Improve your English ⭐ English Story - A girl in a cafe - The Stolen Sketchbooks

Greg is a porter at the Shepton Hotel in New York after work he always goes for a coffee across the street a girl is sitting in the coffee shop near the window it's her again thanks Greg she's here every afternoon I'm going to say hello Greg goes into the coffee shop and gets a coffee then he goes across to the girls table hi says I'm Greg can I sit with you okay she says I'm Cassie I come here for a coffee every day after work says Greg I'm a porter at the Shepton Hotel he smiles you have beautiful green eyes have I she says she doesn't smile is something wrong Cassie he asks you don't look very happy it it's nothing she says tell me says Greg maybe I can help well she begins go on says Greg my stepfather is staying at the Shepton Hotel she says he has my sketchbooks I'm an artist when I ask him to give them to me he says no I want you to come back home to Boston but I don't want to go back to Boston he's not nice how long is he going to be at the hotel asks Greg two more days says Cassie he's in room seven two four maybe I can get the sketchbooks for you says Greg maybe I can get into his room can you she says meet me here tomorrow afternoon at 4 30. says Greg okay thank you says Cassie thank you very much she looks at her watch I've got to go now see you tomorrow when Cassie gets back to her hotel room she makes a telephone call hello she says it's me it's okay the boys going to do it yes I'm going to get them from him tomorrow afternoon okay I can meet you there the morning after at 10 am don't forget to bring the money two thousand dollars next morning Greg arrives at work early he goes to find room seven two four I have to wait for Cassie's stepfather to go out he thinks I don't know his name but it doesn't matter Greg watches the door of room seven two four he sees the girl come to clean the rooms some minutes later a man comes out of room seven to four that must be Cassie's stepfather thanks Greg he waits for the man to leave and for the cleaning girl to go into room seven to four I need to look in the room he thinks Greg waits for the girl to leave the bedroom then he goes into the room and begins to look for the sketchbooks I must be quick he thinks where are they suddenly Greg sees the sketchbooks by the bed got them he thinks he begins to look at the pictures wow Cassie is a great artist these are good Greg is leaving the room when he hears the cleaning girl call out to him hey she says what are you doing come back Greg does not stop Greg finishes work that afternoon and leaves the hotel through a door in the next street when he gets near the front of the hotel he sees the man from room 724. that's him again thanks Greg that's Cassie's stepfather Greg waits for the man to go into the hotel then he goes to the coffee shop Cassie is at the same table in the coffee shop Greg gets a coffee and goes to sit with her I have them he says and he puts the sketchbooks on the table that's great says Cassie how can I thank you Greg you can meet me later he says after I go home and change out of my Porter's uniform I'm sorry Greg says Cassie I can't tonight maybe tomorrow night okay says Greg tomorrow night we can get something to eat first yes okay says Cassie I have to go now but meet me here tomorrow evening at six o'clock Cassie gets up ready to leave don't forget your key says Greg oh uh thanks says Cassie she takes it from him quickly see you tomorrow Greg is finishing his coffee when he sees his friend Mike you're in trouble Greg says mike Jake Russo's sketchbooks are not in his room seven two four and there are CCTV pictures of you coming from that room who who is Jake Russo asks Greg suddenly he's not feeling very well an artist says mike his pictures sell for thousands of dollars and his sketchbooks sell for thousands too do you have them asks Mike no uh a girl has them says Greg what girl asks Mike a girl with green eyes says Greg and he tells Mike about Cassie and her stepfather but it's not true says mike when Greg finishes speaking Jake Russo doesn't have a wife or a stepdaughter you have to find that girl and get the sketchbooks Greg and you have to do it before the police find you Greg walks home to his one-room apartment how am I going to find her he thinks she has Jake Russo's sketchbooks now so she's not going to meet me again is she going to sell them for a lot of money there is a police car in the street next to Greg's apartment oh no he thinks they're waiting for me I can't get into my apartment now that night Greg sleeps on a train in the subway but early the next morning hey you says a man he's the subway cleaner get up you can't sleep here all day sorry says Greg people are arriving to get their trains now one of them stops and looks at a photograph in his newspaper and then at Greg it's him thinks the man it's the young man in the newspaper photograph the police are looking for him suddenly Greg sees the man looking at him and he sees his picture on the front of the man's newspaper I have to get out of here quickly he thinks the man with the newspaper finds a policeman it's him he tells the policeman the hotel porter hey you the policeman calls to Greg Greg runs stop calls the policeman Greg doesn't stop I have to get out of this uniform thanks Greg people know I'm the porter maybe Mike can give me something different to wear when he gets to Mike's apartment Mike opens the door I need something to wear Greg tells him I can't go back to my apartment my pictures in the newspaper and yes I know says mike it's okay come in way as the girl asks Mike do you know says Greg what can you remember about her says mike there must be something to help you find her yes Greg says suddenly her key a key to a room in the Dolphin Hotel it's a small cheap hotel near 42nd Street she must be staying there what's the time nearly nine o'clock says mike maybe she's there now says Greg I have to go thanks Mike 20 minutes later Greg is near the Dolphin Hotel am I too late he thinks suddenly Greg sees Cassie come out of the hotel Cassie he calls wait I have to talk to you Cassie sees him but she doesn't stop there is a car waiting for her she says something to the driver and gets into it quickly oh no says Greg Pierre 83.

says an old man in the street Greg looks at him what the girl is going to here 83. West 42nd Street for the circle line boat says the old man Greg smiles thanks he says and he begins to run Greg runs all the way to Pier 83.