The cold breeze is blowing, the winter is ruling over the whole city where stood a lonely café with its light decorated hoarding shouting: – “Colin’s Café” with a big hall for café and two small sleeping rooms inside beside a park where Soapy thinks for himself, sitting on a bench in Madison Square in New York City.

The lights are still on, seems it’s still open. Thinking so, a chap crosses the road and get outside it. He find the hanging close but makes his mind to stare inside. He lifts his two eye brows widening his eyes which clears that he is totally confuse and dumbfound because he finds a man inside sleeping, sitting on a chair, his legs on the table which had pushed a little wine glass and a bit far a pushy sleeping too. The mouse below his legs also catches his eyes. Their snore can abash any one who passes them and others across the road so the boy outside actually came over there.

A second passes, a wine glass on the next table gives a sound of its fall which finally opens the sleeping’s eyes. The mouse ran quickly and cat after it. The man inside opens his eyes and senses a movement outside the door. He certainly gets up, opens the door and gradually sees out side “Either some robbers or thugs was it.” He thinks. He circles his eyes to every direction but silence at all.

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Now, he comes inside and closes the door. He walks to the site where he finds a rolling wine glass to and fro with a new wet coin of fifty cent ($50) in it as if somebody made it fall just some seconds before. He connects the glass and the movement that he sensed and comes out with the conclusion, “Oh! Yes, someone was in the café when I was sleeping and when I got awoke he ran out, therefore in hurry he made it to fall.” “But, the dollar?” he becomes confuse and still moves forward where he finds a note telling, “Sorry! I did not tell you, I have left the coin for the wine I have drunk, Colin.”

He shudders and makes some haunted concepts. Whole night he could not sleep well.

Next morning, he calls the cops for the investigation of the entire strange event in the café last night. Groups of people were gossiping and chattering about the event gathering out of the café. “What are those babblings for?” A woman comes out rubbing her eyes from the café. All at the scene gets shock. The cop asks who is she and gets their answer that she is Colin’s wife and had had a glasses of wine last night also left the note and fifty cent of coin which she threw from the door of the room of café which hit the glass and made it fall while she was moving for sleeping. This makes Colin shy among the viewers but he raises another question “But, who was there at the door, whom I sensed?”

It was me papa! A fellow stated form back. “I was late last night. So, I thought to sleep here but the door was locked and you’re sleeping. Therefore, I went home.” “Then, why you should move when I opened my eyes and where were you vanished as ghosts?” asks Colin. “Oh! It may be just a coincidence and the matter for my disappearance was my coin. When I took my hand out of my pockets the coin fell down and rolled left. I ran after the coin. So what, I was vanished.

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Colin feels shy in his lazy and foolishness which makes other to laugh and the scenario somehow funny for a while in the cool morning of Monday where Soapy breaks a wide window glass of an electric shop at a corner of Sixth Avenue.

By

Pujan Gajurel

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