The Unmarked Drawer
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The clerk listened intently to my story, not blinking, not looking away.
When I finished, he got up and walked over to a large filling cabinet.
He opened an unmarked drawer and began thumbing through an extensive collection of files.
Pulling a file from the drawer, he opened it up and pulled out a very old newspaper article.
"Is this the man you saw?" He asked as he handed me the article.
I looked at the clipping and felt my stomach drop. It was him. That was the man.
The clerk sat down across from me and smiled a little bit.
"You're not the first to have seen him."
That was not the reaction I was expecting.
"Read the article," he said.
The article told the story of a man who had gone away on business and returned home to discover that his pregnant wife had been cheating on him and that the baby wasn't his.
Heartbroken and betrayed, the man checked into the hotel and never left his room.
He was heard to crying and wailing in heartbreak for three days before he finally stopped.
When the maid entered his room to clean, she found his body in the bathtub.
He had taken his own life, drowning himself after ingesting many sleeping pills.
"Is this . . . is this why you won't let anyone check in on the 8th floor? Because of him?" I asked feeling more at ease knowing that I wasn't crazy.
"No." The clerk admitted. "He's only one of the reasons we don't let anyone check in on the 8th floor."
"What do you mean?"
The clerk just smirked again. "See that filling cabinet?"
"Yeah."
"And that unmarked drawer at the bottom?"
"Yes," I answered again. "what of it?"