One day, the phone rang in my house. When I went to the landline phone, of which there aren't many left these days, and answered, I heard a familiar voice: "Please be attentive." -- Hello, Strange. Long time no see or hear from you. “Oh, Phantom! How many years, how many winters?” I said happily and leaned against the nearest wall. -- Yes, quite a while ago. But more about that later. I got my hands on a very interesting document. My team checked its authenticity. “How much?” I asked with interest...

One evening a man called James was on the road from Oxford to London. There weren’t many cars on the road because it was late. Suddenly in the lights of his car he saw a woman by the road – she was quite young and very pretty. ‘It’s dangerous to walk along the road when it’s dark and late,’ he thought. He stopped, opened the window and asked the young woman, ‘Where are you going? It’s dangerous to stand here at night… perhaps I can take you to London with me.’ The young woman didn’t answer but she opened the door of the car and got in...