The Road Throught The Hills

Jamie studies architecture and on his vacations he went to Melbury, in south of England. He wanted to see a church there.When he arrived there, he saw in the wall "Church Sreet".He thought the church was in that street.He walked along the street.An old woman was there.Jamie said " Er, can I help you ?", andthe woman said " Of course ! Let's go inside". Jamie went into a room and the woman told him to wait there. The room looked like a child's bedroom. Then he saw a photograph with only hills, fields, a few trees, a white gate and a path. Jamie asked her where is the church. She gave him a map. The word 'church' was written at the end of the path. He got out of the house and followedthe path to the church according to the map. But he couldn't see anything like a church. "This map is wrong !", he thought. But he recognized where he was. Was the same scene as in the photograph. And suddenly he turned around and someone came out of the trees and took a photograph of him. Jamie recognized the photographer's face ! It was the old woman of Church Street. He got back to the pub. Ted, the landlord was behind the bar, and they started to talk. Jamie told Ted the strange experience with the woman. Ted told him that he wasn't the first who couldn't find the church and that street wasn't Church Street at all. That was Churchill Street and someone keeps covering the last letters. Ted told him the woman is called Mary Walgrave, and she has lived alone for more than 40 years. Jamie asked about the child's bedroom. Ted said that Mary's son died and gave him an old newspaper with the news about Laurence's death ( Laurence is the child ). The next mornig Jamie remembered the sad story of Mary, he felt sorry and went to her house to say goodbye. He entered in Laurence's bedroom and it was full of light, that he could see five photographs of the hills with one boy in each one. Was diferent boys with diferent ages, one older than the other, and the oldest was Jamie. The photographs told the story. Mary looks at the wall and see a boy getting older where her real son had died. Jamie got out of the room and saw Mary sleeping, then he left a photo of him as a child to leave Mary with a happier memory