The Old Wine Shades [antikvár]

(from The Winds of Change)ey sat in silence for a moment. Then Harry Johnson said, "Ifyou want a story, I'll tell you a storythough I can't explain it, or tell you the end; there isn't any end.""Sounds intriguing.""Oh, ifs intriguing, all right.""Go on.""It happened to a friend of mine. This person, who was the luckiest person Pre ever knownyou could almost say was hounded by good lucklost everything overnight.""Bloody hell. You mean, in a market crash, something like that?""No, no. Not money. I mean he lost everything. He woke up one morning and found himself sans wife, son, even his dog. He did not know what had happened, and of course no one would believe him and he had no idea what to do. He considered going to the police, but what in hell would he say ? They wouldn't believe him, I mean wouldn't believe the wife, the son, the dog had simply disappeared; well, you know how bloody-minded police can be""I do indeed."Jury smiled in a crazy kind of way.