A thirteen-year-old Australian boy on vacation in England gets a key to a room that existed during World War II but no longer does.
He didn’t seem to fit in at all well with the modern decor of the place, but I got the key from him and went towards the lift.

Variants

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  1. “Room 409” by Nance Donkin, in A Handful of Ghosts: Thirteen Eerie Tales by Australian Authors, edited by Barbara Ker Wilson (Knight Books, 1976).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Nance Donkin