nobody ever found out what happened to the woman at number fourteen.
One day she was there and the next she was gone. It was as though her existence had been thoroughly wiped from the face of the earth. She had simply disappeared, along with all of her possessions. The house was left with just a few sticks of furniture, with nothing to show that she had ever owned any of them. The rumour-mill said it was some obscure government department, but that was just gossip. Naturally, her parents and her boyfriend made lots of enquiries and got nowhere. They even tried to get something put in the newspapers about it, but they didn’t seem interested. After a while people stopped looking for her and eventually no one even asked questions. No one, that is, except her boyfriend. He was convinced he could get to the bottom of it. He had found an ally in the old man who was a night cleaner at the local council offices.
The old man had gone through a similar experience when his cousin had vanished into thin air the year before. Between them they began digging. After gathering information from various sources, including staff members at the council offices, they felt they were getting close to the truth. Then… the questions stopped abruptly.
Nobody ever found out what happened to the cleaner and the boyfriend.