Room 13-02
13号房间 02
He heard someone moving inside the room.
"I'm very sorry," he said and went to the door of room number 12.
Perhaps the servants sleep in room 13, Anderson thought. He decided to ask the landlord about it the next day.
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."
他听到房间里有人走动。
“抱歉。”他说道,并走回12号房间。
安得森先生想:“也许是旅馆服务员住13号房间吧。”他打算第二天问问旅馆老板这事儿。
安得森先生点亮油灯,环顾四周看了看。他感觉灯光下的12号房间看起来好像变小了。不过他实在是太累了,没太在意便上床睡觉了。
第二天早上,安得森先生去了市政厅,他想看看维堡市的城市档案。他读了很多古老的文献,最早的是16世纪留下来的档案。
其中有1560年维堡主教的一些信,这位主教在维堡市有三四处房产,他把其中的一座房子租给了一个叫尼古拉斯.弗兰肯的人。
维堡市民不喜欢尼古拉斯.弗兰肯,有些人给主教写信说弗兰肯是个巫师,是个坏蛋,他们想把他赶出维堡市。
主教回信说尼古拉斯.弗兰肯并没做错什么,他不相信他是个巫师.
市政厅要关门了,安得森先生正要离开的时候,一名工作人员对他说:“我看见您在读关于主教和尼古拉斯.弗兰肯的东西,我对他们也很感兴趣,但是我不知道弗兰肯具体住在哪,因为许多档案都在1726年的那场大火里被烧毁了。”